Cancel
by Burke, Mack
Let's cancel today's meeting- Dr. BP and RB are doing training and some others have emailed me with emergencies.
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6 months, 4 weeks
Meeting today
by Sanchez, Lisa
Good morning!
I'm still waiting at the dentist office for CiCi to be done, and then I need to run her back to school. I will hop on as soon as I can. If someone could take notes in the meantime that would be great!
Thanks,
Lisa
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6 months, 4 weeks
travel reimbursements
by Burke, Mack
Just a reminder- if you have travel reimbursements- make sure you file them- and touch base with me if you need help- I likely will not be much help- but can figure out who to ask…😊
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6 months, 4 weeks
Fwd: Did you #HaveYourSay?
by Burke, Mack
See the embedded link on “full response” letter around neurodiversity- interesting read- and LD as used here in the UK is more like intellectual or developmental disabilities in the US if I remember correctly- they retain the older notions of dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia instead.
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FW: Project DIVERSE - Speaker Series (Dr. Zohreh Eslami)
by Burke, Mack
Good for us to try and make it this Friday also- MDB
From: Richard Boon <Richard.Boon(a)utsa.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 8:22 AM
To: project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu <project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu>, Celeste Martinez <celeste.martinez2(a)my.utsa.edu>, Monica Johnson <monica.johnson(a)esc12.net>
Subject: [Project.diverse] Project DIVERSE - Speaker Series (Dr. Zohreh Eslami)
Hi Everyone,
I am delighted to inform you that our second speaker will be Dr. Zohreh Eslami, Professor of Educational Psychology, from Texas A&M University.
https://directory.education.tamu.edu/view/368
Title: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education: Embracing Inclusive Practices
Friday, April 26 at 5:30pm
https://utsa.zoom.us/j/96626699870
Thanks SO MUCH!
Kind regards,
Dr. Boon
7 months
Inclusive education in Italy
by Burke, Mack
Here you go- Dimitris and Jim wrote this piece on Full Inclusion in Italy in European Journal of Special Needs Education a few years back- it is that “Full” part that we are worried about…MDB
7 months
Children of the Code
by Burke, Mack
This is an outstanding resource if you are interesting in literacy and reading-
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/index.htm
John Fisher- a Medievalist on The Origins of the English Writing System and the Roots of its Letter – Sound Confusions
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/fisher.htm
I would take a look at the interview by Todd Risley from Hart and Risley- Meaningful Differences- a foundational work in early language development now.
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/risley.htm
Ed Kame’enui- is a native Hawaiian, now retired, we worked with in our own doctoral studies- first introduced me to Thomas Kuhn- and the The Structure of Scientific Revolutions- but became the first director of Special Education Research Division of IES.
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/kameenui.htm
Zig Englemann- father of direct instruction- I talked him into giving the last seminar on Design and Theory of Instruction to our own cohort before he passed away.
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/engelmann2.htm
Reid Lyon is also now retired- was Director of NICHD at the National Institutes of Health-
https://childrenofthecode.org/interviews/lyon.htm
UNCONSCIONABLE:
Dr. Reid Lyon: So, there is a fascinating set of disconnects that you see among an ostensibly learned and knowledgeable prophesoriat. It’s one of the most silliest things and saddest things I have ever seen. The bottom line is for a country like America to be leaving behind about thirty-eight to forty percent of its youngsters in terms of not learning to read is unconscionable.
What makes it equally or doubly unconscionable is if you disaggregate those data, seventy percent approximately of young African Americans kids can’t read. Seventy percent! If you look at Hispanic kids, the figure is sixty-five to seventy percent. That means we are producing failure where it doesn’t have to be. We know what we can do to help those youngsters; we know how to get to them early; we know how to identify these kids at risk, at four or five years of age; we know how to bring to bear good evidence-based programs that if applied and implemented will move those kids all the way from the tenth percentile right up to the average range, to be concrete. We can reduce illiteracy in many of our research sites – in real classrooms in real schools with real kids at risk where ninety-eight percent are free and reduced lunch, and eighty percent are a minority. That is seventy percent of kids leaving the first grade as failing readers reducing to two to six percent when we do it right. When I’m saying we do it right that means we bring to bear what we know from those four questions.
We have to get back to this type of thinking in the field somehow. And it is the same issue/same problem- for decades- and I blame mostly academia for much of the nonsense. This is something we know how to do. MDB
7 months
Re: race, ethnicity, and ancestry
by Burke, Mack
It also doesn’t map exactly onto ethnicity as well depending on the area which is interesting- for example, Egyptians would not consider themselves from Africa I think. Also- the United Kingdom has always considered itself separate from Europe- or “the continent” so Brexit wasn’t too surprising, especially as the British Commonwealth is still intact- there is a reason the Queen or now the King’s picture hangs in the Sydney Airport in Australia- and they will not want to compete with the French or the Germans for leading the EU. Likewise, the Irish, Scotch, Welch consider themselves separate from the English and there is a resurgence of nationalism in all three countries.
Mostly think all the old fault lines are returning in different forms.
From Huntington- have shared once before- but rings true- and at the local, national, and international levels- now plop language, disability, and education issues in the middle of it…MDB
“In the post-Cold War world flags count and so do other symbols of cultural
identity, including crosses, crescents, and even head coverings, because culture
counts, and cultural identity is what is most meaningful to most people. People
are discovering new but often old identities and marching under new but often
old flags which lead to wars with new but often old enemies.
One grim Weltanschauung for this new era was well expressed by the Venetian
nationalist demagogue in Michael Dibdin's novel, Dead Lagoon: "There
can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not,
we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering
after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them
deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves!
They will not lightly be forgiven." The unfortunate truth in these old truths
cannot be ignored by statesmen and scholars. For peoples seeking identity and
reinventing ethnicity, enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous
enmities occur across the fault lines between the world's major civilizations.
The central theme of this book is that culture and cultural identities, which
at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of
cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post-Cold War world. The five
parts of this book elaborate corollaries to this main proposition.”
From: Burke, Mack <Mack_Burke(a)baylor.edu>
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 at 5:07 PM
To: project.leer(a)lists.it.utsa.edu <project.leer(a)lists.it.utsa.edu>, project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu <project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu>
Subject: race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Working on a couple of papers- one on culture and disability.
There are three contested categories- race, ethnicity, and ancestry. Race is considered not biologically accurate and part to wholly socially constructed depending on the person you reference and ethnicity and culture can almost be used interchangeable sometimes- is considered socially constructed but is hardened by some views promoted by critical theory now. For a primer see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
The newcomer is ancestry- In genome research- ancestry is what is being mapped. If you remember Henry Louis Gates Jr. from Obama’s beer summit- he has been going around the country giving people DNA tests- I don’t know if that is good or bad- I wasn’t able to hear his talk.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Presents the Beall-Russell Lecture in the Humanities<https://t.e2ma.net/click/arbrtk/ip39fuhd/eizidw>
April 17 at 3:30 p.m.
Renowned historian, scholar, American literary critic, filmmaker and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents “Finding Your Roots: Genealogy, Genetics, and African-American History” from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Waco Hall, today, April 17. The event is free and open to the public.
I haven’t taken an ancestry test- but I did them on our dogs- one 100% pure blood German Shepard (part capitalist from the west and part communist from the east- they started to import working dogs to the US after the Berlin wall fell (called the “Anti-fascist protection barrier” on the East), and a Pit mix rescue that was listed as a “certified Supermutt!” due to all the combinations.
There is an obsession with race, ethnicity, and ancestry right now that I think is unhealthy- just my opinion, and ancestry seems like just another evolution of race to me, just more accurate. But even if I am 100% Irish or Scotch-Irish- I am not going to join the IRA anytime soon or hate on the English- but maybe someone does join Hamas, ISIS or a neo-Nazi group (I did read some groups were now requiring a DNA test contingent upon acceptance during the initiation process)- opportunities for mischief seem so great to me on this one if people doesn’t start refocusing on universals over particulars- or at least a balance. Here are regional divisions for the world, categorizing populations based on geographical, cultural, and historical factors that genetics now maps people to…
More for you all to help us figure out…MDB
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8202415/
1. Africa:
* Northern Africa: Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan.
* Sub-Saharan Africa: Includes countries south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing diverse ethnic groups, languages, and cultures.
1. Asia:
* East Asia: Countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan.
* Southeast Asia: Includes countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar.
* South Asia: Encompasses countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
* Central Asia: Includes countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
* West Asia (Middle East): Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the Gulf States.
1. Europe:
* Western Europe: Includes countries such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and Spain.
* Eastern Europe: Encompasses countries such as Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova.
* Northern Europe: Includes countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and parts of the United Kingdom and Germany.
* Southern Europe: Encompasses countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and parts of France and Croatia.
* Central Europe: Includes countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and parts of France, Italy, and Croatia.
1. North America:
* United States: Comprising 50 states across the continent.
* Canada: The northernmost country in North America.
* Mexico: Located south of the United States, sharing a border with several U.S. states.
1. South America:
* Brazil: The largest country in South America.
* Argentina: Located in the southern part of the continent.
* Colombia: Located in the northwestern part of South America.
* Peru: Home to ancient civilizations such as the Incas.
1. Oceania:
* Australia: A continent-country located in the Southern Hemisphere.
* New Zealand: Comprising two main islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
* Pacific Islands: Including countries and territories such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, and many others.
7 months
race, ethnicity, and ancestry
by Burke, Mack
Working on a couple of papers- one on culture and disability.
There are three contested categories- race, ethnicity, and ancestry. Race is considered not biologically accurate and part to wholly socially constructed depending on the person you reference and ethnicity and culture can almost be used interchangeable sometimes- is considered socially constructed but is hardened by some views promoted by critical theory now. For a primer see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
The newcomer is ancestry- In genome research- ancestry is what is being mapped. If you remember Henry Louis Gates Jr. from Obama’s beer summit- he has been going around the country giving people DNA tests- I don’t know if that is good or bad- I wasn’t able to hear his talk.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Presents the Beall-Russell Lecture in the Humanities<https://t.e2ma.net/click/arbrtk/ip39fuhd/eizidw>
April 17 at 3:30 p.m.
Renowned historian, scholar, American literary critic, filmmaker and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents “Finding Your Roots: Genealogy, Genetics, and African-American History” from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Waco Hall, today, April 17. The event is free and open to the public.
I haven’t taken an ancestry test- but I did them on our dogs- one 100% pure blood German Shepard (part capitalist from the west and part communist from the east- they started to import working dogs to the US after the Berlin wall fell (called the “Anti-fascist protection barrier” on the East), and a Pit mix rescue that was listed as a “certified Supermutt!” due to all the combinations.
There is an obsession with race, ethnicity, and ancestry right now that I think is unhealthy- just my opinion, and ancestry seems like just another evolution of race to me, just more accurate. But even if I am 100% Irish or Scotch-Irish- I am not going to join the IRA anytime soon or hate on the English- but maybe someone does join Hamas, ISIS or a neo-Nazi group (I did read some groups were now requiring a DNA test contingent upon acceptance during the initiation process)- opportunities for mischief seem so great to me on this one if people doesn’t start refocusing on universals over particulars- or at least a balance. Here are regional divisions for the world, categorizing populations based on geographical, cultural, and historical factors that genetics now maps people to…
More for you all to help us figure out…MDB
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8202415/
1. Africa:
* Northern Africa: Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan.
* Sub-Saharan Africa: Includes countries south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing diverse ethnic groups, languages, and cultures.
2. Asia:
* East Asia: Countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan.
* Southeast Asia: Includes countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar.
* South Asia: Encompasses countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
* Central Asia: Includes countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
* West Asia (Middle East): Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the Gulf States.
3. Europe:
* Western Europe: Includes countries such as France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and Spain.
* Eastern Europe: Encompasses countries such as Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova.
* Northern Europe: Includes countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and parts of the United Kingdom and Germany.
* Southern Europe: Encompasses countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and parts of France and Croatia.
* Central Europe: Includes countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and parts of France, Italy, and Croatia.
4. North America:
* United States: Comprising 50 states across the continent.
* Canada: The northernmost country in North America.
* Mexico: Located south of the United States, sharing a border with several U.S. states.
5. South America:
* Brazil: The largest country in South America.
* Argentina: Located in the southern part of the continent.
* Colombia: Located in the northwestern part of South America.
* Peru: Home to ancient civilizations such as the Incas.
6. Oceania:
* Australia: A continent-country located in the Southern Hemisphere.
* New Zealand: Comprising two main islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
* Pacific Islands: Including countries and territories such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, and many others.
7 months
Re: MTSS and inclusion/sped
by Burke, Mack
Here you go- I went back and pulled form a previous conversations that might be interesting to people as it outlines special and inclusion in the EU-
EU country comparisons with links to the inclusion legislation.
https://www.european-agency.org/country-information
If I understand it- Finland has “part-time special needs education” can provided without a diagnosis- so needs based?
https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-education-systems/finland/sp...
But looks like they still have special schools-
https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-education-systems/finland/se...
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From: Burke, Mack <Mack_Burke(a)baylor.edu>
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Subject: [Project.diverse] MTSS and inclusion/sped
Like I said- every country is reorganizing their systems in some way right now and so we are all watching with interest- passing along- Portugal, Italy and New Zealand (along with New Brunswick, the Canadian province) to be are the four right now to be full inclusion- as differentated from “capacity building or LRE, or emphasis on inclusion-
For New Zealand- they have retained some special schools- now rebranded as “specialist schools”
https://www.education.govt.nz/school/student-support/special-education/sp...
For overall NZ policy
see https://www.education.govt.nz/school/student-support/special-education/
Three tiered MTSS
https://hepikorua.education.govt.nz/how-we-work/flexible-tailored-model-o...
Finland has adopted the three tier framework country wide? I was looking at some readings in preparation for a talk in Finland in November- still a while away, but they are being praised as an inclusion success story and lots of positive attention for their PISA scores. But they retained more traditional special education programing for tier 3 and there is a part time option to receive special education programming under a “non-categorical label” at tier 2. So they more reorganized the system to emphasis inclusion rather than abandoning the system.
I don’t know how they handle the bilingual stuff abroad- there are Russian and Swedish speaking schools in Finland for example- and now a number of Ukrainian refugees (Finland borders Russia)- that they have to keep separate from the Russian students- Globalization 😊
It is the replacement of special education with MTSS and Full Inclusion is going to be an interesting debate coming up in the future- something many of us are trying to get ahead of…MDB
Mack D. Burke, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Psychology
Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education Programs
Behavioral Education & Assessment Research (BEAR Lab)
School of Education, Baylor University
7 months
