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Empowering Special Educators with Smarter, Data-Driven Teaching Tools

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Session description

Special education teachers juggle countless responsibilities—tracking progress, developing personalized lessons, and ensuring instruction aligns with IEP goals. This session explores how educators can harness technology to streamline these tasks, making data collection effortless and lesson planning more responsive. With smarter digital assessments, real-time progress tracking, and seamless integration of hands-on and digital learning, educators can spend less time searching for resources and more time teaching. Discover how data-driven instruction empowers teachers to track student growth, align IEP goals with instruction, and make informed decisions that drive long-term success.

Outline

Empowering Special Educators Through Smart Tools
This poster session uses high-impact visuals to illustrate how technology can transform the special education experience—making instruction more efficient, data more actionable, and support more individualized. Key visuals include:

The Challenge: Common obstacles in lesson planning and progress tracking

The Transformation: Visual comparisons of traditional vs. tech-enhanced instruction

Engagement in Action: Screenshots and classroom imagery showing blended learning

Data that Drives Learning: Dynamic views of IEP goal alignment and progress tracking

Educator Impact: Real-world examples from ARIS, where teachers report time savings and improved student outcomes

Each visual highlights how digital tools—like ARIS—help special educators spend more time teaching and less time managing paperwork, ultimately delivering more meaningful support to every student.

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Additional Information

This session will highlight how technology can transform special education by making data actionable. Instead of focusing on a single platform, the session will provide insights into best practices for leveraging digital tools to enhance instruction, align with IEPs, and improve student outcomes. Educators will leave with practical strategies they can implement immediately to streamline their workflows and support student success.

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Presenters

Dr. Dr. Kari Stubbs

SVP, Business Development

Stages Learning, ISTE Board alumni

Session specifications

Topic:

Assessment and Data Driven Practices

Attendee devices:

Devices not needed

Subject area:

Special Education

ISTE Standards:

For Educators:
Designer

Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
Design authentic learning activities that align with educational standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize learning.
Apply evidence-based instructional design principles to create innovative and equitable digital learning environments that support learning.

Disclosure:

The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session

Influencer Disclosure:

This session includes a presenter that indicated a “material connection” to a brand that includes a personal, family or employment relationship, or a financial relationship. See individual speaker menu for disclosure information.