Iowa’s Access for All: Part 1 - getting started
What’s it about?
In part one of this webinar series, join Everway’s Strategic Customer Success Manager Nik Poulakidas and Iowa Department of Education’s MeLissa Lawson as they lead an insightful discussion on uPar.
uPar is a powerful, data-driven tool designed to identify students who would benefit from text-to-speech support for reading.
Now available for free to all Iowa districts upon request, uPar improves student outcomes and empowers learners to access grade-level text.
What you’ll learn
- What uPar is
- Why it’s important for struggling learners in your district
- How it identifies a student’s need for reading accommodation tools
- How reading accommodation tools like Read&Write can support struggling learners with their literacy needs
Who should attend?
- Educators
- Administrators
- Special Education Coordinators
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Meet the speakers
Nik Poulakidas
Strategic Customer Success Manager, Everway
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager Nik serves some of Everway’s largest and most complex partners, including large school districts and statewide education agencies. He works to ensure these partners realize the full value of Everway’s solutions, achieve their strategic goals, and maintain long-term, sustainable partnerships.
MeLissa Lawson
Iowa Department of Education
MeLissa Lawson is a consultant in the Iowa Department of Education, specializing in Accessible Educational Materials and Universal Design for Learning.
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Iowa’s Access for All part 2: Deep dive into uPar
Join our education specialists for part two of the series: a deep dive into uPar. A powerful reading screener available to all districts in Iowa for free.
Iowa’s Access for All part 3: data-based decision making with uPar
In part three of our series, learn how to use uPar data to make decisions about student accommodations. uPar is reading screener free to all districts in Iowa.