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Educator
Peoria, AZ, United States

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Sep. 13, 2011

It's another school year and the other day I got to work with a great teacher who works with students with learning disabilities, as well as Tier II and III students in our RtI model. 

I was helping her learn how to use her new interactive whiteboard and we began talking about some of her students who struggle with fractions, which led to a trip to...

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May. 4, 2011

All right everybody, time to put yourself in the position of a student with a disability.   Imagine you are a bright, motivated student with physical disabilities so that the only thing you can do is move your head or eyes.  How will you access the materials used to develop conceptual understanding in math?  How will you use standard tools for completing procedures and recording...

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Apr. 6, 2011

Today I got the pleasure of working with an 8th grade girl who uses head pointing technology to access her communication device, and through a Bluetooth connection, she can also control her computer.  Today we worked on enhancing her access to the Conceptua Fractions materials.
It took a little while, but we were able to optimize a page on her communication device to do some really...

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