Resources

These resources were created and/or collected by Outreach staff to assist you in better understanding how to teach students with LBLD.

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  Summer Reading 2020: Race, Equity, and Inclusion

  The 2020 summer reading list was created by our high school librarian, Amy Veling, and inspired by the work of and conversations with Landmark’s Diversity and Inclusion Advocates, a group of faculty on campus that strives to recognize racial and cultural inequality and to help make sure that the school community embraces diversity and is

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  Adapting Elementary Math Instruction to the Online Classroom: Multimodal Strategies for Engagement

  By Avery McNiff Upon hearing that Massachusetts schools would remain closed beyond April 6th, I scrambled to recreate some semblance of a classroom in my home. I ordered a whiteboard, easel, Time Timer, math cubes, dry erase pockets, and a printer. When the items arrived, I excitedly set up my space as I do at

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  Bloom’s Taxonomy

  Explore these question starters that use Bloom’s Taxonomy as a way to effectively structure questions that both gauge and assess students’ level of understanding on a given topic.

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  Center for Online Learning and Students with Disabilities

  Explore the Center for Online Learning and Students with Disabilities website to gather resources and ideas for supporting students with disabilities in an online learning environment.

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  Equity by Design in Learning Technologies

  Listen to this podcast on equity by design in learning technologies. The podcast explores the challenges of remote and digital learning and how teachers can use technology to support all learners but particularly students with disabilities or other vulnerabilities.

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  Human Development and Learning

  Learn about the connection between human development and learning. This Edutopia video, which is part of a series called How Learning Happens, highlights the importance of the inclusion of social emotional learning into the school landscape with a focus on the need for strong student and teacher relationships.

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  Supporting High School Student’s Executive Function while Teaching the Writing Process

  By Lauren Morrow I’ve been teaching writing since I started teaching at Landmark, and as someone who enjoys writing, teaching writing has been an exciting (and sometimes frustrating) opportunity for me. The majority of the students I teach have executive functioning deficits; thus, the writing process can seem like an insurmountable task for them. Although

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  Expository Writing Across the Curriculum

  “By the time a child is in late elementary school, expository writing demands are almost everywhere, in every subject.” – Jean Gudaitis Tarricone Expository writing begins early and exists in every subject from history to math class. Producing sequential, enumerative, compare/contrast, cause/effect, opinion, and descriptive writing is an everyday occurrence in the curriculum from late

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  Tips to Address Listening and Speaking Skills in Remote Learning Environments

  By Linda Gross As an educational consultant for the Landmark Outreach Program, I have the privilege of working with special education teachers, general education teachers, teaching assistants, speech-language pathologists (SLPs), reading specialists, and administrators. I get to see first-hand the ways these professionals weave strategies into lessons across all grades and subjects to support all

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