Institute for Educational Development | Professional Staff Development

Location:
Live Online
6:00 am – 12:30 pm
Pacific

Date:
December 5, 2025

$295.00 per person
Group Price: $275.00
*For 3 or more people registering at the same time

Other Seminar Dates:
11/25/257 am PDT

AI-Powered Accommodations: Enhancing Success for Students With Special Needs (Grades K-12)

NEW Seminar Presented By
Jenny Thompson

Outstanding Special Education Teacher and National Presenter

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Specially Designed for Grades K-12 Special Education Teachers, Special Education Department Heads, and Administrators

  • Enhance accommodations and modifications for students with special needs using practical AI tools
  • Powerful AI tools to increase student's access to the general education curriculum
  • Leverage generative AI for special needs students' personalized learning
  • Avoid common pitfalls and address ethical concerns of using AI tools in special education

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this NEW seminar by outstanding special education teacher Jenny L. Thompson, learn the value of artificial intelligence (AI) for enhancing your student accommodations and creating even more accessibility! AI tools offer amazing new opportunities to automate cumbersome tasks, bring creativity and innovation to your instructional practice, and lighten the stress of paperwork in special education. Find out how AI may help you create differentiated lessons and more easily create accommodations and modifications to better meet the needs of individual students. Make every day count using AI in ways that will enhance student learning and lighten your workload. This seminar is designed to provide you with a host of practical, actionable strategies and skills you can immediately implement as a special education teacher.

Join Jenny for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity— tools and resources that you as a special education teacher can put into practice the very next day!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

  1. Enhance Accommodations for Your Students in Special Education
    Use practical AI tools and strategies to create accommodations for your students with special needs … Receive outstanding practical resources you can use immediately
  2. Promote Greater Success for Your Student With Special Needs
    Empower students' ownership of their learning, independence and success with the help of AI … Help your students experience short- and long-term success
  3. Utilize AI Tools to Increase Student Success and Improve Confidence
    Special Education students will realize that they can improve their academic engagement using AI tools, bolstering their sense of success and accomplishment
  4. Increase Special Needs Students' Access to the General Curriculum
    Use AI powered accommodations and modifications to make the general curriculum more accessible
  5. Enhance Your Adapted Curriculum
    Differentiate your teaching rapidly and easily … Leave with AI Tools especially designed for helping students with disabilities reach higher levels of learning
  6. Unlock the Potential of AI in Your Lesson Design Process
    Design learning experiences which are highly engaging and innovative, while accessible for all of your students with special needs
  7. Ease Your Workload and Maximize Your Teacher Time
    Learn new AI tools that you can immediately adopt into your regular routines to increase productivity, save time and improve your efficiency as a resource teacher
  8. Interactive AI tools You Can Use Immediately in Special Education
    From assistive writing aids to lesson generators … Engage with current AI tools that can be put to work for you and your students the next day!
  9. Practical Strategies to Address Ethical Concerns With Using AI in Special Education
    Avoid the most common pitfalls and prepare for best practices using AI as a special education teacher
  10. Receive an Extensive Digital AI Tools Handbook
    Each participant will receive a comprehensive digital handbook including resources to help you adopt AI Tools as a regular part of your daily routines to enhance student learning while saving time for teachers

Specific Topics


Here's what you'll learn:

  • Develop effective and ethical accommodations and modifications to help students with disabilities succeed across academic environments
  • The best, most useful AI tools to enhance learning and ease your workload
  • AI tools to help your students receiving services improve their academic success
  • AI techniques to help you automate tasks which formerly consumed too much of your time
  • Methods for using AI to streamline administrative tasks like innovative lesson planning and documenting evidence of learning
  • Approaches to help you differentiate your instruction rapidly and easily to better meet the needs of your unique learners
  • Practical ways AI can deliver real-time feedback and improve students' performance
  • How to inspire students to learn more independently through AI-based teaching strategies
  • Creative ways to increase student productivity and effectiveness through the tools offered by AI
  • Ways to bring 21st-century skills into your classroom using AI to improve critical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration
  • Support student ownership of AI tools to increase lifelong independence and build their learning capacity
  • Improve student confidence in learning with AI-powered resources appropriate for a variety of student levels of learning
  • Gain knowledge of resources for both direct and indirect instruction to meet your students where they are
  • Creative solutions to removing barriers with AI-powered tools for students and staff
  • Cutting-edge strategies to support students' individual needs and goals
  • An expanded repertoire of tools to better manage the needs of your students with special needs
  • Ideas, Ideas, Ideas – ways to remove students' learning barriers, improve individual outcomes, help students take more responsibility for their learning, create differentiated lessons based on your assessments, and more!

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Who among us doesn't want better accommodations for our students with disabilities, while saving time on prep and paperwork? As a long-time special education educator and AI enthusiast, I've been discovering a whole new level of unimaginable and innovative tools to support my work! I have explored and adopted numerous powerful AI tools that have saved valuable time creating specially designed instruction lesson plans, differentiating for all the special needs of my students, and almost instantly creating tailored accommodations and modifications that really work for my students. I am beyond excited to share all the practical AI tips and pathways I have learned and implemented to provide you with timesaving tools, strategies, and resources.

This NEW seminar will provide you with multiple ways to almost immediately reduce your time spent on administrative work and everyday tasks, place tools and strategies to help your students at your fingertips, and almost immediately improve your student outcomes. You will discover AI tools to increase student success through the use of powerful and evolving AI tools. We'll explore a variety of innovative AI means for significantly enhancing your students' learning, create better accommodations that boost independence, and ease your workload!

Join me for a day of innovative and practical ideas just for you, special education teachers! My goal is that you will leave with actionable strategies and skills to incorporate AI to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your overall instruction, and boost your capacity to provide more efficient, high-quality special education services and accommodations.

Sincerely,
Jenny L. Thompson

P.S. Learn highly practical AI tools and strategies enhancing student learning while saving valuable time as a special education teacher!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-12 Special Education Teachers, Special Education Department Heads, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance learning and address accommodations for your special education students
  • Practical steps you can take to automate routine administrative tasks using artificial intelligence
  • Highly practical strategies for using AI tools to assist with your assessments, interventions, and skills teaching
  • AI tools for better accessibility to curriculum for special education students
  • An extensive collection of AI resources for your continued professional development
  • Creative ideas for innovative accommodations at a variety of learning levels

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with others interested in enhancing their special education program.

Consultation Available
Jenny L. Thompson will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option:
UMASS Logo Graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate of the University of Massachusetts, will be available at the seminar.

Meet Inservice Requirements:
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.