Only have a few minutes to plan? Use this resource to find a starting point that works for you!

The Individual Access Strategies is a searchable compilation of instructional, material and environmental strategies that can create curricular access for individual students. It also provides suggested testing accommodations. The tool adapts resources from the Pre-referral Intervention Manual - 3rd Edition, the guidance document developed by the NYS Education Department's Specifically Designed Instruction working group and Beech's "Accommodations: Assisting Students with Disabilities - A Guide for Educators". This tool is best used in conjunction with universally accessible units and lessons. 

Use this checklist to reflect on your current planning and instruction. Do your lessons include many of these features? Are there one or two you can consistently integrate into lessons? Try it out!

This resource has examples of the multiple ways students can demonstrate understanding. This is helpful when developing unit assessments and lesson assessments. 

The purpose of a “hook” is to help students frame their thinking and focus on the concept at hand. Hooks grab students interest and pull them in. This resource has examples of the different types of hooks.

Low-stakes writing is a tool to help students build comfort with sharing and developing their thoughts through writing. This article provides examples of cross-content low-stakes writing prompts and their purpose. 

Students are less likely to remember continuous, long lectures and predictable lesson. This resource provides strategies for increasing memory by purposefully engaging learners' positive emotions. 

Use this resource if you want to see options for leveraging co-teaching models throughout different parts of a lesson.