Videos

This video created by Amy Lawrence from Crawford Central School District addresses how to teach the 13-15% of words in the English language that don't follow common spelling patterns. It is imperative to teach decodable words by sounding out the words. But, there are those that require a bit of memory, usually the vowel sound. This video shares several multisensory-based activities that can reinforce the learning of irregularly spelled words.

This session will thoroughly cover multiple control and its role in teaching children with autism, with extensions to literature, humor, recall, problem solving, and derived relations.

This session will thoroughly cover multiple control and its role in teaching children with autism, with extensions to literature, humor, recall, problem solving, and derived relations.

This session will discuss language assessment needs, including critical information about before-and-after contexts of test responses, in order to best inform treatment decisions.

Research on disorders of learning and behavior typically has emphasized acquisition of adaptive behavior or elimination of problem behavior. For many years, the treatment of problem behavior has incorporated a number of acquisition techniques to establish socially appropriate replacement responses. A proactive strategy — strengthening appropriate behavior for the explicit purpose of preventing problem behavior — is the subject of this presentation. Topics to be covered include identifying risk factors, reducing general risk factors (establishing operations or EOs) for problem behavior, and establishing socially appropriate responses that are adaptive in the presence of EOs.

Special education laws and regulations ensure that parents are given opportunities to participate meaningfully in their child’s special education experiences. The NOREP/PWN: Lessons Learned in the Field webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to gain a better understanding of the legal requirements and implications of the NOREP/PWN, as well as how legal concerns may transpire when parents are not provided their procedural rights from the perspective of a hearing officer.

Computer science (CS) and data science are closely related fields. Data science, represented by the concept "data and analysis" is one of five key concepts in K-12 computer science (CS) education. Andrew Kromer shares about his experiences with data science and CS, and ideas for broadening participation in K-12 CS.

The participants will be provided information on the on-line training resource The Open Hands Open Access (OHOA) Intervener Learning Modules which are a national resource related to the intervention for students who are deaf-blind and are being served in educational settings, and how the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project is supporting this learning resource for module participants across the Commonwealth. During this one-hour webinar learn about PaTTAN’s upcoming OHOA Module training, training schedule and its “kick off”. Meet the staff of the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project and your module co-hosts. The primary purpose of the modules was to provide a resource for the acquisition of specialized skills for paraeducators working with students with deaf-blindness functioning in the role of the intervener. An intervener provides a bridge to the world for the student who is deafblind. The intervener helps the student gather information, learn concepts and skills, develop communication and language, and establish relationships that lead to greater independence. The intervener is a support person who does with, not for the student. The module content was created by a diverse group of experts in the field of deaf-blindness including state and national deaf-blind project staff, parents of children who are deaf-blind, higher education faculty,teachers, educational interpreters, and interveners.

A previous episode of PaTTANpod explores cultural navigation, a model for providing linguistically and culturally relevant support to English Learners and their families. Operationalizing cultural navigation requires collaboration among multiple LEA and community partners. Erin Conahan, Mark Simms, and Loice Byler join PaTTANpod to discuss how school and district leaders play a crucial role in the implementation of cultural navigation in the School District of Lancaster.

Dr. Miles explains how she overhauled the fieldwork requirement of the early literacy graduate and undergraduate courses that she teaches and/or oversees in fall 2020 in order to improve preservice teacher training and foundational skills of striving 1st and 2nd graders from historically underserved schools in NYC DOE. Dr. Miles will explain the research and evidence-based early intervention programs and the implementation approach CUNY Reading Corps has used to scale this initiative to 650 preservice teachers and over 1,200 students served last year, and even more ambitious goals set for this academic year.