Teaching people who learn differently.
8 topics · 8 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
A Guide to the Individualized Education Program
US Department of Education · 2000
Walks parents and teachers through what an IEP legally must contain, arguing the document only works as intended when it is treated as an…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
The Three Ring Conception of Giftedness: A Developmental Model for Creative Productivity
Joseph S. Renzulli · 1984
Redefines giftedness as the overlap of above-average ability, creativity and task commitment rather than a single IQ threshold, and works through the…
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8 works
US Department of Education
Walks parents and teachers through what an IEP legally must contain, arguing the document only works as intended when it is treated as an individually negotiated plan rather than a compliance form.
link checked 17 Sept 2026US Department of Education
Sets out classroom accommodations and instructional strategies for ADHD grounded in the legal requirements of IDEA and Section 504, arguing most useful accommodations are inexpensive changes to routine rather than specialist intervention.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Russell Gersten et al.
Sets out five evidence-graded recommendations for screening struggling readers early and layering increasingly intensive, structured intervention, rather than waiting for a child to fail far enough behind to qualify for special education.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Center for Learning Disabilities
Documents that one in five American students has a learning or attention disability, and that most go unidentified for years while being blamed for effort rather than accommodated.
link checked 17 Sept 2026CAST
Sets out a framework for building multiple means of engagement, representation and action into a lesson from the start, on the argument that redesigning for disabled learners improves the lesson for everyone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Joseph S. Renzulli
Redefines giftedness as the overlap of above-average ability, creativity and task commitment rather than a single IQ threshold, and works through the objections practitioners raise against it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026UNESCO
Declares that regular schools with an inclusive orientation are the most effective way to combat discrimination and educate the majority of children with disabilities, reframing inclusion as the default rather than the exception.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice
Catalogues which classroom interventions for autistic students have controlled-trial evidence behind them, finding the evidence base is uneven across the practices most widely used in schools.
link checked 17 Sept 2026