Videos

Educational consultant, Tara Kelly, speaks to the difference between family involvement and family engagement.

In this session, emotional well-being and its importance in student success and total health across life stages will be introduced. Attendees will learn and practice evidence-informed strategies for strengthening emotional well-being, with focus on simple strategies for "feeling your best self". Attendees will develop a plan for incorporating teaching and reinforcing use of simple strategies with students.

IDEA B and FERPA have a lot in common. How do you read them together when facing a new issue or question?

This video demonstrates the use of an area model and manipulatives to find factor pairs.

From the perspective of this parent/educator, what does it take for all us in education –meaning educators and families – to raise the bar that is our own expectations? It’s not the job of education to fix my child; it’s the job of education to uncover her capacity, create access to learning and community, and provide opportunities and invitations for her to find her own contribution. The least dangerous assumption is that what our children’s/students’ bodies and brains can demonstrate to us is the floor, not the ceiling, of what they comprehend. Our children, our students with”Low Incidence Disabilities” are not buckets of needs or labels who can be easily measured or quantified. They are each a person who the world needs to hear from. The world needs what they have to offer. Education is the process of ensuring that they can make that contribution. Let’s start there.

Stakeholders feedback session

Stakeholders feedback session

This session will provide participants with an overview of the development of the ThinkBIG! ‘tool box’. The ThinkBIG! project is the result of a consortium of community organizations and local education agencies that encourage students of all abilities to explore career options and begin planning for life “after the school bus stops coming”, with a focus on third and fourth grade students. ThinkBIG! provides a ‘tool box’ of time-limited activities to 3rd & 4th grade teachers in order to help their students identify early vocational interests by connecting career exploration lessons to Career Education & Work (CEW) standards in an effort to meet 3rd grade benchmarks.

This brief segment suggests the importance of generalizing skills for tacting actions to a student’s day to day activities.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) offers the Getting Ready for 2018 Pennsylvania State Assessments webinar and power point to assist districts and schools to prepare for the 2018 PSSA, PASA, and Keystone statewide assessments. The webinar includes the 2018 test design, 2018 testing calendar, Item Samplers, Scoring Guidelines, Assessment Anchors, glossaries, test security and calculator policy.