By Padmaja Sarathy

Replacing NCLB, the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) impacts students with significant disabilities regarding alternate assessments, access to and progress in the general curriculum, and their IEPs. Introducing the new version of Striking a Balance Between IDEA and NCLB for Students With Significant Disabilities — a just-released guide completely updated for ESSA!

The new version combines Q&As on new requirements with step-by-step demonstration of how to ensure access to and engagement with academic content-area instruction. It’s ideal for administrators and classroom teachers, with:

• Best practices to incorporate Universal Design for Learning routinely as part of the instructional process
• 11 Lesson Frameworks, spanning academic content areas and grade levels, demonstrating instructional delivery that ensures student access, engagement and response
• Ready-to-use resources including instructional ideas, graphic organizers and concept maps, and adapted math tools
• Checklists teachers can use to continually monitor student progress and modify instruction or task complexity when necessary
• Plus more!