Enjoy the variety of content from our Practitioners.
Title | Speaker | Description | Length | Year | Video Link |
| Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms Part 1 | Chris Perry | While many teachers strive to meet the needs of all their learners, determining which specific strategies to use can be a challenging task. This is made even more challenging because evidence-based recommendations from various educational specialties do not always overlap, and can even contradict each other. In this interactive session, participants will be walked through a framework for how to select and incorporate best-practices from various educational fields into a comprehensive classroom environmental model. | 57 minutes | 2023 | |
| Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms Part 2 | Chris Perry | While many teachers strive to meet the needs of all their learners, determining which specific strategies to use can be a challenging task. This is made even more challenging because evidence-based recommendations from various educational specialties do not always overlap, and can even contradict each other. In this interactive session, participants will be walked through a framework for how to select and incorporate best-practices from various educational fields into a comprehensive classroom environmental model. | 55 minutes | 2023 | |
| Text to Speech: The What, Why & Who | Christina Kerr | In this session you will learn what is text to speech, why you should use text to speech with students and who can benefit from it. | 10 minutes | 2024 | |
| Considering Text to Speech: Setting the Stage for Tool Selection | Christina Kerr | In this session you will learn about the SETT framework and the importance of considering the student, environment and tasks before choosing a text to speech tool. | 14 minutes | 2024 | |
| Using the uPAR/PAR to Gather Data for Considering Text to Speech for Students | Christina Kerr | In this Session you will learn what is the uPAR/PAR, the basics of how to administer it and how to interpret the results. | 25 minutes | 2024 | |
| Selecting Text to Speech Tools to Meet Your Students' Needs | Christina Kerr | In this session you will learn about some of the most common differences between text to speech tools and learn about accessible for Inaccessible text. Included in the slides will be additional videos on some of the most commonly used text to speech tools that can be explored. | 23 minutes | 2024 | |
| Ideas for Getting Started with Text to Speech | Christina Kerr | You have selected a text to speech tool, now what do you do? In this video a few ideas for getting started with using Text-to-Speech in the classroom will be shared. | 11 minutes | 2024 | |
| UDL and Co-Teaching - A Winning Combination | Lisa Renz, Kelly Ackerman, Andrea Wichers | Are you curious about how to maximize student success and engagement in inclusive classrooms? Join us for a dynamic session on "UDL and Co-Teaching: A Winning Combination"! In this session, we will explore the powerful synergy between Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and co-teaching, two innovative and research-based approaches to inclusive education. Participants will explore the steps to unit planning, implementation, and evaluation for student impact. Learn why collaborative, supportive and consistent relationships provide a platform for problem solving. | 1 hour 1 minute | 2024 | |
| Book Creator | Michelle Butler | Book Creator is used to foster communication and self-expression with students. The Book Creator app allows students to capture videos, add audio, and include text to share their passions and high interests in a meaningful way. By incorporating their favorite topics, students stay engaged while developing important digital literacy and storytelling skills. This video highlights how Book Creator can be a valuable tool for engaging students in high-interest activities while focusing on communication, creativity, language, and literacy. | 7 minutes | 2025 | |
| Language Learners in the Co-Taught Classroom - Scaffolding for Success | Christi Clayton | Wondering how to engage language learners in the co-taught classroom? Join us for an informative session where we will explore practical, research-based strategies for effectively integrating language support within content instruction. This session will focus on how to scaffold instruction in a co-teaching environment to ensure that students are actively engaged and supported in mastering both language and academic content. You’ll walk away with resources and strategies to enhance student participation, understanding, and achievement in your co-taught classroom. | 50 minutes | 2025 | |
| Breaking Barriers - Free and Built-In Tools for Reading and Writing | Joy Brown, Kim Leaf | Discover how to break down barriers to learning with free and built-in accessibility tools for reading and writing. In this session, we'll explore powerful, cost-free alternatives to expensive subscription-based programs. We will focus on practical solutions widely available on devices your students use every day. Learn how to leverage these tools to support diverse learning needs, foster independence, and improve outcomes without breaking the budget. | 38 minutes | 2025 | |
| Indirect Support for Staff, Just QR It! | Andrea Wichers | Andrea shares how using a QR code to record directions for common activites or routines can support staff and families when you cannot give information in person. She shares some examples of how she uses the QR code with students and staff she is currently supporting. Even though her examples are specific to AAC devices, this practice can be implemented across all settings and grade levels. | 9 minutes | 2026 | |
| Effective Communication Strategies for Classroom Teachers | Shelly Harden | Shelly discusses the impact of communication skills on teaching and offers strategies for more effective communication with students. She covers the importance of communication, reducing vocal strain, classroom amplification systems, controlling noise, and self-care. | 23 minutes | 2026 | |
| Kami Overview | Laura Raad | Laura shares an overview of some of the tools available to support students using the Kami app. She demonstrates these tools with a worksheet. Laura also does a brief review of Kami Companion to demonstrate how it works on websites. | 10 minutes | 2026 | |
| Accessibility Tools to Support All Learners | Eric Curts | There are many tools, apps, extensions, and features available to assist all learners. In this session we take an in-depth hands-on look at a wide range of technology tools to assist any and all learners. These can include text-tospeech, speech-to-text, readability, reading comprehension, artificial intelligence tools, audio support, organization, focus, and more. Learn what tools are available and how to access and use these free tools with your students. | 1 hour 32 minutes | 2026 | |
| Level Up Every Learner with Hipster Tech Tools | Eric Curts | Technology tools are a powerful resource for educators that can be used to help all of our students. With technology we can provide personalized support for every learner with tutoring, enrichment, feedback, review, conversations, reflection, and accessibility. There are loads of smaller, lesser-known, but impressively powerful tech tools that can be used for teaching and learning. This session will highlight some of these gems, like Emoji Kitchen, Interview Warmup, Timelapse, Lens, AutoDraw, and more. In this keynote we will learn about the tools and techniques to help level up every learner and adapt to our changing roles as educators. | 1 hour 32 minutes | 2026
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