Building knowledge requires enabling educators to be change agents by building evidence-based knowledge and understanding of what a learning disability is and the necessary conditions to ensure student success.
System Actions
- Provide modern learning opportunities to support the natural curiosity of learners with a learning disability
- Provide professional learning for educators with a focus on strategies to support positive mental health in all students (i.e. ADHD, anxiety)
- Develop leaders who believe that students have the potential to succeed regardless of their identification
- Increase knowledge of what components are needed in a rich transition plan and why are they valuable for student success
- Understand, honour, and value all pathways
School Actions
- Understand and utilize equitable and effective assessment practices
- Provide opportunities for students and educators to share effective, evidence-based practices, including the use of assistive technology
- Facilitate opportunities for students to share evidence-informed practices for using technology as a tool to support learning
- Develop school-wide understanding of a wide variety of accommodations
- Explore and understand the various learning pathways available that fit the needs of students with learning disabilities
Classroom Actions
- Understand the positive impact and needs for students to identify and connect with a caring and supportive adult and create conditions to support these relationships
- Develop and utilize strategies to support equitable and inclusive classrooms
- Understand how to develop individual and classroom learning profiles based on learners' strengths, needs and interests
- Understand and utilize equitable and effective assessment practices
- Understand that each student with a learning disability has a unique learning profile
- Use learning profiles when planning assessment and when making instructional decisions
- Use knowledge of the specific processing areas as identified on the Learning Disabilities Processing Skills Chart to inform all programming
- Develop knowledge around the creation of detailed transition plans that honour student voice