Project LEER - Agenda
by Richard Boon
Hi Everyone,
I'm traveling to Region One ESC tomorrow.
Please see the agenda items to discuss below.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Richard
* Region One ESC - Special Education Institute June 11-13 Exhibitor Table (Richard)
* Region One ESC - PD titles/abstracts for 2024-2025 (Mack, Richard, & Denise)
* IRB approval for multiple languages at BU/TAMU/UTSA (Lisa S)
* SAISD - Lanier HS and Tafolla MS are a go for PD/CWPT (Richard)
* Sent When2meet link to schedule meeting to discuss materials for CWPT (Mack, Lisa BP, Zohreh, Eboni, & Kathy)
* Marshall HS - Begin study on Tuesday, September 3 (Richard)
* Mr. Schraub/Ms. Su sent academic calendar, TEKS, etc. (Richard)
* Mr. Schraub/Ms. Su did not get $1,000 stipend yet (Mack & Kathy)
* PD at UTSA - Friday, June 21 at 10:00am (Lisa BP & Richard)
* Website (Lisa S & Virginia)
* Annual/Quarterly Report - Put due dates from Steve on calendar for each year (Lisa S, Virginia, or Cameron)
* Annual/Quarterly Report - Besides our notes, we should keep track of PD/CWPT trainings with numbers (separate document) in Dropbox (Lisa S, Virginia, or Cameron)
5 months, 2 weeks
SCR and ELs
by Burke, Mack
Would someone pull this-
Doris Luft Baker, Catherine Richards‐Tutor, Anthony Sparks, Rebecca Canges, Review of Single Subject Research Examining the Effectiveness of Interventions for At‐Risk English Learners, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 10.1111/ldrp.12160, 33, 2, (64-74), (2018).
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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
5 months, 2 weeks
Dear Colleague Letter
by Burke, Mack
FYI- looking over the Dear Colleague letter on educational policy for ELs and ELs with Disabilities. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). I looks like very similar language as we are seeing in special education around inclusion and full inclusion…they want them integrated into English speaking classrooms ASAP. Look through at their examples…I keep thinking a lot of bilingual programs might actually be out of compliance in an audit. MDB
“We assume that the segregation resulting from a language remediation program would be minimized to the greatest extent possible and that the programs would have as a goal the integration of the Spanish-speaking student into the English language classroom as soon as possible.”).”
5 months, 2 weeks
Re: Project LEER - Tafolla MS (SAISD)
by Perrott, Lisa J
Woo hoo! Thanks Dr. Boon! 😀
Lisa Bowman-Perrott, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Haynes Faculty Fellow
Department of Educational Psychology
Special Education Division
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4225
(979) 862-3879 (office)
(979) 862-1256 (fax)
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Hi Everyone, I met with Ms. Henry and Ms. Boyd, Assistant Principals, at Tafolla MS in SAISD this morning and we are a go for PD and CWPT. https: //schools. saisd. net/page/061. homepage Thanks! Kind regards, Richard
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Hi Everyone,
I met with Ms. Henry and Ms. Boyd, Assistant Principals, at Tafolla MS in SAISD this morning and we are a go for PD and CWPT.
https://schools.saisd.net/page/061.homepage<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://schools.saisd.net/page/061.homepage__...>
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Richard
5 months, 2 weeks
FW: [EXTERNAL] Project LEER 2024-2025
by Richard Boon
Hi Everyone,
Just FYI.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Richard
From: Wesley Schraub <wesley.schraub(a)nisd.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9:46 AM
To: Richard Boon <Richard.Boon(a)utsa.edu>
Cc: Susie Su <susie.su(a)nisd.net>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Project LEER 2024-2025
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Good morning Dr. Boon I hope all is well with you,
I am reaching out to you to confirm that we will be continuing the project LEER next school year. I have already completed the 1st 9 weeks calendar with the TEKS included.
I personally built Fridays for enrichment vocabulary (If that is helpful) because we will for sure have more EB's next school year.
I am also attaching the "Year at a glance" calendar as well as the Northside academic calendar.
I have also attached the individual TEKS/ "KUD's" to this email (please let me know if you can access them)
The only information I current do not have is my class schedule but I should get that in June.
Please let me know your thoughts on this at your earliest convenience.
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Sincerely,
Wesley J. Schraub
Science Dept.
John Marshall HS
210-397-7100
5 months, 3 weeks
FW: [EXTERNAL] Project LEER 2024-2025
by Richard Boon
Hi Everyone,
Just FYI.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Richard
From: Richard Boon
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 11:22 PM
To: Wesley Schraub <wesley.schraub(a)nisd.net>
Cc: Susie Su <susie.su(a)nisd.net>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Project LEER 2024-2025
Hi Mr. Schraub & Ms. Su,
Great!
Yes, we are excited to continue working with you both at Marshall HS.
I’ll read through the documents and will be back in touch with you shortly.
Thanks SO MUCH for following up on this!
Kind regards,
Richard
From: Wesley Schraub <wesley.schraub(a)nisd.net<mailto:wesley.schraub@nisd.net>>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9:46 AM
To: Richard Boon <Richard.Boon(a)utsa.edu<mailto:Richard.Boon@utsa.edu>>
Cc: Susie Su <susie.su(a)nisd.net<mailto:susie.su@nisd.net>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Project LEER 2024-2025
**EXTERNAL EMAIL**
This email originated outside of The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Please exercise caution when clicking on links or opening attachments.
Good morning Dr. Boon I hope all is well with you,
I am reaching out to you to confirm that we will be continuing the project LEER next school year. I have already completed the 1st 9 weeks calendar with the TEKS included.
I personally built Fridays for enrichment vocabulary (If that is helpful) because we will for sure have more EB's next school year.
I am also attaching the "Year at a glance" calendar as well as the Northside academic calendar.
I have also attached the individual TEKS/ "KUD's" to this email (please let me know if you can access them)
The only information I current do not have is my class schedule but I should get that in June.
Please let me know your thoughts on this at your earliest convenience.
--
Sincerely,
Wesley J. Schraub
Science Dept.
John Marshall HS
210-397-7100
5 months, 3 weeks
UN-CRPD
by Burke, Mack
Something for all you smart people to contend with…we have been writing about the United Nations CRPD which is trickling into the US literature- for those interested in cross cultural issues- this issue of what is universal and what is particular is a bit deal here. Without universals- there is no such thing as a human right (which is the traditional Enlightenment view from the 1700s- that universals exist).
Since the 1970s, we have moved to particulars, especially on cultural and identity issues, hardened by anti-modernist views. One way to think about it, is to go through each article and ask- is that something that should be cross cultural in nature, and if so, how? Article 24 is the one on education and inclusion of disabilities.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-ri...
There is a lot to like about the CRPD but a couple of sour pickles. The US is a signee but did not ratify…in part, over “particulars.” The basis is one of full inclusion…which is causing some countries (Italy, Spain, etc.) to dismantle their existing special education systems. It has been an issue in the US since at least the 1980s, to what extent can inclusion of students with disabilites be pushed through modification of general curriculum (today the accommodation/modification discussion has been replaced by one of Universal Design for Learning and differentiated instruction. I think Dr. Sanchez brought it up as an issue where in Texas at a recent meeting on “pull out” programs for direct skill teaching are replaced by “push in” programs in the general classroom.
For the bilingual focused folks- the discussion extends to you as well. There are groups that would also see bilingual education as one of segregation and exclusion, and argue that it should be collapsed into the regular education setting as well through UDL for language and those resources be redistributed to support all students for equity purposes.
Most of the discussion on language is around blind, deaf, or deaf-blind issues.
1. Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deafblind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development.
Theresia Degener who was the UNCRPD chair and from Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany who was impacted by Thalidomide poisoning, a sleeping aide that caused birth defects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresia_Degener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
This one is interesting on her views of the Human Rights model of disability. I haven’t read the second- but the idea looks like this is the replacement for the social model. For background, former President Obama had pledged to signed the treaty as senator- actually surprised he didn’t while he was in office, but the US is protective over sovereignty issues and that might be the reason. And, you see there are important aspects of the view but some concerns…even though it is always hard to go against people on the other side of an issue with a disability themselves or a family with a child with one.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/5/3/35
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43790-3_2
A couple of interviews- one from Berkley where she graduated with her law degree in the US. Judith Heumann is on it as well who was a well-known disability rights activist in the US…I think she might have recently passed away.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-center-on-comparative-equa...
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5 months, 3 weeks