Additional & Optional Resources

Foster the Relationship

As an administrator/facilitator you offer feedback, support, leadership and challenges to teachers. How you communicate with teachers can create trust or animosity, but true leadership stems from respectful communication. Click on this article to read about effective ways to communicate with and empower teachers.

Accommodation Central

Interested in learning more about how to choose and implement accommodations?  Access this user-friendly accommodations website with a "Learning Library" including articles on how select and teach students to use accommodations, among other pertinent topics. They also offer a database of accommodations, searchable by functional or academic need or specific keywords.

Accessibility on All Platforms

As you've seen in the Instructional Strategies Bank, there are unlimited ways to differentiate lessons and make curriculum more accessible to students, both with and without identified disabilities. Nowadays, technology companies are prioritizing these features in their products as well. Learn more about Windows and Mac accessibility tools and techniques in the resources below.

Mac users, read about Apple's suite of accesibility tools:

Windows users may view this short (30 minute) webinar on Microsoft accessibility features:

Tools in Action

Watch as two co-teachers discuss their experience using Student Compass/ClassView and Instructional Strategies Bank, and participate in an authentic lesson planning session [Runtime 7:21]