🌟 Just like the ramps around us that help everyone, the more universal design for learning we put into place in our #classrooms, the fewer special #accommodation and modifications we need to add later. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🧐 Are we manipulating #behavior with points and grades, or are we motivating with authentic #learning that builds on #students' strengths and interests? #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🙌 When we expect special education #teachers to spend significant time providing assignment or #homework help, we waste a valuable resource and opportunity to deliver intervention on critical skills. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL #RTI #TeacherTwitter

🚫 Not giving #students options for how they show their #learning introduces significant barriers to many. HOW you show your learning isn't the same as WHAT you learned. Giving only one way compromises the validity of our assessment. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #TeacherTwitter

📚 #Classroom #teachers tend to offer less help to a #student who has a 1-1 paraprofessional. This disrupts the #student-teacher relationship and belongingness with friends. There are better paraprofessional models. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL #SpecialEducation #TeacherTwitter

👩‍🏫 When #teachers request #students be pulled from their class, it's often due to lack of confidence that they can be successful in delivering what the #students need. Building capacity and self-efficacy in adults is as important as supporting students. #LeadInclusion

🌟 For #inclusion to really be successful, it has to be our mission, our ethos as a #school. And every #educator in the building must see themselves as a #teacher of ALL #students. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #Inclusion #TeacherTwitter

❌ Let's stop asking special #education #teachers to support assignments and instead give them the flexibility to support SKILLS. ❌ #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL #SuccessForAll #MasteryChat #GlobalEd #Inclusion #UDLchat #TeacherTwitter

🕺🕺🕺The way we deliver #intervention is identical, whether there is an #IEP or not. Research-based intervention for ANY #student who needs it. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🌞 To the extent that special #educators become #inclusion specialists who collaborate on instruction with #UDL, there will be less specially-designed instruction needed for individual #students. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDLchat #TeacherTwitter

💥 #Homework support ≠ intervention. Instead of asking special #education #teachers to assist with assignments and #homework, let's ask them to support SKILLS and deep UNDERSTANDING. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL #TeacherTwitter

Asking students about barriers they face in #assessment is the simplest way to find answers, plus it helps students understand themselves as learners. This graphic organizer from Lee Ann Jung, PhD's Assessing Students, Not Standards can facilitate reflection: ow.ly/xsjH50T1xR3

🎉 The success of #inclusion depends on what #classroom #teachers do, not only on what special education teachers do. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🚫 Attaching a paraprofessional as a shadow to a #student disrupts relationships with peers and teachers, makes it less likely their teacher will assist them, and promotes dependence. uvm.edu/sites/default/…… #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

🔍 #MTSS / #RTI is more about what we do in ALL #classrooms than intervention. RTI first means creating warm, #inclusive, welcoming environments that deliver the best instruction and respond with intervention when instruction isn't fully successful. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders

✳️ The primary purpose of classroom #assessment is to inform our #instruction, not to determine a grade. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #ATAssessment #TeacherTwitter

Read about the dangers of a “Velcro” approach to assigning a paraprofessional to a student: is.gd/eAp4QU We know we’re doing it better when we can walk into a room and not tell who the adult is there to support. #LeadInclusion #EdLeadership #teacher #TeachersofTwitter

🌈 Many of the strategies in the #UDL framework may make you think, “that’s just effective #teaching.” This is true! But the framework brings INTENTIONALITY to removing barriers in our instruction. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDLchat #TeacherTwitter

💔 Before trying to punish or eliminate a behavior, make sure to validate the #emotion. Emotional regulation isn't about getting rid of an emotion. It's about helping a #student manage it. Just changing the behavior may not accomplish that. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers

📊 Percentage #grades FEEL objective because they involve math. But a percentage doesn't communicate learning well and is no more objective than a teacher's judgment. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #ATAssessment #TeacherTwitter