Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them.Rita Pierson
You can use the list below as your checklist for Module 4. You can finish each item before you move into Module 5.
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You teach a roomful of students who arrived with different histories. Different supports. Different reasons to be there. The first three modules of SEC 507 taught you to plan, manage, and assess. You can use Module 4 to answer the harder question: for whom? Seifert Chapters 3 through 6 walk you through student development, cultural and linguistic diversity, the legal and instructional ground for IEPs and 504s, and the theories of motivation that explain why one student will do anything you ask and another will refuse. You can read Marzano Chapter 11 for the system-level view, and Burden & Byrd Chapters 12 and 13 for grading, reporting, and the collaboration you can build with colleagues and families.
You can draw on every chapter when you sit the Brown Bag Exam at the end of the module. The two graded projects (the Family & Community Involvement Plan and Analyzing Student Diversity) give you a place to work the ideas back into the room you are building.
You can read Piaget, Vygotsky, and Erikson to map the developmental ground a high schooler is standing on. You can use the map to see where your pacing matches a learner, and where the lesson asks for neural hardware that is still under construction.
You can study how cultural background and home language shape what a student brings to your subject. The chapter on diversity will give you the moves you can use with an English learner, a culturally distant student, and a student whose social class differs from your own.
You can read the legal ground for an IEP and a 504, then translate the plan into your lesson. You can distinguish an accommodation from a modification and name the supports you will build into a Tuesday class without flattening the lesson.
You can apply self-efficacy, expectancy-value, attribution, and self-determination theory to the question of why one student tries and another withdraws. You can use the motivation chapter to name the moves that build effort into a routine task.
You can carry the questions below with you across the readings and the two graded projects. You can return to them when you write the Family & Community Involvement Plan and the Analyzing Student Diversity assignment.
You can read each chapter before you open the matching tab on this page. The annotation under each card names the focus and the assignment connection.
The row below previews the theorists you will meet across the Module 4 chapters. You can return to the full theorist gallery inside the Seifert chapter tabs.
Each objective is tagged with the SEC 507 Course Learning Objective (CLO) it addresses.
By the end of Module 4 you will be able to:
You can design a year-long family-and-community-involvement plan for the content area and grade band you teach. Your plan names how you can communicate with families across the year, how you can invite community knowledge into your classroom, and how you can build a two-way information channel that survives the busy weeks.
1. A year-at-a-glance schedule with at least six family-facing touchpoints (positive contact, conferences, written updates, community events).
2. A communication plan for each touchpoint: who you contact, what you share, what response you ask for, and how you record the exchange.
3. Three community-knowledge moves that bring family or community expertise into the curriculum (interview projects, guest experts, neighborhood inquiries).
You can analyze the diversity profile of a real or composite secondary classroom and design a differentiated lesson plan that responds to it. Your analysis should name the cognitive, linguistic, cultural, and special-needs profiles in the room and connect each profile to a specific instructional adaptation.
1. A diversity profile of a class of 25 to 30 students. Include cognitive style range, English-learner counts, IEP and 504 counts with categories, and cultural and linguistic background notes.
2. A differentiated lesson plan that addresses each profile with specific moves (content, process, product, environment).
3. A reflection (one page) on which adaptations require the most planning time, and how you can build them into your normal weekly routine.
The Module 4 capstone is a take-home exam that synthesizes Seifert 3–6, Marzano 11, and Burden & Byrd 12–13. The exam asks you to read three brief case studies and respond as a teacher who can name the relevant theory, propose an instructional move, and defend the move in front of a hypothetical parent or administrator.
1. Three case-study responses, each 600 to 800 words, that diagnose the situation and propose an instructional response.
2. A theory tag on each response that names the developmental, motivational, or system-level concept driving your move.
3. A short rationale (200 words) that you can present to a parent or administrator who asks why you chose that response.
| Criterion | Pts | Top | Mid | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theory Application | 60 | Each case names the precise theory and uses its specific terminology to diagnose the situation. | Theory named but applied loosely. 42 | Theory missing or generic. 24 |
| Instructional Move | 60 | Each move is specific, plausible in a secondary classroom, and clearly tied to the diagnosed problem. | Move plausible but not tightly tied to the diagnosis. 42 | Move generic or untied to the case. 24 |
| Stakeholder Rationale | 40 | Rationale is parent-ready: clear, free of jargon, grounded in evidence, and respectful of the audience. | Rationale present but technical or defensive. 28 | Rationale missing or condescending. 16 |
| Writing & Documentation | 40 | Each response is well-organized, mechanically clean, and cites the relevant chapter and page. | Organization clear but citations spotty. 28 | Disorganized or uncited. 16 |
You have spent four weeks studying who your students are. The Module 4 chapters give you the language for development, diversity, special needs, motivation, and the school system that wraps around all of it. Before you submit the Brown Bag Exam, take ten minutes with the prompt below.
You can use this reflection inside your Brown Bag Exam responses if it helps you ground a case study in lived experience.
Click the card to flip. Mark Got it or Review again.
The IEP needs to be read before the next class meeting. Every IEP. Every 504. The legal obligation rests on you, not on the case manager. The notes that follow your reading should focus on accommodations that affect your subject specifically.
A free translator will get you the gist. Your reply goes back in English with a parallel translation, and the reply offers a phone call with the school's bilingual staff or a translation service. The acknowledgment should land within 24 hours, even when the translation takes longer.
The teacher names the strategy, not the trait. "You are not bad at this. You used a strategy that did not work for this problem. Here is the one that does, and here is what you have already done that lines up with it." The script repeats for every instance until the student internalizes it.
Yes, with the parent who shares legal custody and consent. Stick to your part of the plan. For questions outside your part, route to the case manager. Keep the conversation on what the student is doing in your room.
Module 5 splits into four content-area pathways. You can pick the pathway that matches your teaching licensure and build a culminating unit plan in your discipline. The work in Module 4 (especially Analyzing Student Diversity and the Family & Community Involvement Plan) becomes the differentiation section of your Module 5 unit plan.
Student Development. Chapter 3 covers physical, cognitive, social, moral, and identity development from early childhood through adolescence – the developmental ground that shapes how high schoolers learn.
Adolescents in the same fifth-period section are not at the same developmental address. One student is reasoning hypothetically about a poem and another is still anchored to the concrete details on the page. One has a settled sense of who they are at school. The next one is reinventing themselves between Tuesday and Friday. Seifert and Sutton lay out the developmental ground so the differences in your room stop reading as "good students and bad students" and start reading as predictable variation.
The content in this chapter establishes the foundation for the rest of Module 4. Diversity, special needs, and motivation all build on top of development. If you misread a developmental difference as a deficit, every later decision you make about that learner is off.
For VT 6, you describe one student who challenges your teaching. Use Piaget and Vygotsky to frame what the student can do alone and what they could do with the right scaffold. The challenge is rarely "they cannot." It is usually "the gap between alone and supported is wider than my current lesson assumes."
For the Brown Bag Exam, expect prompts on developmental stages and their classroom implications. For VT 7 (Reflective Practitioner), notice which developmental assumption you keep making by default. Most of us teach to the developmental level we were at when we first loved the subject. That is not always where our students are.
Tap a card. The cards work as quick referents when you place a student moment inside a developmental theory.
Adolescent development is not a checklist of milestones the student will hit on their own. The student is doing the work in your room, on your schedule, in your subject. The room is part of the development.
Sketch your answer before you peek. Then check it against ours.
Adolescents are still building the prefrontal architecture that handles planning, impulse control, and risk assessment. Your "they should know better" is asking neural hardware that is still under construction. Build the scaffold for the planning. Do not assume it.
One student is the case study. Where are they in Erikson's identity vs. role confusion stage? What in your classroom supports the work?
This is the first crisis. Caregivers who respond consistently to needs build the foundation for trust in the wider world.
"Me do it." Children develop a sense of personal control or feel ashamed of their own efforts.
Children take initiative or feel guilty about asserting themselves.
Children develop a sense of competence or feel inferior to peers.
The work of your students. Adolescents work out who they are by trying on roles, identities, friendships, and beliefs.
Forming close, lasting relationships or staying isolated.
Contributing to the next generation or feeling stagnant.
Reflecting on life with integrity or despairing over missed opportunities.
Student Diversity. Chapter 4 covers individual styles of learning and thinking, multiple intelligences, gender, cultural and ethnic differences, and accommodating diversity in practice.
Diversity is not an add-on. It is the baseline. Seifert and Sutton open with a distinction that matters: some differences are individual (one student processes images faster than another) and some are group-based (gender, culture, language). Both shape how a student walks into your class, and both shape how they show what they know.
You can use this chapter as the source for the Analyzing Student Diversity assignment and the framing for the Family & Community Involvement Plan.
The Analyzing Student Diversity assignment asks you to look at your students and describe what is in the room. Use this chapter as the lens. Name the dimensions of diversity you see, then name the instructional moves you already make and the ones you have not made yet.
For the Family & Community Involvement Plan, the section on cultural and language differences is where your plan either lives or dies. A plan that sends English-only newsletters home to bilingual families is not a plan. For VT 6, the "student who challenges your teaching" almost always sits at an intersection of these dimensions. Name the intersection.
Color-blind framings sound generous and act otherwise. They erase the lived realities students bring to the room and they let routines that disadvantage some students go unexamined. Seeing color is the work.
Sketch the harm. Then check.
The phrase claims neutrality while preserving a default that is anything but neutral. It denies students the cultural knowledge they bring, it blocks honest conversations about bias, and it lets discipline patterns, curricular choices, and assessment routines that fall hardest on students of color stay invisible. You cannot fix what you refuse to see.
One cultural assumption embedded in a routine you use daily is the candidate. Does it serve every student?
You can use this chapter as the lens for the Analyzing Student Diversity assignment. Your roster, open in front of you, gives you the case material. The notes that follow should name the dimensions of diversity you see, the moves you already make, and the moves you have not made yet.
Open the assignmentA classroom that claims to see no color also fails to see the student.Course note adapted from Seifert & Sutton, Ch 4
The student in your room is also in a family, a school, a community, a culture, and a moment in history. The rings load from the outside in.
Students with Special Educational Needs. Chapter 5 covers categories of disability, IDEA and the IEP process, accommodations and modifications, and how special education law shapes everyday teaching.
You will have students with disabilities. The legal framework is not optional, and the instructional decisions that flow from it are part of your job from day one. Seifert and Sutton trace the legal scaffolding (Section 504, ADA, IDEA), then walk through what those laws change in your classroom.
The chapter also pushes back on a common misread. An IEP is not a document special education does to you. It is a plan you help write and a plan you implement.
The Brown Bag Exam will press on the accommodation-versus-modification distinction. Get it cold. Read every IEP for every student on your roster, then write a one-line plan for how you can deliver each accommodation in the lessons you have already planned. If you cannot describe the move in one sentence, the accommodation is not yet implemented.
For the Family & Community Involvement Plan, special-education families have often had hard meetings with schools. Plan your first contact to be positive and specific to their child. For VT 6, if your challenging student has an IEP, describe the gap between what the IEP says and what you are doing. Then describe how you close it.
An accommodation changes how a student accesses the curriculum without changing the standard. A modification changes the standard itself. Sort each item. Click Check when you are done.
One IEP, opened this week, is the case material. One accommodation from that IEP, translated into a specific change in tomorrow's lesson plan and written into the plan rather than the margin, is the work for tonight. The accommodation that lives in the lesson plan is the one that gets delivered.
You can draft an answer first, then check it against the chapter.
Teachers reduce the cognitive demand and call it an accommodation. Cutting the number of problems in half so the student finishes the worksheet is fine when the goal is endurance. It becomes a modification the moment you also drop the level of thinking the student is asked to do. Same standard, different path is the line. Lower standard is a different conversation, and it has to be documented.
One IEP you have access to is the case material. The work: one accommodation translated into a specific change you can make tomorrow.
Eight items. Work through your own roster and your own lesson-plan template. Honest answers only.
One IEP accommodation, four implementations. The first three preserve the standard; the last one quietly modifies it.
IEP line: "Extended time on classroom assessments (1.5x)."
Plan A: Same test, same prompt, 1.5x time, same room.
Plan B: Same test, same prompt, 1.5x time, separate quiet room.
Plan C: Same test, same prompt, 1.5x time, choice of in-class or pulled-out testing.
Plan D: Half the questions, full time, in-class.
Same standard, same expectation, same rubric. The student gets the additional time the IEP authorizes. Document it.
Quiet room is a separate accommodation many students with extended time also benefit from. Confirm with the case manager whether it is on the plan.
The student picks what works that day. Self-determination grows when the choice carries weight. The teacher documents the choice in the testing log.
Reducing the number of questions changes the standard, not the path. The IEP did not authorize a modification. Plan D is non-compliant. Pick A, B, or C.
Accommodations and modifications are not extras tacked on after the lesson is built. They are part of planning. Module 2 (Seifert Ch 10) is where this lives in the plan template.
Student Motivation. Chapter 6 covers motives as behaviors, goals, interests, attributions, expectancy and self-efficacy, and self-determination – the difference between students who try and students who don't.
The student who shrugs and says "I don't care" almost always cares about something. Motivation is not a fixed quantity students arrive with. It shifts with the goals they set, the beliefs they hold about success and failure, and what they expect from the next attempt. Seifert and Sutton walk through six lenses on motivation, then converge on expectancy-value theory as a way to integrate them.
For students with diverse backgrounds and learning needs, motivation is not a separate topic. It is bound to whether your classroom is a place they expect to succeed.
For VT 6, motivation is the layer underneath whatever surface behavior the student is showing. Frame your challenging student in terms of expectancy and value. Are they predicting failure? Do they see no value in the task? Both lead to the same shrug.
For the Brown Bag Exam, you should be able to match a teacher move (offering a choice of topic, giving feedback that names a strategy, breaking a long task into stages) to the motivation theory that explains why it works. For VT 7, the question lands on which of your students you most often attribute failure to with "they just do not try." That attribution carries cost for the student and for your teaching. The next move is the strategy-and-effort reframe.
Click two tiles. If they match, they stay open.
The theory first, then the move it suggests.
Attribution theory. The student is attributing failure to fixed ability, which kills future effort. Your response is to relocate the cause to strategy and effort. "Tell me how you set up that problem" pulls the student into the process. "That step right there is the move that worked. Use it again on the next one" names the strategy. You are not arguing with the feeling. You are giving the student a different story about cause.
One student whose motivation has dropped is the case study. Which theoretical lens fits best, and what move does the lens suggest?
"Strong work" is air. "You set up the equation by isolating the variable first, and that is what made the rest line up" is fuel. Specific naming builds self-efficacy because it gives the student a story about why the work succeeded.
Autonomy does not require redesigning the curriculum. It can live in which prompt, which partner, which order, which format. Small choices, every day, add up to a room where students feel like agents.
Expectancy-value does not move on hype. It moves when the student sees the link from this assignment to something they already care about. The teacher asks, listens, and then builds the bridge in plain language.
The teacher shows her own thinking when she gets stuck. Student work that started rough and got better goes on display alongside the polished pieces. Struggle that stays hidden becomes evidence the student should not be in the room; struggle that the room sees becomes part of the work itself.
"You worked hard" without a strategy named is hollow. "You tried three approaches before this one worked, and the third one is the one to remember" gives the student something portable. Effort plus strategy is the package.
Relatedness is not a vibe. The room can be structured so the student has a role, a partner, and a reason to show up. Disengagement is often the absence of a place to land. The structure provides one.
The motivation theories in this chapter sit at the center of the Brown Bag Exam. Practice matching a teacher move to the theory that explains why it works. The exam rewards the move plus the reason.
Open the assignmentPerformance peaks at moderate arousal. Too little, you stall. Too much, you collapse. Drag the slider.
Making System Changes. Marzano's final chapter steps back from individual lessons and asks what schools have to change so that every teacher can reach every learner. For Module 4 it is the system-level lens on the same question Seifert keeps asking: how does a school serve students who do not all show up the same way?
Differentiation, accommodations, and motivation work happen one classroom at a time. They also fail one classroom at a time, because individual teachers cannot fix scheduling, grading, or curriculum on their own. Marzano lays out the system levers (unit design, online resources, cognitive and metacognitive skill instruction, report cards, scheduling) that decide whether your individual moves add up.
For your own students with diverse needs, the system either backs you up or makes you push uphill.
For the Family & Community Involvement Plan, the report-card section is where this chapter lands hardest. If your school sends home a single letter grade, families of struggling learners get almost no information. Plan supplemental communication that reports against specific standards and names what the next step looks like.
For the Brown Bag Exam, you should be able to argue why a system change matters more than any single teacher's heroics. For VT 7 (Reflective Practitioner), name one system feature in your school that pushes against the differentiation you want to do. You are not going to fix it this semester. Naming it is the first move.
What is one school-level structure that would change your classroom for the better? What is one classroom-level move you control today?
System change is slow. Your seating chart, your grouping decisions, your call-on patterns, and your feedback language are not. Pick one of those four to audit this week. The aggregate of small classroom-level moves is what students experience as the system.
Grading Systems, Marking, and Reporting. The chapter walks through what grades communicate, who they communicate to, and how to design a grading system that is fair across the diversity of learners in your class.
Grades are the place where instructional decisions for diverse learners either hold up or collapse. You can accommodate beautifully all semester and then put a single number on a report card that erases the whole story. Burden and Byrd push you to separate achievement from behavior, design composite scores that mean something, and report progress in a way families can act on (Burden & Byrd, Effective Teaching Methods).
For families across language and access barriers, a grade with no context is worse than no grade at all.
For the Brown Bag Exam, expect questions on accommodations and grading. A student with extended time on tests does not get a different grade. They get the same grade calculated from a fairly administered assessment. Holding that line matters.
For the Family & Community Involvement Plan, this chapter is the source for your "how grades work" communication. Families need to know what the marks represent, how they are calculated, and what to do when their child is behind. For VT 7, ask which of your grading practices punish students for things outside the achievement standard. Late penalties, participation points, and zero policies all sit in this question.
Collaborating with Colleagues and Families. The chapter covers working with other teachers and school professionals, contacting and communicating with families, and adapting both across cultural and language differences.
You will not meet the needs of every learner in your room by yourself. Burden and Byrd open with a one-room-schoolhouse image to make the point: teaching has not been a solo job for a long time, and pretending it is leaves students unsupported. Counselors, special-education teachers, reading specialists, and families are part of the instructional team for the students in your class (Burden & Byrd, Effective Teaching Methods).
This is the textbook anchor for the Family & Community Involvement Plan.
The Family & Community Involvement Plan (100 points) is a direct application of this chapter. Build the plan from the barriers you expect to face: families who work two jobs, families whose first language is not English, families who learned to fear school. Name each barrier, then name the channel and the timing that breaks through it.
For the Brown Bag Exam, hold onto the distinction between communicating to families (one-way, easy) and collaborating with families (two-way, harder, more useful). For VT 7, look back on a parent contact you have already made or watched. Where did it lean toward one-way reporting? What would two-way look like next time?
A draft plan you can hand to a colleague tomorrow is the goal here. Progress saves in this browser only.
Walkthroughs of the Module 4 chapters. You can watch a walkthrough before you read the chapter, alongside the chapter, or after, depending on what helps you process. You can carry one sentence per video that connects something in the video to a specific point in the chapter, and you can use those sentences in your Family & Community Involvement Plan, your Analyzing Student Diversity assignment, or the Brown Bag Exam.
Each walkthrough points you at where to focus inside the chapter and connects the reading to the Module 4 assignments and the Brown Bag Exam.
Scenarios. Branching scenarios let you walk through differentiation calls, an accommodation-vs-modification choice, an IEP-meeting moment, and a motivation intervention. Each one ends with the chapter content the choice maps back to.
A student in your class has an IEP. The plan calls for "extended time on assessments." Your unit summative is a timed in-class essay. The team will discuss this at the next IEP meeting. You have the essay scheduled for Friday.
Friday is three days out. What do you do?
You hand the student the same prompt with double the clock. Now think about paper trail. What do you log?
You shorten the prompt and lower the page count for the student. The student finishes in the standard window.
You email the case manager Wednesday afternoon to confirm an alternate assessment is on the table.
Seifert Ch 5 and Burden & Byrd Ch 12: extended time is an accommodation. Same expectations, same rubric, same content. Documenting that you provided the IEP-required accommodation protects the student and you.
Defensible only if the IEP authorizes alternate assessments. If not, you are unilaterally modifying the curriculum. Talk to the case manager before Friday and document the agreement, otherwise run the accommodation as written.
You modified the curriculum, which is not what the IEP authorized. Seifert Ch 5: modification changes the expectation, accommodation changes the path. The student deserved the accommodation. You replaced it with a modification.
A student who used to participate has stopped doing homework. Their grades are slipping from B to D. They sit at the back, head down, when they show up. They are not disrespectful, they are absent in the room. The motivation chapter (Seifert Ch 6) gives you several lenses.
You have a five-minute window after class. What do you say first?
The student nods, says "ok," and walks out. Nothing changes the next week.
The student starts talking. What are you listening for?
You hand them a shorter assignment and tell them this one is easier so they can get back on track.
Seifert Ch 6: motivation problems usually have a cause, not a character flaw. Listen for shifts in family, peer, health, or workload. Self-determination theory: students need autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Find which one collapsed and rebuild it.
Seifert Ch 6 (self-efficacy): small wins help. The risk is communicating that you no longer believe in their full capacity. Pair the easier task with a clear plan for ramping back to grade-level work.
You named the gap and put the burden on the student. Seifert Ch 6 (attribution theory): the student probably attributes the slide to forces outside their control. Telling them to "apply themselves" reads as ignoring the cause.
You teach a tenth grader whose family speaks Spanish at home. The student is doing fine. You want to invite the family into the classroom community early in the semester. The school does not have a translation service for routine communications.
Your first newsletter goes out Monday. How do you reach the family?
The newsletter goes home. You hear nothing back for six weeks.
The family replies and asks about the parent-teacher conference in October. What do you do for the meeting itself?
The parent is polite, the call is short, and you sense the message did not land.
Burden & Byrd Ch 13: language accessibility is a structural commitment, not a one-time gesture. Pair the translated newsletter with an offer the family can act on. For the conference, request an interpreter through the school office or, if unavailable, a bilingual colleague who can sit in.
If you sent the English-only newsletter: Burden & Byrd Ch 13 and Seifert Ch 4 read this as offloading an adult communication onto a tenth-grader. The translation is unreliable, and you signaled the family is your secondary audience. Translation tools take five minutes. Using them is the minimum. If you spoke slowly in English: speaking slowly does not bridge a language gap. It signals you assume the family member is not fluent rather than the school has not made language access available. Respect for families includes meeting them where they are linguistically.
Self-Check. A short fill-in-the-blank review of the key terms and ideas from Module 4 readings. Use this as a warm-up before the Brown Bag Exam, the Family & Community Involvement Plan, and the Analyzing Student Diversity assignment.
Type the term that fits. Tab between blanks. Hit Check when you are done. Synonyms accepted where they fit.
1. The federal special-education law guaranteeing FAPE in the LRE is .
2. The civil-rights statute that prohibits disability discrimination in federally funded schools is Section .
3. The legally binding plan written for a student under IDEA is the .
4. A change to how a student accesses content without changing the standard is an .
5. A change to what a student is expected to learn or demonstrate is a .
6. The IDEA requirement that students be educated alongside non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate is the .
7. Howard Gardner's theory that intelligence comes in at least eight forms is .
8. Motivation that comes from within the activity itself, not from external rewards, is .
9. A student's belief in their capacity to succeed at a specific task is .
10. Weiner's framework for explaining how students assign causes to outcomes is .
11. Vygotsky's gap between independent and assisted performance is the .
12. The motivation framework arguing that motivation depends on perceived value times perceived likelihood of success is .
13. Deci and Ryan's three innate psychological needs are autonomy, competence, and .
Everything below is optional. The links go to authoritative sites on differentiation, Universal Design for Learning, and special education resources.
This is the canonical UDL framework. It rests on three principles (engagement, representation, action and expression), each with checkpoints and classroom examples. The framework is the design lens for the differentiation criterion in the Lesson Plan Assignment.
You will find the parent organization behind UDL here, along with research papers, examples, and tools for educators who want to design instruction that works for the widest range of learners from the start.
This is the clearest practical book on differentiation. Tomlinson's framework (content, process, product, learning environment) is the four-axis tool for embedding differentiation into a lesson body.
Carol Ann Tomlinson · ASCDEducational Leadership issues on differentiation across content areas and grade levels. Useful when you want examples beyond the Tomlinson book.
Free, peer-reviewed modules covering specific disabilities, IEP and 504 procedures, evidence-based interventions, and accommodation strategies. Each module is a one-hour case-based unit. The most useful single resource on the open web for new teachers.
Plain-language resources on learning differences, ADHD, and dyslexia, written for both educators and families. Useful for the family-communication portion of the Family & Community Involvement Plan.