Videos

PaTTAN educational consultant, Dr. Nikole Hollins-Sims interviews Dr. Bernard Harris in a special bonus episode of PaTTANpod, following his opening keynote at the Pennsylvania Computer Science for All Summit.

Transition Discoveries is a project intended to provide tools and resources geared towards improving transition practices

With all the hype about technology, Kathryn Helland from Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities talks about how we can harness technology to assist with transition into adulthood.

Translanguaging is the practice of using multiple languages to communicate, think, and make sense of the world. It can also refer to a teaching method that encourages students to use their home language to learn a new language.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is fast becoming a hot topic in the field of education. TBI is now considered a "developing disease." Following TBI, many students return to school without appropriate educational supports in place. Over time, students may exhibit more intensive learning needs that can be connected back to their earlier brain injury. Regardless if the TBI is classified as mild (concussion), moderate or severe in nature, students may exhibit moderate/severe functional needs in school that impact the ability to learn new information. Information about the differences between students who sustain TBI versus other disability categories, the importance of early identification & screening, and a plethora of specific educational strategies will be discussed. A BrainSTEPS student will also share his personal journey.

How well is your MTSS for reading being implemented in our school system? This video will help you understand how the Reading-Tiered Fidelity Inventory (R-TFI) will help you Assess levels of implementation of the reading components of an mtss framework, prioritize areas of action planning (district level and/or school level goals), examine growth over time, and improve the Multi-tiered system of support within a school (support allocation of resources).

Hear from Nicole Tucker-Smith about the tier 1 approach of Universal Design for Learning. UDL is essential for some, beneficial for all.

Act 69 of 2014, the Dyslexia Screening and Early Literacy Intervention Pilot Program became effective on June 26, 2014 (24 P.S. Article XVII-C). This Act requires the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to establish an early literacy intervention and dyslexia pilot program to provide evidence-based early screening using evidence- based services for students with potential risk factors for early reading deficiencies and dyslexia, such as low phonemic awareness, low letter and symbol naming and inability to remember sequences. This session will provide an update on the pilot program, which will operate for three full years beginning with the 2015-16 school year.

Act 69 of 2014, the Dyslexia Screening and Early Literacy Intervention Pilot Program became effective on June 26, 2014 (24 P.S. Article XVII-C). This Act requires the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to establish an early literacy intervention and dyslexia pilot program to provide evidence-based early screening using evidence-based services for students with potential risk factors for early reading deficiencies and dyslexia, such as low phonemic awareness, low letter and symbol naming and inability to remember sequences. This session will provide an update on the pilot program, which will operate for three full years beginning with the 2015-16 school year.