Educating All Learners Alliance

5 Minutes With ERS

Today we were joined by Karen Hawley Miles who is the president and CEO of Education Resource Strategies, Inc (ERS). ERS is a national non-profit that partners with district, school, and state leaders to transform how they use resources (people, time, and money) so that every school prepares every child for tomorrow, no matter their race or income. In this episode, Karen shares what this process may look like for schools they work with as well as their current efforts to support school funding decision-making, especially with special education teachers in mind.

 

Learn more about ERS and the ways in which they are supporting district and school leaders in their efforts to transform systems through strategic resource decisions.

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

ERS's website: erstrategies.org

EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org

 

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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 05 “It’s almost as if every student has an IEP”

The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities.

 

In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Cecilton’s Principal, Meghan Brown and Assistant Principal, Samantha Wallace to talk about two practices that are central to the school's educational approach: differentiation and goal setting.

 

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Planning Your Future: A Conversation with Two Young Adults on Transition

Planning Your Future: A Guide to Transition, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and National Center for Learning Disabilities, is an exploration of information and opportunities for students with disabilities during the transition to life after high school. 

In this episode, NCLD’s Nicole Fuller speaks with Erin Crosby and Joe Urena, two young adults with learning and attention issues who have also served on NCLD’s Young Adult Leadership Council. They discuss the transition process, starting from planning in high school to college and employment, and how the Planning Your Future resource can be helpful to today’s transition-aged students and young adults.

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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 04 “It really starts with the community”

The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities.

In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Sam Podbelski, Interim Principal of the Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. They discuss the school’s history, how it has developed a culture of inclusion, and how they utilize schoolwide co-teaching. 

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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 03 “Our students with disabilities feel like they can make a difference”

The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities.

In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Jared Savage, Principal of Fairmont Elementary School. They discuss using industry partnerships and student learning communities to expand and enhance learning opportunities for students with disabilities.

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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 02 ”We are a technology-based school”

The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities. 

 

In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Matthew Tyson, Principal of Tapestry Public Charter School. They discuss using technology to personalize learning, and what it means for the school to be fully inclusive by design. 

 

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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 01 “Our model makes space for kids to be who they are”

The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities.

 

In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Jessica Tunney, Principal of Tomorrow’s Leadership Collaborative (TLC) Public Charter School. They discuss two practices that are central to the school’s educational approach: universal accommodations and schoolwide co-teaching.

 

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5 Minutes with Literacy Academy Collective

We spoke with Ruth Genn, one of the Founders of Literacy Academy Collective. Literacy Academy Collective designs and supports NYC Public Schools to bring evidence-based literacy instruction into the classroom. They partner with schools, families, community-based organizations, and institutes of higher education to bring culturally relevant, structured literacy to the most marginalized students at the intersection of race, income, and disability. They aim to to alter life outcomes by allowing children to access learning through literacy.

Learn more about their belief that learning to read is a civil right and the work they're doing to tackle NYC's literacy issues.

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

• Literacy Academy Collective's website: https://www.literacyacademycollective.org/
• EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org

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5 Minutes with Changing Perspectives

In today’s episode, we spoke with Sam Drazin, the Founder and Executive Director of Changing Perspectives. Changing Perspectives is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2013 with the goal of working collaboratively with schools to support initiatives around equity, inclusion, and social-emotional learning for all students. Their goal is to educate, empower and inspire individuals to become the change makers for tomorrow, by helping to build a more inclusive, just, and equitable society.

Learn more about their unique learning models and the ways in which they help bring equitable and inclusive structure to the field of education.

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

• Changing Perspective's website: https://changingperspectivesnow.org/
• EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org

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5 Minutes With Gallaudet University

Today we were joined by Dr. Melissa Herzig, who is the Co-founder and Assistant Director for the Gallaudet University PHD in Educational Neuroscience (pen) Program and Scientific Director of the Translation for the Science of Learning Lab (TL2) at VL2 and her interpreter, Kelsey Mitchell. The NSF Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) works to advance knowledge on how human higher cognition is realized through vision. VL2 seeks to determine the effects of visual processes, visual language, and social experience on the development of cognition, language, reading and literacy for the benefit of society.

 

Learn more about their organization and the ways in which they work to develop new perspectives that enhance learning processes to advance education for all students.

 

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• 5 minutes with Gallaudet University/LV2