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    Transition Services for Youth with Disabilities

    1/1/06 - Phil Ferguson, Rick Blumberg, Equity Alliance at ASU

    One way to evaluate the effectiveness of transition services for students with disabilities is to take a look at the outcomes students are achieving. The purpose of this report is to present some important statistics that reveal how students with disabilities appear to be faring; to identify some strategies that appear to result in desirable outcomes; and to suggest some resources for further information about this topic.

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    Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents

    1/1/04 - Alfredo Artiles, Beth Harry, Equity Alliance at ASU

    Do bias or inappropriate practice play a role in the placement of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education? Is the representation of low-income students in special education programs larger than their representation in the school population at your child’s school? If the answers to these questions are yes, it is possible your child’s school may be facing a problem that is called “overrepresentation” in its special education programs. This paper is one of...

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    Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    1/1/04 - Heraldo Richards, Ayanna Brown, Timothy Forde, Equity Alliance at ASU

    This practitioner brief deals with how to address educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. It applies to all parents and teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children. The authors of this article suggest that as more and more students from diverse backgrounds populate 21st century classrooms and efforts mount to identify effective methods to teach these students, the need for pedagogical approaches that are culturally responsive intensifies...

  • Collection and Use of Evidence

    1/1/05 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

    Notice the number of times that data and evidence appear in NCCRESt’s principles. Saying that teachers, families and administrators need data to make decisions is one thing, understanding and using data well is another. In fact, few teachers and administrators have been educated in programs that have focused on making meaning from data and then using those analyses to guide school improvement and classroom instruction. This module is designed to help building leadership teams learn the...

  • Cultural Responsive Pedagogy and Practice

    1/1/08 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

    Culturally responsive pedagogy and practice facilitates and supports the achievement of all students. In a culturally responsive classrooms and schools, effective teaching and learning occur in a culturally-supported, learner-centered context, whereby the strengths students bring to school are identified, nurtured, and utilized to promote student achievement.

  • Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention

    1/1/08 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

    Participants in this professional learning module will become familiar with the basic structures and features of culturally responsive RTI with a focus on ensuring that general education provides robust, high quality opportunities to learn for all students. Participants will also identify traditional attitudes related to what counts as evidence in research and practice, expand upon these views, and design interventions for their own pedagogy that take into account the role of culture in...

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    Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender,and Questioning Youth Matter!

    1/1/09 - Kathleen A. King, Equity Alliance at ASU

    Presents general trends in the social and emotional well-being of youth who identify as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ), followed by a guide of sexual orientation definitions. Additionally, readers learn a series of steps that schools must address in order to build inclusive, safe, and effective schools for all students, including those who identify as GLBTQ.

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    How Multiple Intelligences Theory Can Guide Teachers' Practices: Ensuring Success for Students with Disabilities

    1/1/04 - Edward Garcia Fierros, Equity Alliance at ASU

    This On Point was produced by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). It is about the Gardner's multiple intelligences (MI) theory and it is implications for Special Education. This On Point applies to all students having Special Education services and families and teachers of people with disabilities. In MI theory, Gardner indicated that the intelligence of children (i.e., thinking, problem solving, and creating) is valued differently depending on the family and...

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    Keeping the Faith and Climbing One Mountain at a Time: Reflections of Two Mothers on Their Children's Educational Journeys

    1/1/04 - Marquita Grenot-Scheyer , Hilda Sramek , Evelyne Milorin, Equity Alliance at ASU

    In this OnPoint we share the accounts of two mothers who have faced many challenges posed by schools and other human services agencies. Despite these challenges, discouragements, and setbacks, these two families, like many others of their “generation,” have endured, met the challenges, and developed a remarkable resiliency.

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    On Inclusion and the Other Kids: Here’s What Research Shows so Far About Inclusion’s Effect on Nondisabled Students

    1/1/05 - Deb Staub, Equity Alliance at ASU

    Inclusion is receiving lots of attention, both in school districts across the country and in the popular media. Most of that attention is focused on how inclusion affects the students with disabilities. But what about the students who don’t have disabilities?

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    Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions

    1/1/06 - Shernaz B. García, Alba A. Ortiz, Equity Alliance at ASU

    This practitioner brief deals with culturally and linguistically responsive prereferral interventions for preventing disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in special education. It applies to all parents and teachers of CLD students. Disproportionate representation of students from CLD backgrounds in special education has been a persistent concern in the field for more than 30 years. A key question in dealing with disproportionality in special...

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    Reconceptualizing Continuing Professional Development: A Framework for Planning

    1/1/06 - Diane L. Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU

    Teachers’ professional preparation, along with their working conditions, has been identified as fundamental to improving elementary and secondary education for the 21st Century (Darling-Hammond, 1997). A recent report by the National Center for Education Statistics (1997) reveals that many teachers are not adequately prepared for their teaching assignments even at initial licensure. This situation is worse in urban districts where significant numbers of teachers are not licensed, where...

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    Systemic Change Framework – Rubrics Assessment Handbook

    1/1/06 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

    The rubrics in this publication have been designed to help your inclusive schools network assess their current status and identify specific goals for the coming year. Based on the systemic change framework and vignettes from the National Institute for Urban School Improvement’s (NIUSI) network of schools, these rubrics provide a yardstick for measuring your improvement efforts.

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    ¡Sí Se Puede!An Example of an Exemplary Bilingual/ESL Program

    1/1/07 - Laura Méndez Barletta , Equity Alliance at ASU

    In this exemplar, Harrison Elementary School’s Bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) program is featured as a Model Program. Harrison Elementary’s Bilingual/ESL program was one of four programs honored as “Outstanding Second Language Programs” at the headquarters of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association in Monroe, New Jersey. Such exemplary programs are identified through a rigorous process that includes an extensive program review and a site visit conducted by...

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    Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among students who are English language learners in three New York State districts

    1/1/10 - Maria Teresa Sánchez, Caroline Parker, Bercem Akbayln, Anna McTigue

    "To help districts accurately identify students who are English language learners and also have learning disabilities, this study examines practices and challenges in the processes applied in three New York State districts in identifying learning disabilities among students who are English language learners. Using interviews with district and school personnel and documents from state and district web sites, the study finds both similarities and differences in practices, with more differences...

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    North Carolina’s ABCD Program: Using Community Care Networks to Improve the Delivery of Childhood Developmental Screening and Referral to Early Intervention Services

    1/1/09 - Sarah Klein , DouglasMcCarthy

    Between 2004 and 2008, North Carolina’s Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) program quintupled the number of screening tests administered during Medicaid well-child visits to identify young children at risk for developmental disabilities and delays. Referrals to Early Intervention programs quadrupled, helping to increase the percentage of infants and toddlers receiving Early Intervention services statewide-from an estimated 3.0 percent in 2003 to 4.3 percent in 2008. As a...

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