Title: Special Education For Administrators
1Special Education For Administrators
- Module 2
- Improving The Instructional Program
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2Module 2 Agenda
- Day One
- Focus Activity
- Norms of Operation
- Exceptionalities and Action Research Assignment
- Walkthrough Epsteins Model of Partnerships
- Setting Direction
- Leading the Instructional Program
- Future Trends in Special Education
- Day Two
- IEPs and Instructional Leadership examined
- School Effectiveness Framework Components 2 and
4 - Inclusion/Segregated Classes
- Mental Health
- Post and Pre Assignments
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3Norms of Operation
- Go slow to go fast
- Listen and speak with an open mind
- Take risks
- Respect others and ourselves
- Leave positions at the door
- What we say here stays here
- Begin, end, and transition on time
4Quote to share
- Read the following to yourself
- Effective principals do not allow managerial
tasks to consume their days. They create
adequate time to focus on being the instructional
leaders of their schools. It is the key part of
their job. - Discuss with an elbow partner how you
- demonstrate that you are an instructional
leader for your students with special needs.
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5Voices of Our Students and Parents
- Reach Every Student
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvNZVV4Ciccgfeature
related - http//www.thestar.com/living/article/1126164--the
-maternit21-ltd-test-could-make-people-with-down-s
yndrome-a-rarity - http//resources.curriculum.org/secretariat/framew
ork/curriculum7.shtm Grade 7/8 Length 353l - Whats your view?
6 The Leadership Framework
- Inspire a shared vision of leadership in schools
and boards - Promote a common language that fosters an
understanding of what leadership and what it
means to be a leader - Identify the competencies and practices that
describe effective leadership and guide
professional learning
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7Strategies For the Principal as Improving the
Instructional Program in Special Education
Walk-Through
Crucial Conversations
PLTs
Focused Task Forces
Group Learning
Leaders Strategies
Talented and Gifted
Book Reviews
Mentoring Matters
Committee Leadership
Thinking Breakfasts
Periodicals Periodically
8Leadership Framework
- Review the Leadership Framework
- Improving The Instructional Program
- On your own identify two or three goals that are
personal to your work in your school today with a
focus on special education. - Wildly Important Goals (WIGS)
- How will your Personal Leadership Resources
social, cognitive, and psychological drive your
work? - Think- Pair- Share your goals
9Review of Group Assignment Categories of
Exceptionalities
- Research in a group of two/three an area of
exceptionality as identified in the Education Act - Include the following
- Category of exceptionality including the Ministry
criteria e.g., intellectual, deaf/hard of
hearing - Definition of the exceptionality Ministry and
Board - Student learning strengths and challenges
- Instructional, environmental and
assessment/evaluation strategies for
accommodation integration and inclusion - Differentiation of instruction and learning
- Differentiation of assessment for, as and of
learning.
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10Group Assignment Categories of Exceptionalities
- Based on the exceptionality what are best
practices? - What would a demonstration classroom for this
exceptionality look like, sound like, feel like? - How as the principal or vice principal will you
utilize change theory to move your school forward
in terms of best practices for students with this
exceptionality? - What would be the best resources for students
with this exceptionality? Include community,
school, and web based. - Discuss the manifestations of behaviour that may
be seen with this exceptionality. How as a
principal or vice principal would you mitigate
discipline based on the exceptionality? Develop a
case study and discuss how you would mitigate
based on the case you develop. - How will you engage parents? Use Dr. Joyce
Epsteins six types for parent and community
partnerships as your framework. - Research and discuss the intersection of race,
socio-economic status (SES) and identification of
a disability. - Design a Walkthrough for ISP classrooms for
students with this exceptionality.
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11Categories of Exceptionalities
- Presentation of Final Product
- Experiential activity so that the audience knows
what it feels like to have the exceptionality
that you are presenting. (10 to 15 minutes) - PowerPoint presentation to staff, parent
community with handouts. (10 to 15 minutes)
(emailed to all) - Walkthrough with handouts (10 to 15 minutes)
- Each candidate will provide a one page personal
reflection based on key concepts from this
exercise including next steps for personal growth
to be submitted to the instructor. - Reflection and PowerPoint documents are to be
submitted to the instructor electronically. - Be prepared to share your research and
information with the group during Modules 3 and 4.
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12Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy
- Theoretical Underpinning
- caring for students (academic, social and
emotional well being)
Growth is expected in academics and
behaviour Necessary supports are
provided High-Yield Teaching Strategies Precise
and Consistent Assessment AS FOR Learning
Asset based approach to families/communities-not
deficit Utilize Students Cultures as a Vehicle
for Learning Connections to Knowledge of Families
and Communities Students Social Identities and
Lived Realities are Valued and Respected
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Students develop a broader socio-political
consciousness Students critique the cultural
norms, values, mores, and institutions that
produce and maintain social inequities
Gloria Ladson-Billings
13Walkthrough
- Equity Walkthrough Template
- https//www.principals.ca/stream/video/launchVid.a
spx?vidID21Stop on Its Up to You
14THE KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIPS DR. JOYCE EPSTEINS SIX TYPES OF
INVOLVEMENT
PARENTING Assist families in understanding
child and adolescent development, and in setting
home conditions that support children as students
at each age and grade level. Assist schools in
understanding families.
COMMUNICATING Communicate with families about
school programs and student progress through
effective school-to-home and home-to-school
communications.
VOLUNTEERING Improve recruitment, training,
work, and schedules to involve families as
volunteers and audiences at school or in other
locations to support students and school programs.
LEARNING AT HOME Involve families with their
children in learning activities at home,
including homework, other curriculum- related
activities, and individual course and program
decisions.
DECISION MAKING Include families as
participants in school decisions, governance,
and advocacy through School Council, committees,
action teams, and other parent organizations.
COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY Coordinate
resources and services for students, families,
and the school with businesses, agencies, and
other groups, and provide services to the
community.
15Epstein School, Family, Community Partnership
Special Education Department
- Parenting
- Offer 6 week discussed based course on parenting
my child with special needs - Information regarding parenting the child with
special needs is available on the website - Communication
- Special Education Plan/ Board Improvement Plan
- Presentations on IEP/IPRC/Shared Solutions
giving voice also shared on DVDs - Website
- Brochures
- Ward meetings
- Good news stories
- Conferences
- Procedures
- Volunteering
- On committees, in special education classes, on
SEAC, in integrated settings, class parents,
partnering - Learning at Home
- How I can help my child at home by exceptionality
? format Webcasts, Curriculum Services Canada - Present workshops on Strength Resiliency Training
- Assistive technology workshops/website
information - Access to assistive technology at home Read and
Write Gold
16 ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL EXAMPLES for a
One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships to IMPROVE
MATH SKILLS by 3
MATH GOAL
TYPE 1 PARENTING Workshops for parents to explain how to help children with math at home and to demonstrate and discuss how math skills are taught to students
TYPE 2 COMMUNICATING Articles for parents in school or class newsletters or posted on the school Web site by students and math teachers on interesting math topics and skills
TYPE 3 VOLUNTEERING Volunteer math tutors to assist students who need one-on-one tutoring and extra help with specific math skills
TYPE 4 LEARNING AT HOME Weekly interactive homework assignments for students to demonstrate mastery of a math skill for family partners and to discuss how each skill is used in everyday situations
TYPE 5 DECISION MAKING School Council involvement in planning a Family Math Night for fun and learning
TYPE 6 COLLABORATING WITH THE COMMUNITY After-school programs funded by business and community partners to provide students with extra help and enrichment activities in math
AND MANY OTHER IDEAS FOR EACH TYPE OF INVOLVEMENT AND MANY OTHER IDEAS FOR EACH TYPE OF INVOLVEMENT
17 HIGH SCHOOL EXAMPLES for a One-Year Action Plan
for Partnerships to IMPROVE POSTSECONDARY PLANNING
COLLEGE CAREER GOAL
TYPE 1
Workshops for parents and students on course
credits and requirements for high school
graduation, financial aid, pathways, and career
planning
TYPE 2
Series of DVDs for families to learn about high
school graduation requirements and postsecondary
planning
TYPE 3
Field trips for students and parents to
apprenticeship programs, local colleges and
universities
TYPE 4
Interactive homework that requires students to
discuss their academic goals and career plans
with a family partner and to outline strategies
for reaching these goals
TYPE 5
A postsecondary planning committee of parents,
teachers, and students to implement a series of
activities on career options from 9th to 12th
grade
TYPE 6
Careers club linking students and families with
alumni from the school to increase knowledge and
actions on postsecondary pathways and
opportunities
AND MANY OTHER IDEAS FOR EACH TYPE OF INVOLVEMENT
18Debrief
- Look at the elementary and secondary examples of
work plans and how this relates to you as a
principal. - What would you be able to do in your school
regarding students who have special education
needs? - What further support do you need to use the
Walkthrough Framework and the Epstein Model?
19Review - Option 1 Collaborative Inquiry
- Select an exceptionality to focus on.
- Decide on your question.
- Provide a rationale for the investigation.
- Gather baseline suspension data your school and
TDSB. - Examine your office referrals and behaviour
patterns of students with this exceptionality. - Design a questionnaire and/or use interviews or
surveys to obtain data. Gather and analyze the
information. - Research this exceptionality in terms of
behavioural manifestations that may arise due to
the exceptionality. For example, Exceptionality
Behaviour OCD, ODD, and ADHD. Create an annotated
bibliography. - Examine two students IEPs who have been
frequently suspended with this exceptionality for
SMART goals and personalized and precision
teaching. Share your reflections on the IEPs. - Reflect on equity issues.
- Provide professional learning for your staff or
for a school staff on the manifestations of the
behaviour. Submit a workshop that you will use
with staff. - Write a final report including appendices of
tests, surveys, questionnaires, etc administered
in your inquiry
20Review - Option 2 Collaborative Inquiry
- Develop a question
- Share a rationale for the investigation.
- Candidate selects two students identified
exceptional - Review IEPs
- Complete an OSR review for each student.
- Analyze IEPs for SMART Goals, specificity/instruct
ional strategies, detail in IEP/ personalized/
precision - Investigate the instructional strategies in the
classrooms - Decide on how and where change much be
implemented and develop a plan - Investigate the progress of the student
(diagnostic, formative, summative) - Interview the parents/guardians
- Interview the students
- Interview the teachers and the special education
teams - Analyze the information gathered
- Research best practices, conduct a literature
review and submit an annotated bibliography. - Reflect on equity issues.
- Work with the teacher/team/parents to implement
personalized and precise teaching strategies - Assess progress
- Decide on next steps
- Write a final report including appendices of
tests, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, etc
administered in your inquiry
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22School Effectiveness FrameworkComponent
2School and Classroom Leadership
- A support for school improvement and student
success!
Goal Indicators Where we are now? Where do we want to be? What student work/evidence will tell us we are there? What do we have to do differently? Who can help us? Who is monitor-ing? What? When? How?
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
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23School Effectiveness FrameworkComponent
4Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
- A support for school improvement and student
success!
Goal Indicators Where we are now? Where do we want to be? What student work/evidence will tell us we are there? What do we have to do differently? Who can help us? Who is monitor-ing? What? When? How?
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
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24Leadership
- Reflect while viewing the clips from the SEF and
be prepared to share - Have you observed the instructional practices
being used for your students with special needs
and if so, what did you learn? - Have you fostered leadership/created many leaders
to provide the needed supports for your students
with special needs? - In what ways have you facilitated staff planning
and learning together to further the success of
your students with special needs and did you
attend the PLC with your staff? - In what ways have you specifically supported best
practices/ high quality instruction for students
with special needs? - How have you enabled co-planning, co-teaching and
co-assessing that supports students with special
needs?
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25School Effectiveness Framework
- Component 2 School and Classroom Leadership
- 2.4 Job-embedded and inquiry-based professional
learning builds capacity, informs instructional
practice and contributes to a culture of learning - http//www.curriculum.org/secretariat/framework/le
adership4.shtmlStreaming WMV Option Length 228
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26Leadership and Student Learning
After teaching, the second most influential
factor on student learning is leadership (shared
formal and informal).
Most-effective leadership dimension ? promoting
and participating in teacher learning and
development
Vivian Robinson, 2007, School Leadership and
Student Outcomes Identifying What Works and Why
in Earl and Katz, Creating a Culture of Inquiry
in Blankstein, 2010 Data Enhanced Leadership
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27Component 4 Curriculum, Teaching
SEF - Component 4 Curriculum, Teaching and
Learning
- Indicators
- Reinforce the importance of teaching and learning
through alignment of curriculum, instruction,
assessment and resources in order to meet the
diverse learning needs of students. Grades 912 - http//resources.curriculum.org/secretariat/frame
work/curriculum5.shtml - Streaming WMV Option Length 232
- Develop policies and funding to help ensure that
learning resources are current, culturally
relevant and inclusive. http//resources.curriculu
m.org/secretariat/framework/curriculum6.shtml - Streaming WMV Option Length 220
- Timely and tiered interventions, supported by a
team approach, respond to individual student
learning needs. - http//resources.curriculum.org/secretariat/framew
ork/curriculum6.shtml Grades 78 - Streaming WMV Option Length 205
28 Student Work
One of the most powerful ways to ensure that any
(learning team) stays focused whether within or
across schools is by making sure that it is
anchored by actual student work. p. 76 Having
actual student work is at the center of the
collaborative inquiry exercise. It creates the
opportunity for evidence-driven, focused
professional learning conversations. p. 76
Katz, Earl, Jaafar, 2009 (Corwin)
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29Professional Learning Cycle
- For each unit/module
- PLAN
- examine student data and work to identify areas
of need - determine/access professional learning in order
to address areas of student need and to
differentiate to reach all - ACT/OBSERVE
- implement, adjust, engage in professional
learning, share practice - REFLECT
- examine student data and work to determine
impact, lessons learned, next steps for student
and educator learning
- STUDENT LEARNING
- EDUCATOR LEARNING
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30OBSERVE SHARED PRACTICE SCENARIOS
- They are not just accountable for creating the
conditions in which results might happen
accountability presumably resting with teachers
but rather they are responsible to ensure that
results do happen. Ken Leithwood - Please see handout
- Co-assessing Student Work
- Co-teaching
- Peer Observation
- Marker Students/Data and Evidence
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31- Debra King identifies six tasks that comprise
Instructional Leadership -The Principal - Leads learning
- Participates in regular, collaborative,
professional learning experiences, working with
teachers in adult learning activities, and
developing a broad knowledge base in curriculum,
instruction, and assessment - Focuses on teaching and learning
- Helps teachers improve instructional practices
and makes student achievement the schools
highest priority - Develops leadership capacity
- Distributes leadership responsibilities to
include those who have no formal leadership roles
and provide regular opportunities for all
stakeholders to share what they are learning
about their practice
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32- Creates conditions for professional learning
- provides regular opportunities for stakeholders
to work on teaching/learning issues - allocates time during the school day to work on
teaching/learning issues - participates with colleagues to give and receive
feedback about performance - Uses data to inform decisions
- collects and uses data from a variety of sources
- works with a variety of stakeholders to interpret
and create improvement plans - answers questions about student achievement and
trends in achievement - Uses resources creatively
- uses time, money and people to foster school
improvement - uses the school schedule to support student
achievement
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33 Instructional Leadership
- Activity
- Think first of what you are doing currently in
each category (1-6) - What are you doing in your school to demonstrate
your instructional leadership for students who
have special needs? Think about your personal
practice. - You will be then sharing on a Consulting Line
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34Consulting Line.
Candidates stand opposite one another Each have 2
minutes to Give and Get One Then everyone
rotates one person to the left
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35Future Trends in Special Education
- Individual Presentations to share trends
- Handouts
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36Ministry of EducationDistrict Reviews
- The SEF is the lens for school improvement
province wide - Candidates are expected to collate the School
Effectiveness Framework placemats completed in
each module as evidence of school improvement
goals in preparation for their school district
review - As well, goals selected for your school should be
highlighted on the general overview sheet
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37Special Education OverviewMinistry of Education
Strategic Directions
Overall Goals High levels of student
achievement Reduced gaps in student
achievement Increased public confidence and
support for public education
- Special Education Policy and Programs Branch
(SEPPB) - Goals for Special Education
- Improved outcomes for students receiving special
education - Increased capacity of schools to effectively meet
the needs of a variety of learners in settings
ranging from typical to intensive support
classrooms - Improved balance between a focus on teaching and
learning, and the need for appropriate process,
documentation and accountability - More cooperative connections between schools and
families of students facing learning challenges
promoting a positive environment
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39Individual Education Plans
- The Special Education Policy and Programs Branch
(SEPPB) has now posted 50 IEP samples on the
Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE)
website - http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/IEP-PEI/index.html
- http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/IEP-PEI/IEP-PEI_Eng
_Downloads/Sept-09/Autism20-20elem20-.pdf - http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/IEP-PEI/IEP-PEI_Eng
_Downloads/DD_Elm.pdf - http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/IEP-PEI/IEP-PEI_Eng
_Downloads/MID-Sec.pdf - http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/IEP-PEI/IEP-PEI_Eng
_Downloads/Sept-09/gifted20-20sec20-.pdf - The samples are written using the provincial
electronic IEP template - Professional Activity Day resources to support
IEPs are available on the CODE website which may
be found at - http//www.ontariodirectors.ca/PA_Day/index_en.htm
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40Improving The Instructional Program Through IEPs
- IEP journeys tell the story of one of the
students selected including - The process that was used to gather data to be
used to inform your decision making - How did you use the data to construct the IEP?
- How was the School Support Team used?
- Describe the IPRC process if the student was
brought to IPRC Do we have the will to educate
all students? - AsaDo we have the will to educate all
students? -
Asa Hilliard (1991) Hilliard (1991)
41Levelling IEPs
- Candidates will review an existing rubric and add
to the rubric missing components in order to
level the IEPs - Some possibilities of missing
- components
- Use of SMART Goals
- Precise/personalized to the child
42DOING
KNOWING
IEPs AND CHANGE THEORY
- Staff may see barriers to implementing IEPs due
to changes that need to occur in the
instructional practices - Consider how you might use your knowledge of
change theory to support the changes that need to
occur - If you dont like change, youre going to like
irrelevance even less. - General Eric Shinseki, former
U.S. Army Chief of Staff
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44School Effectiveness Framework School and
Classroom Leadership Component 2 and
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Component 4
- Review the goals outlined in Component 2 and
Component 4 - Think of your Wildly Important Goal (WIG)
- Select the goals that fit with your WIG, School
and DSB goals for these areas in relation to
Special Education - Complete both charts with one or two focus areas
for each component - Share with your elbow partner key issues for
change!
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45Strategies Principals can use to eliminate the
following barriers to Student Achievement
- Your view what is best for students with
special needs? - Share your thoughts with a think-pair-share.
- School structures that marginalize, segregate,
and impede achievement, such as pull out
programs - A deprofessionalized teaching staff who could
benefit from focused staff development - A school climate that needs to be more welcoming
to marginalized families and the community and - Disparate student achievement levels
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46Special Education and Mental Health
- Schools and school boards play an important role
in promoting awareness, prevention, and early
intervention, and in connecting students to
community services, the strategy explicitly
recognizes the need to build school-based
capacity in this area. - Supporting Minds http//www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/docu
ment/reports/SupportingMinds.pdf
47New Ministry Policy Memorandum
- The Ministry of Education has just released
Policy/Program Memorandum 156 Supporting
Transitions for Students with Special Education
Needs. A transition plan must be developed for
all students who have an IEP, whether or not they
have been identified as exceptional by an IPRC
and including those identified as exceptional
solely on the basis of giftedness. The transition
plan is developed as part of the IEP. - The requirements of this memorandum take effect
September 2, 2014. - What steps will you to take to prepare your staff
for implementation - View PPM 156 http//www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/pp
m/ppm156.pdf
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49POST ASSIGNMENTS ( 5 HOURS)
- Reflective Journal
- Identify three key areas of learning from Module
2 and outline how you have implemented the
content or strategies in your daily practice and
how each demonstrates the connections to the
personal goals you identified in the OLF and the
component(s) reviewed in the SEF. - Do Schools Kill Creativity?
- Ken Robinson from Ted Talks View TED Talk
- Candidates are asked to view the TED TALK
webcast, and then complete the Module 2
discussion topic Do Schools Kill Creativity. - Identify a time how your LEADERSHIP has created a
culture in which creativity thrives and is
actively nurtured and supported in and outside of
the classroom. - Complete the following assignments as directed by
your Instructor - Ontario Leadership Framework Chart 2013
- SEF Component 2 - School and Classroom Leadership
- SEF Component 4 - Curriculum, Teaching and
Learning
50MODULE 3 PRE-ASSIGNMENTS ( 5 HOURS)
All pre-assignments are located at
www.principals.ca in my folder SPECED ACCESS