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For school personnel supporting students who are Blind/Visually Impaired (BVI), regional swap meets provide...

Families, educators, and other school personnel are invited to attend MDE-LIO’s LIVE With LIO webinars, which are held every other Tuesday at noon during the school year.

Each LIVE With LIO webinar covers topics that are specific to supporting students who are...

In a small conference room at Amazon’s Detroit headquarters in mid-November, Senior User Experience Designer Brendan Gramer described his career path to 15 intently focused students.

Using American Sign Language (ASL), Gramer talked about his experiences in the...

When John Kusku played goalball competitively for the first time, he got a bloody nose.

“I thought it was great,” said Kusku, who now plays on the men’s U.S. Goalball Team. “I wanted to keep playing.”

This past November, Kusku traveled to Ithaca, Michigan...

Parents know that students’ learning often goes beyond the classroom. To support the development of specific skills that are not taught in the classroom or require direct teaching, the Iowa Department of Education created a document called the...

Over the summer, MDE-LIO welcomed Michelle Woolf as Department Manager for Finance and Human Resources and Brenda Mahoney as Events Manager.

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When visiting a middle school on a summer morning, you might not expect to be greeted by two fourth-graders and an eighth-grader running a coffee stand.

But for five weeks this summer, those who stopped by Mount Pleasant Middle School between 8 and 10 a.m. Tuesday...

Although the new school year has just begun, MDE-LIO would like to encourage districts to start thinking about submitting textbook requests for next school year.

When a district submits an early request, MDE-LIO staff has adequate time to produce the book and get...