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Area: PRACTITIONER:S
- 1/1/10 - King Thorius, Kathleen, Equity Alliance at ASU
Despite remarkable progress along many indicators of equitable access, participation, and outcomes of schooling, there are still persistent, pervasive issues that must be addresses, including continued disparities in access to athletics and academic programs, sexual harassment, hate crimes, and discriminatory treatment of girls and women. This What Matters brief includes strategies for:
* Achieving gender equity in access and opportunities to learn
* Achieving a gender-balanced... - 1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU
A lesson planning tool for teachers to examine: the structure of instruction, the demands and evaluation criteria of the tasks, the learning environment, the learning materials used, and the support structures needed. - 1/1/05 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU
As American schools seek to accommodate an increasing range of students, teachers are challenged as never before. When students with disabilities, linguistic differences or other unique abilities join general education classrooms, even willing teachers fear their lack of training and preparation to deal with such differences make their role as primary teacher inappropriate and inadequate. - 1/1/06 - Joseph G. Kosciw, Elizabeth M. Diaz
"GLSEN's biennial National School Climate Survey is the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's secondary schools." - 1/1/08 - Gersten, R., Compton, D., Connor, C.M., Dimino, J., Santoro, L., Linan-Thompson, S., Tilly, W.D.
This Practice Guide, released by IES in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement Response to Intervention to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to improve outcomes for students who have difficulty with reading as well as set in place a screening process for all students. The guide presents recommendations and indicates the quality of the research base that supports them. It includes common questions and... - 1/1/07 - National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness,
Provides details about the population of children who are deaf-blind, including the classification of vision and hearing loss, the types of additional disabilities that may be present, and the causes of deafblindness. Vignettes and photos of four children who are deaf-blind illustrate the diversity of this unique group of children. Information from the population is drawn from annual child count data reported in The National Deaf-Blind Child Count: 1998–2005 in Review. - Riccomini, P., Bost, L.W. , Katsiyannis, A., Zhang, D.
This Practice Brief based on the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) supported work by The What Works In Transition Synthesis Center, The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions on Dropout for Youth with Disabilities (Cobb, Sample, Alwell, & Johns, 2005), provides educators with a conceptual understanding and technical information to assist in implementing cognitive-behavioral interventions that reduce aggressive behaviors in students. - Lisa Dieker
This site deals with information on Co-teaching and the various ways in which this can be accomplished. There is even a discussion on how to do online collaboration so that those unable to do so within their current situation may find this option available. - 1/1/07 - Flowers, C. , Wakeman, S., Browder, D., Karvonen, M.
The purpose of this manual is to prepare professionals to conduct an alignment study using the Links for Academic Learning (LAL). LAL was developed to examine the alignment of academic content standards, extended standards (if applicable), professional development activities, instruction, achievement (or performance) standards and alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. - 1/1/06 - Francis, D., Rivera, M. , Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., Rivera, H.
Book 1 of 3: This book, released in October 2006, is the first in a series of three Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners. It provides evidence-based recommendations for policymakers, administrators, and teachers in K-12 settings who seek to make informed decisions about instruction and academic interventions for ELLs. The domains of focus include reading and mathematics, and the recommendations apply to both a class-wide instructional format and individualized... - 1/1/06 - Francis, D. , Rivera, M., Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., Rivera, H.
Book 2 of 3: TThis book, released in October 2006, is the second in a series of three Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners. This document was written primarily for the group of ELLs who are adolescent newcomers to the United States and who have a relatively short period of time in which to simultaneously develop academic language skills and master grade-level content. It provides evidence-based recommendations for policymakers, administrators, and teachers in... - 1/1/06 - Francis, D., Rivera, M. , Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., Rivera, H.
Book 3 of 3: This book, released in October 2006, is the third in a series of three Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners. NCLB has increased awareness of the academic needs and achievement of ELLs as schools, districts, and states are held accountable for teaching English and content knowledge to ELLs. ELLs present a unique set of challenges to educators because of the central role played by academic language proficiency in the acquisition and assessment of... - 1/1/09 - Henderson, J., Strain, P.
The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of the use of screening and to help administrators and teachers choose appropriate instruments for implementing a screening program. - 1/1/08 - National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness,
This publication describes the importance of early communication experiences for the development of symbolic communication in children who are deaf-blind. The publication is based on research and review articles by Susan Bruce (Boston College) and colleagues. Two recent studies by these researchers are highlighted. The first is on the use of gestures in children who are deaf-blind and the second is on the rate of intentional communication acts in children with severe disabilities, including... - 1/1/07 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,
Generation Y teachers want to shake up the stagnant education system, according to a survey of first-year teachers commissioned by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The freedom to be creative, the power to make a difference, opportunities to grow, rewards, and an end to the one-size-fits-all model of instruction is what new teachers say will improve the quality of education, according to the nationwide survey of 865 teachers in...
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