Posts by Karla Phillips-Krivickas
Equity & Access
Building a Pathway Onramp: Transition Plan Design Guidelines
Transition planning is an intentional, organized, and coordinated process of guiding students with disabilities with education, experiences, supports, and services.
Equity & Access
Uncovering Pathways for Students with Disabilities
When students with disabilities don’t have equitable access to early college opportunities, they miss out on significant benefits and any conversation about equity is incomplete without including students with disabilities.
Equity & Access
How 3 States Are Eliminating Barriers to Dual Enrollment for Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities are often told that the services and support they receive in school cannot be offered in dual or concurrent enrollment programs. Some states have taken steps to make sure that their students with disabilities have access to dual and concurrent enrollment programs.
Equity & Access
10 Resolutions for Special Education in 2021
By: Karla Phillips-Krivickas. With these 10 initiatives, states can rethink and reimagine teaching and learning for all students, especially those with disabilities.
Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning Is Special Education and the Time Is Now
By: Karla Phillips-Krivickas and Rebecca Midles. Learned through shared experiences, Karla and Rebecca share how schools can design student-centered, personalized learning for all students.
Future of Learning
Reimagining Learning for Students with Disabilities: A COVID Crisis Silver Lining
By: Karla Phillips-Krivickas. As schools are reopening their classroom doors, they should also open the door to reimagining education for students with disabilities.
Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning: Lessons to Get the Message Right
Interest in personalized learning continues to surge. But not everyone understands what personalized learning is, and people are often wary of what they don’t understand--so how we talk about personalized learning can either engage families or push them away.
Personalized Learning
Getting Personalized Learning Right the First Time
By: Karla Esparza-Phillips and Ace Parsi. Facing the daunting challenge of preparing all students for success, educators are caught in a persistent churn of reform and innovation. But have these innovations really moved the needle for students with disabilities?
Personalized Learning
Starting Over With Personalized Learning
By: Karla Esparza-Phillips and Ace Parsi. The rapidly growing interest in personalized learning leads us to believe that we may be finally reaching a tipping point. How can EdLeaders build a personalized learning system that meets the needs of all students?
Competency-Based Education
Competency-Based Education Can Better Inform Parents, Students & Teachers
By: Karla Phillips and Carri Schneider. Competency-based systems create a more transparent, complete, and accurate picture of student achievement than the traditional time-based and cohort-based system.