National Disability Employment Awareness Month – Day 6
Day 6 – Participate in Disability Mentoring Day Day 6 – Participate in Disability Mentoring Day Disability Mentoring Day promotes career development for youth with disabilities through hands-on programs, job shadowing, and ongoing mentoring. The nationwide observance is the third Wednesday of October, but employers may choose to host events on any day of the…
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What to do for Disability Employment Awareness Month
What is Digitability Doing for Disability Employment Awareness Month? What is Digitability Doing for Disability Employment Awareness Month? What is Digitability Doing for Disability Employment Awareness Month Information by Office of Disability Employment Policy For employers, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is a great time to reinforce a commitment to an inclusive workplace through…
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This Teacher’s Digitability Coach Is Her “Right-Hand Man.”
Video Series! Video Series! EPISODE 8: HOW IS DIGITABILITY HELPING THIS FIRST YEAR LIFE SKILLS TEACHER WITH PLANNING AND IEPS? Whether it’s Your First Year or Your 30th Year Teaching, Digitability Has Your Back Every teacher remembers the challenges they faced in their early years. Megan French, a Life Skills teacher in the Black Horse…
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This Teacher’s Secret to Getting Students Employed
Video Series! Video Series! EPISODE 7: WHAT’S THIS TEACHER’S SECRET TO GETTING HER STUDENTS EMPLOYED? Your Students Recieve Tech Skills, a Resume, and a LinkedIn Profile When You Teach With Digitability Dana Steinwart, an 18-21 Transition teacher in the Blue Valley School District, has turned her classroom into a modern workplace. Along with learning 21st…
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What Skills Will Students Need to Sustain Employment Once They Obtain It?
What Skills Will Students Need to Sustain Employment Once They Obtain It? It’s important that we, as educators, make the expectations in the workplace explicit so students can identify what behaviors will make them successful and what behaviors may be perceived as problematic in some settings. Practice Workplace Behaviors in Mock Workplaces Digitability’s Workplace Behavior…
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A Trainee Used Tech to Get Her Mom Back to Work?
Video Series! Video Series! EPISODE 6: HOW ONE TRAINEE USED TECH TO GET HER MOM BACK TO WORK Taking Skills From the Classroom to the Community Generalization is the ability to perform skills across different settings. A trainee in Shannon Kelley’s first cohort did just that when she helped her mom get back to work…
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Digitability Helping Goodwill Rebuild Skill Building Program
Video Series! Video Series! EPISODE 5: HOW DIGITABILITY IS HELPING GOODWILL REBUILD THEIR SKILL BUILDING PROGRAM “The pandemic decimated our program as we knew it.” – Shannon Kelley, Skills Coordinator for Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit “Digitability has helped us realign and redefine our goals in the sense that we have refreshed our mission.” -…
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Closing the Financial Literacy Gap in Detroit
Video Series! Video Series! EPISODE 4: HOW THIS SKILLS COORDINATOR IS CLOSING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY GAP IN DETROIT “What do you want to learn as far as financial management, money management? – Shannon Kelley, Skills Coordinator for Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit “I want to learn how to use a bank account online, I want…
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Get Back to School With Digitability’s New Features
Get Back to School With Digitability’s New Features Get Back to School With Digitability’s New Features Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your vacation. Each summer, the Digitability team reviews all of the requests submitted by our teachers working across the country to identify how we can enhance our offerings and ensure that teachers have…
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Check Out New Features From Digitability
Check Out New Features From Digitability Check Out New Features From Digitability Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your vacation. Each summer, the Digitability team reviews all of the requests submitted by our teachers working across the country to identify how we can enhance our offerings and ensure that teachers have the tools they need…
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