ECC Challenge


Welcome to the Outreach ECC Challenge

Complete Monthly ECC activities for an entry into a monthly raffle for $50


Families: click the button below to download and fill out the permission slip for your student.


How does it all work?

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Rules: Learn how to enter to win $50

To be eligible, each Student/Teacher and Family/Student team must follow these simple guidelines:

1. Show Us Your Success!

Every challenge submission needs to be supported by proof. Fill out this month’s Google form to enter. This can be photos, documents, videos, or even links to social media reels, stories, highlights, or Google Photos albums. 

2. Submit by the 1st, Win by the 5th!

All proof must be uploaded to the portal by the 1st of the following month. The raffle drawing will happen by the 5th, and winners will be notified via the email used for the submission.

3. One Month at a Time!

You can’t submit for the next month until the previous month’s entries close. (Give a cheer to our hardworking MSB gerbils who keep everything running smoothly!)

4. More Entries, More Chances to Win!

The number of complete submissions equals your number of entries in the raffle. 

For example:

   – Joe Smith & family complete eight challenges, which means that  Joe earns eight raffle entries.   Easy, right?

 Teachers, Paras, and Providers can also win!

For every student you enter, you’ll be entered into a separate monthly drawing for a $50 value prize and each entry means more chances at the year-end $250 prize!

For example:

  • If Penny Jones & her family complete and submit ten challenges and Penny has a teacher complete three entries, Penny gets 13, and her teacher would get 3! 
  • If  Damion Doright has 0 entries from his family but his Paraeducator submits 3,  His teacher does 2, and his  RSP does 1, that means Damion gets six entries, and each member of that service team gets the number they submit for the teacher raffle.
  • Don’t be like Tommy OopsIForgot—no entries mean no raffle tickets!

5. Grand Prize Alert! Every month, you submit at least one entry, and you’ll be entered for our June Grand Prize drawing worth $400! (Each student can earn up to 9 family entries and nine teacher entries for the year.)

**And most importantly, HAVE FUN!** Contact the MSB Outreach Team (OutreachECC@mdschblind.org) if you need support, resources, or just a little help along the way.


What is this month’s challenge?

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ECC Challenge for Teachers/Providers

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February: Compensatory Access Skills

“Compensatory Access includes skills related to accessing information in the world, the ability to communicate, and literacy.” (Allman, Carol B., et al. ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments. APH Press, 2014.) The goal is for the student to have equal access to the core curriculum and the school environment. (Foundations of Education: Instructional Strategies, Third Edition, Volume 2 Chapter 11)

I can interpret a tactile graphic/manipulative and evaluate its effectiveness

How will we get there?

Know. Understand. Do. A framework to guide learning activities.

Know (K): Tends to be binary. Either you know it or you don’t. Examples: Facts & Dates, Definitions, People & Places

Understand (U): Is a continuum; from novice to advanced. Examples: Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Generalizations

Do (D): Show they understand and the application of skills/content.

Resources

To submit to the monthly ECC Challenge:

  1. Complete activities and experiences featured in this month’s ECC Challenge.
  2. Complete the Google Form on the TVI Portal OR email this worksheet and a photo to OutreachECC@mdschblind.org.
  3. The student and teacher will be entered into this month’s raffle!

Tell us what you KUD!

February

Student name: Teacher name:

Vocabulary

  • Compensatory skill
  • Media/medium
  • Tool 
  • Device
  • Manipulatives

K: Can the student define these words? ☐

U: Can the student explain the relationships between these words and accessing educational materials? ☐

D: Can the student use these words in conversation/writing or teach/share with someone? ☐

Objects/Materials

  • Tactile graphics/diagrams (various types)
  • Image descriptions (various types)
  • Size/scale
  • Tactile paint, bump dots, stickers, wikki sticks…

K: Can the student tell you what these objects are or how they are used? ☐

U: Can the student tell you how they relate to or explain representations of an item? ☐

D: Can the student systematically search them? Can they correctly interpret them? Do they make sense to the student? ☐

Concepts/Activities: Use to teach words, objects and concepts

K: Label/find the various parts of a tactile graphic/diagram. ☐

U: Can the student determine the location/direction of another feature/part based on their current position in the graphic/diagram? ☐

D: Discuss size/scale, can the student demonstrate an understanding of these concepts and how they relate to the diagrams/representations? ☐

Experiences: Connect words, objects, and activities to everyday experiences

  • Have the student critique a diagram’s (or model’s) effectiveness and explain what could be improved. 
  • Have the student create their own tactile diagram or graphic with materials found around their home or school.
  • Have someone else evaluate the tactile diagram. Solicit feedback from them on ways to improve it.
ECC Challenge at Home for Families and Students

ECC @ Home: January Challenge – Career EducationECC @ Home:  February Challenge Compensatory

Student Activities: 

  • Create a document that describes how you like to access print materials.
  • Practice to increase your typing speed and/or accuracy.
  • Evaluate the accuracy of an image description
  • Select manipulatives to use for a math or science concept and explain why you picked them.
  • Organize your computer folders by binder or subjects.
  • Have a teacher or peer evaluate your note-taking skills.
  • Estimate how long it will take you to do something and time yourself to see if you were correct. 
  • Estimate the size of a room in your house and measure to see how close you are. 

Family Concept Practice: 

  • Have your child teach the family how to use one of their low vision tools.
  • Take a typing test and see how can type the fastest in the family. 
  • Have your child repeat or summarize something you said to them. 
  • Have your child estimate how long something will need to cook and compare real time for accuracy. 
  • Watch a YouTube video on the abacus and solve a simple math problem together. 
  • Have your child sort and put away the silverware
  • Have your child alphabetize your movies or books.
  • Have your child estimate the size of an object and compare to the real results.

Parent Only Activities: 

Resource Links (do not count as entries if completed): 

DETAILS: 

Submission Deadline For  February:  March 3
Prize Drawing:  $50 5 Below Gift Card

Submission & Proof Upload Link

Questions or Support Needed?   OutreachECC@mdschblind.org