What are your best practices for designing lessons that meet diverse student needs?

I try to connect content to the real world. Today, we were talking about earthquakes, and I related to Hurricane Helene. In math, provide support for students who have not memorized their multiplication facts. Show how they can build a list of multiples to solve the problem. Stop when you are reading a text and have students talk to a partner to check for comprehension. When you are creating your lesson plans, make sure that the activities are varied.

What other ideas can you share to meet these student needs?

How do you ensure that your lesson plans are aligned with both state standards and student needs?

My new school is looking for ways that related arts (music, art, and PE) can integrate math into their lessons easily. Any ideas or research that you’ve found that helps this work? We are doing this Kinder through 5th grade.

Next week is "Celebrate Freedom Week". During that week, students will learn about different founding documents. One key statement that we discuss is, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". What are some ways that your district explains the idea that government's power comes from the people. (This is a State Statute as well as a set of standards)

How would you plan a lesson for a standard about identifying the differences in the perspectives of characters? Do you have any good texts to help me teach that topic?