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Winnie O'Leary

Winnie O’Leary has spent over 25 years in education, as a classroom teacher, school board member, a family advocate, special education teacher, curriculum writer and currently a Curriculum Manager for Edmentum. Her experiences have allowed her to work with districts all over the country where she finds something new and exciting every day. 

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Understanding the Challenges Faced by Homeless Students: What Educators Can Do to Help

In this post, we will discuss the signs educators can watch for to identify homeless students, understand how homelessness impacts learning, review the current legislation, and discuss what educators can do to support students in these situations.

How to Get Started with Trauma-Informed Teaching: 6 Resources for Educators

We’ve gathered up some of the best websites, fact sheets, and articles to help you support your students experiencing trauma.

What Comes Next? Three Goals for the Edmentum Educator Network Based on Our First Educator Summit

The 30-60-90-day approach is a framework that helps in creating order and setting out a path to accomplishing such realistic goals. The model breaks down what progress will look like at the 30-, 60-, and 90-day marks of achieving long-term goals or sets goals over a three-month period, chunked into 30-day accomplishments. These 30-60-90-day plans have been used in the business world for many years as a measure of effectiveness.

Social and Emotional Learning in Practice

Next week, we’re kicking off our very first Edmentum Educator Summit, and I’m so excited to welcome our group of awesome connected educators for two days of in-depth discussions and in-person netwo

6 Best Practices to Get Started with Universal Design for Learning in the Age of ESSA

We’ve taken a brief look at the “what” and the “why” of UDL; now, how do educators start incorporating this model as a foundation of their classroom and instruction? Here are six best practices to keep in mind.

[Social Media] Staying Connected with Educator Network Twitter Chats

Professional growth aside, this development is phenomenal, connecting educators all over the world in 280 characters or less. In June, Edmentum ran our first live Twitter chat (or tweet chat), and due to its success, we will be hosting another on Thursday, July 26, at 9:00 p.m. EDT.

An Educator’s Guide to Staying Connected

Connected learners develop networks and shared learning. They use collaborative online spaces and social media and engage in conversations across the world, and they bring that learning back to the classroom. Educators should have the same opportunity.

[Learning to Read] Using Digital Tools Within the UDL Framework

Most teachers of little ones understand that teaching elementary children often involves walking a narrow line between exploration and total chaos. Walking that line often means navigating and eliminating as many obstacles to learning as possible, taking care to identify gaps quickly so that no one gets left behind. This is best supported by a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) curriculum with embedded provisions, including technology.