Tasha McKinney

The Power of a Teacher

This blog is a reminder of the essential, world-changing role teachers play. If you are a teacher, we hope this fuels your fire. For everyone else, may this serve as a call to action to show your appreciation.

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Preparing for a Winning Season

This year, TeachTown is enhancing the teaching and learning experience across our entire solution suite to ensure every student and teacher has a winning season. For the 2026-2027 school year, we are bringing together our different solutions into one digital ‘home base’ and expanding our instructional and assessment offerings to ensure your team has everything it needs to hit the ground running.

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Supporting the Mental Health of Students with Disabilities

This article explores the intersection of disability and mental health, offering insights and proactive strategies to ensure every student feels empowered and supported in their learning journey.

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Preparing ALL Learners for the Transition to Kindergarten

Kindergarten readiness is one of the most important goals of early childhood education, but what does it mean to prepare every learner for their journey into kindergarten and beyond? These five essential strategies support both neurotypical students and students with disabilities in their transition to kindergarten, ensuring that all learners have the foundation they need to thrive.

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The PreK to Kindergarten Transition Toolkit: A Strategic Roadmap for Administrators

To bridge the gap between early childhood philosophy and K-12 expectations, we are providing administrators with a strategic PreK to Kindergarten Transition Toolkit that is grounded in best practices and outlines four essential pillars: data, curriculum, professional development, and family partnership.

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Sustained Learning During The Winter Break for Students with Disabilities

For students with moderate to severe disabilities, continuous learning is critical to maintaining progress on IEP goals and skill building. We’ve compiled a list of hands-on, engaging activities that can be embedded into students' regular schedule and play throughout the winter break. With these tips and ideas, learning will be so integrated into students’ fun-filled days, they won’t even realize it’s happening!

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Power Up Your Special Ed Program: Strategies to Help Maximize Curriculum Outcomes

Are you simply using your special education curriculum, or are you truly maximizing its potential for transformative student growth? Maximizing your curriculum is the difference between maintaining the status quo and achieving high-impact outcomes for both your students and your professional practice.

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Benefits of Preschool Inclusion

In this blog, we explore why early childhood is the ideal time to implement inclusion and discuss the multiple benefits of high-quality, inclusive preschool settings, detailing how it leads to stronger academic and social gains for children with disabilities, while also equipping neurotypical peers with crucial skills in empathy and acceptance

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Now Available: enCORE Elementary Unit Assessments by Domain (ELA and Math)

enCORE Elementary Unit Assessments are now available both in their regular format of all domains in the same assessment AND in a new format where we focus on only one domain.

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Early Intervention for Language Delays: Why it Matters and What to Look For

Helping students strengthen their language skills in their early childhood years could have a major positive impact on their future success and wellbeing. In this blog, we’ll be discussing the benefits of early language intervention and how to spot potential language delays or disorders in young students.

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