Videos

Check In Check Out (CICO) is a highly effective research based strategy used to provide students with additional academic or behavioral feedback and reinforcement. The strategy, typically applied in the school setting, can be successfully implemented in the home environment to extend learning and consistency. During this webinar, PaTTAN consultants and participating LEA members discuss the components of the CICO strategy and explain how to support the use of this strategy at home.

Guest Shauna King, a school culture and climate coach, helps us to better understand how the language we use in our schools has significant impact on our students and the adults in our building.

Emily Hanford shares insights from the field around her work of literacy and literacy instruction.

This webinar provides an overview of built-in accessibility tools, Windows operating system features, and common productivity tools that can be useful to students with high-incidence disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, learning disabilities). It includes discussion and demonstration of third-party tools that are available at low or no-cost to serve the same purposes. Participants will also find the information useful for incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approaches to their instruction and supports.

This session will focus on how literature can help enrich children's lives as they see their own lives reflected in the pages, experience lives and stories that are different from their own, and learn to feel empathy for the characters in the stories.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to set aside at least 15% of their federal funds to provide "pre-employment transition services" to "students with disabilities who are eligible or potentially eligible for VR services." During this webinar sponsored by the Pennsylvania Community of Practice on Secondary Transition and presented by representatives from OVR and PaTTAN provided information regarding how to assist transition age students in accessing and engaging in pre-employment transition services during the 2017-18 school year.

The Literacy Tookit is a training series consisting of a progressive sequence of interactive webinars focused on expanding the instructional interventions used to promote the literacy achievement of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Presentations in the training series will focus on how to use assessment information primarily from the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (QRI-5), as well as other evidenced based assessments (norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and progress monitoring) to plan and implement instructional interventions. Instructional delivery “techniques” and implementation “tips and tricks” will be discussed, and a set of intervention resources, materials, weblinks, and e-learning applications will be assembled for each topic to assist with implementation.

The East Juniata Elementary School team who participated in the session, Effective Implementation of Academic Vocabulary Instruction and Student Discourse, and began implementation of Word Generation from fall to winter, will prepare and share a brief presentation describing and explaining their Word Generation implementation experience and outcomes. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfDWEcQ8YdgTuckVOJVqjSlM1rmxH4se/view?usp=share_link

This session will focus on the family responses after ABI and the means for working with families to support them in difficult times. Ability to respond to varying coping styles, family systems, resilience, and challenges will be outlined. Active participation of the audience is encouraged.