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What is culturally responsive teaching?

Culturally responsive teaching helps create learning environments that validate and reflect the dive…

Special education and the coronavirus: Legal FAQs about IEPs

How does the coronavirus impact students with IEPs? Get answers to legal questions about FMLA, remot…

Practicing self-care during the coronavirus: 5 tips for teachers

Learn five self-care routines for teachers during the coronavirus. Get self-care ideas for teachers …

Perspectives: Talking with kids about racial injustice

Get perspectives from a child psychologist, teachers, parents, and young adults on talking with kids…

How to make a teaching goal

Want to improve your teaching practice? Here are four steps to help you set and achieve teaching goa…

What is trauma-informed teaching?

Learn what trauma is and how it impacts learning. Find out how trauma-informed teaching practices ca…

How my students’ strengths have shined

Watch this video to learn how kids are using and developing their strengths as they learn during the…

Teacher to teacher: Let’s improve how schools and families talk about race

Hear from one educator about how schools can improve their communication with families of color. Lea…

Understood’s top 5 educator articles of 2020

Five educators share their favorite Understood articles from 2020.

Dear teachers: You are also essential

Teaching during the coronavirus crisis is far from typical. Read a former teacher’s take on how esse…

“Trying to juggle everything”: Teachers who are parents offer advice on school closures

Watch this video to see how teachers who are parents of school-age kids are coping while school buil…

A letter to my students: Let’s celebrate your growth

Read one teacher’s letter to her students to celebrate their growth. Get ideas for how to celebrate …

Connecting with students: Teachers share their coronavirus strategies

Hear from teachers about how they’re staying connected with students during the coronavirus shutdown…

How I navigate the coronavirus as an educator with anxiety

See how one teacher with anxiety is coping with uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic. Get tip…

Coronavirus: Latest updates and tips

Get coronavirus updates related to kids and adults with learning differences or disabilities. Find r…

Understood Teacher Fellow Juliana Urtubey

Learn about Juliana Urtubey, an Understood Teacher Fellow and 2021 National Teacher of the Year.

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Reaching and Teaching All Students With UDL

Learn how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help you engage all your students. Read these arti…