article thumbnail

How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

For example, if a student is falling behind in math you can suggest to their family that they attend an after-school math lab. One example would be implementing community-centric training for personnel. Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies. 2004, November). Redding, S.,

How To 259
article thumbnail

How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., Someone with the disability might omit short words such as “and” and “the” while reading aloud, for example, or read “dog” as “god”—even if they speak normally in conversation. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I

Learning 145
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

edWeb.net

In Desert Sands, for example, they wanted to make sure all students could be connected no matter where they lived, but using different service providers—the typical solution—would prove costly over the years. Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. Innovation. You can follow him on Twitter @scaughtsb.

article thumbnail

Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

For example, people with diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, cancer and heart disease are often not cured and, yet, with support and appropriate management, they can live fulfilling lives. These contexts involve social interactions, activities and routines, and biological factors (McAtee, Carr, & Schulte, 2004).

Training 120
article thumbnail

Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid these 7 Pitfalls

MindShift

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. Perusing a bookshop, she came across Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee, originally published in 2004. “I Author Christina Soontornvat was an adult the first time she saw someone who looked like her on a bookshelf.

article thumbnail

In spite of rising tuition, one country manages to shepherd poor kids into college

The Hechinger Report

And while the progress is uneven and vulnerable to still more changes ahead — including a shift next year from grants to loans for students’ living expenses — how they have succeeded shows it can be done, and offers some examples of exactly how. students from affluent areas are 2.4 That’s up from six times more likely in 1970.

Groups 40
article thumbnail

Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.