Choose Accessible Learning Materials (CALM) for Your Classroom

Students continue to have expanded opportunities to use classroom technology for literacy and learning in diverse settings. Are your instructional materials ready to be used by students using these technologies? Explore quick and easy ways to compose your electronic instructional resources so they have improved readability and are easily accessible to technology such as text readers.

Facilitated By

Jeff Sisk

Accessibility & Assistive Technology Senior Manager, Fairfax County Public Schools

Jeff Sisk is the Senior Manager of Assistive Technology Services (ATS) in Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, the ninth largest school district in the United States. He has been working in the assistive technology (AT) field for over 25 years and actively participates in the planning and implementation of district technology initiatives. Jeff collaborates with regional assistive technology partners and hosts a biennial assistive technology conference for his school
district. Jeff also regularly presents at state and national conferences and has provided auditing and training for the United States Department of State’s
International Schools. He has served as an Adjunct Instructor at George Mason University for more than 17 years and has co authored Assistive
Technology Industry Association’s (ATiA) Assistive Technology Outcomes & Benefits (ATOB) Journal: “Voices from the Field – The Assistive Technology
Services Experience of the 2020-2021 School Year” Prior to his career in assistive technology, Jeff was a special education teacher