

She also welcomed and hoped for any feedback that we can provide to make it even more accessible! The digital book, called "Keepin' It Real: Elementary Curriculum for 5th/6th grade", is also available in Spanish and French. Kathie Salas and her husband manage the digital book portal and was excited that the book seems to be accessible to screenreader users. There are fillable text edit boxes embedded in the worksheets and students can save their work as they go so that the instructor can monitor their work.Īs a side note, the digital book system is managed by a separate company from the rest of the DARE program. The worksheets seem to work well with VoiceOver on an iPhone but haven't tested them with any other screenreaders yet. Once logged in, the students will have access to all of the pages of the workbook, organized in a list of links. The student then visits the daremobile website student portal and creates a "student" account and use the access code that was generated in the instructor account. You will also be given an access code for students to use when signing up. As the instructor, you area able to select which workbook the students will have access to.

Once signed up, you can create an active classroom session and purchase student "seats" for $1.59 each (easy online purchase). Access the digital workbook and sign up to create an "instructor" account.

The school resource officer will likely not be familiar with these options (such as in our case). The workbooks are available both in digital format and Braille format but have to be ordered.

I scrambled to find out what accessibility options were available and wanted to pass along what I found in case anyone else can use the info! Programs lessons and that the students were all receiving a workbook with activities and worksheets to complete. I just had a classroom teacher let me know that their 5th-grade class would be starting weekly D.A.R.E. follows a curriculum Susan Juarez, a TVI, shared the following information about how to access the D.A.R.E. Classrooms all across American participate in this program which is taught by certified D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is an educational program that seeks to prevent the use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior.
