Educator Resources
Distance Learning
Spring 2020 brought significant changes in instruction and support for students with significant disabilities. Project Success developed resources to support innovative instruction and help you meet the unique challenges of providing online instruction and support for students with significant disabilities.
Activities for Teaching Employability, Transition, & Life Skills
The guidance document Activities for Teaching Employability, Transition, and Life Skills provides activities to teach during distance learning to students with significant intellectual disabilities.
Best Practices in Employability, Transition & Life Skills for Distance Learning
The guidance document Best Practices in Employability, Transition, and Life Skills for Distance Learning provides strategies and considerations for transition-age students with significant intellectual disabilities.
Choice Board for Independent Living Skills
The Project Success Choice Board for Independent Living Skills is a collection of activities for independent living skills, which can be used for student self-selection.
Choice Board for Post-Secondary Transition Skills
The Project Success Choice Board for Post-Secondary Skills is a collection of activities for post-secondary skills, which can be used for student self-selection.
Choice Board for Transition Skills
The Project Success Choice Board for Transition Skills is a collection of lesson plan ideas, which can be used for student self-selection.
Considerations for Supporting Families During Distance Learning
The guidance document Considerations for Supporting Families During Distance Learning provides considerations and guiding questions for teachers and/or paraprofessionals to ask families to identify distance learning needs, as well as coordinate what is working well and areas of difficulty.
Considerations for Supporting Families in Fall 2020
Guidance document to prepare for fall 2020.
Data Collection Template Preparing for Fall 2020
Guidance document to prepare for fall 2020.
Lesson Plan Template with Distance Learning Considerations
Guidance document to prepare for fall 2020.
Guidance document to prepare for fall 2020.
A template to help teams organize and plan for developing a scope and sequence for content areas.
The Project Success Skill Matrix is a tool to align a student’s goal and generalize across multiple subjects, such as reading, science, math, transition, and home practice.
Summer Choice Boards
The Project Success Summer Choice Boards include ideas and activities for students with significant intellectual disabilities. The choice boards are aligned to include home activities, literacy, mathematics, and movement. You may consider adding visual or student learning objectives. Select the choice board example for your student grade level: Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12.
Supporting Students with Significant Disabilities during Virtual and Hybrid Instruction
(45 Min)
Project Success and Teacher Leaders share ideas to support students with significant disabilities during virtual and hybrid instruction. Listen to a panel of educators share their challenges, successes, and lessons learned as schools moved to virtual and hybrid instruction due to COVID-19.
Template Preparing for Fall 2020
Guidance document to prepare for fall 2020.
Resource Tutorials:
Mystery Science with Mystery Doug Website - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, shares the website, Mystery Science with Mystery Doug. Free full science lessons through June 2020 and free mini science lessons throughout the year.
Edpuzzle - Uploading a Video - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, shares the website Edpuzzle and models how to upload a video.
Edpuzzle - Adding Questions - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, shares the website Edpuzzle and how to add questions inside the video.
Making a Digital Choice Board - Cara Westerman, New Palestine High School, shares how to make a digital choice board and includes an example of a life skills choice board.
Using the Special Needs for Special Kids Website - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, shares the website, Special Needs for Special Kids.
Using the Tar Heel Reader Website - Teacher Video Tutorial: Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, shares the website, Tar Heel Reader. Tar Heel Reader is a free resource to create and share books.
Strategy Tutorials:
Adding Audio to Google Slides - Sarah Emmert, Manchester Elementary, models adding audio to Google Slides for a lesson using News 2 You.
Creating a Homepage with Links - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, models how to create a homepage with links for a distance learning lesson plan, using Google Slides.
Interactive Worksheet Using Google Slide - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, models how to develop an interactive worksheet using Google Slides.
Errorless Learning Using Google Slides - Anna Findley, Greenfield Central Junior High School, models how to practice errorless learning using Google Slides.
Creating an Interactive PDF - Sarah Emmert, Manchester Elementary, models how to create an interactive PDF and shares how to utilize it during distance learning instruction.
Utilizing Paraprofessionals to Support Distance Learning
The guidance document Utilizing Paraprofessionals to Support Distance Learning highlights ways paraprofessionals can support teachers during distance learning.
What Now? Strategies & Resources to Prepare for Fall 2020
The guidance document What Now? Strategies and Resources to Prepare for Fall 2020 include considerations and resources to support parent and family communication, data collection with colleagues, developing a scope and sequence, lesson planning, and instructional practices.
Useful Resources
Useful blogs and articles to support special education teachers, students, and families