Elementary VAPA Assistant

Optimize choice and autonomy

Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity

Nurture joy and play

Address biases, threats, and distractions

Clarify the meaning and purpose of goals

Optimize challenge and support

Foster collaboration, interdependence, and collective learning

Foster belonging and community

Offer action-oriented feedback

Recognize expectations, beliefs, and motivations

Develop awareness of self and others

Promote individual and collective reflection

Cultivate empathy and restorative practices

Support opportunities to customize the display of information

Support multiple ways to perceive information

Represent a diversity of perspectives and identities in authentic ways

Clarify vocabulary, symbols, and language structures

Support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols

Cultivate understanding and respect across languages and dialects

Address biases in the use of language and symbols

Illustrate through multiple media

Connect prior knowledge to new learning

Highlight and explore patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships

Cultivate multiple ways of knowing and making meaning

Maximize transfer and generalization

Vary and honor the methods for response, navigation, and movement

Optimize access to accessible materials and assistive and accessible technologies and tools

Use multiple media for communication

Use multiple tools for construction, composition, and creativity

Build fluencies with graduated support for practice and performance

Address biases related to modes of expression and communication

Set meaningful goals

Anticipate and plan for challenges

Organize information and resources

Enhance capacity for monitoring progress

Challenge exclusionary practices