Reframing School Discipline with an Equity Lens
Speakers: Marcus Jackson, Jennifer Gorospe Tull, and Barby Castro
Date: January 14, 2025
Time: 8:30 -9:45 am
Location: Grand Ballroom 2 (Lower Level), Marriott Marquis San Diego
San Diego, CA
Reframing School Discipline with an Equity Lens
Speakers: Marcus Jackson, Jennifer Gorospe Tull, and Barby Castro
Signia Hotel
San Jose, CA
Reframing School Discipline with an Equity Lens
Speakers: Russell Coronado, Marcus Jackson, and Jennifer Gorospe Tull
Loews Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
Addressing Disproportionate Outcomes: Supporting All Students within an Equitable Setting
Speakers: Marcus Jackson and Jennifer Gorospe Tull
Thursday, November 19
1:00 - 2:15 pm
Safe Credit Union Convention Center
Ballroom B1
Description:
Changing the mindset of how we view systems, practices, and data as a community can contribute to academic, behavioral and social-emotional success. Establishing a framework with collaborative relationships as the foundation can create an interdependent system focused on supporting the whole child. During this session, participants will learn key strategies and tools and how they can be used in a systems approach to take action and make positive change.
The Power of AI and Data Literacy in Education
Speakers: Jenn Gorospe Tull and Barby Castro
Friday, October 11
9:00 - 9:50 am
Anaheim Marriott
Description:
This session aims to see the importance of data literacy and collaborative decision-making in Artificial Intelligence, teams can contribute to a more inclusive and equitable learning experience for ALL students. We hope to empower educational partners with a holistic understanding of the data, analytic, and behavioral concepts that influence how we generate, consume, process, and act on data within the MTSS framework.
Reframing School Discipline with an Equity Lens
Speakers: Marcus Jackson and Russell Coronado
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Safe Credit Union Convention Cent
Ballroom A3
Description:
This session aims to empower educational partners with knowledge and tools that will enhance inclusive and equitable strategies. By creating a culturally responsive school climate, we can create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Participants seeking improving school discipline through racial equity will understand why systems, practices, and data are important.
Community Advisory Committee 16th Annual Art and Awards Recognition
Thursday, May 23, 2024
4:30 - 6 pm
South County Regional Center (SCREC)
800 National City Boulevard
National City, CA 91950
This event is open to South County SELPA Parents, Students and Teachers. Learn more about the CAC 16th Annual and Awards Recognition here
Addressing Disproportionate Outcomes: Supporting all Students within an Equitable Setting
Sessions Date/Time TBD
Town and Country Resort
500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego CA 92108
Using PBIS to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students in Specialized Settings
Speakers: Marcus Jackson, Barby Castro & Jennifer Gorospe Tull
11:00 – 12:00 PM
Town and Country San Diego
Pacific Room H
Description:
Educators can address the critical issue of equity in education for students who experience significant behavioral challenges within a comprehensive school setting. Students experience significant and unique barriers that hinder their access to quality education. Oftentimes, these students are placed in specialized education settings, such as alternative schools, therapeutic programs, or specialized classrooms far from their community. There is a pressing need for a structured tiered system of support that acknowledges their traumatic experiences, focuses on their educational outcomes, and includes transitioning planning for future success. Equity is intrinsic to MTSS, which is also embedded within each tier of support for PBIS. Join us as we share best practices and strategies to support a diversity of learners within specialized educational settings and empower each student to their fullest potential.
Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Promotion
Speakers: Heidi Lyon & Jennifer Gorospe Tull
10:15 – 11:45 AM
JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa
Sinatra 4-6
Description:
Join us for a presentation exploring the role of social media in community outreach. Social media has evolved into an indispensable tool for outreach in today's digitally connected world. It serves as a dynamic platform that offers opportunities to engage with a target audience to foster relationships, disseminate information, and empower stakeholders in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner. Through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, outreach efforts can directly reach a wider audience with a similar concern. Whether promoting an event, sharing valuable content, or fostering awareness of special education, social media offers a versatile means to connect and interact with diverse communities, creating opportunities for relevant, relatable community building around a common topic. The real-time nature also allows for timely responses and adjustments to outreach strategies, making it an essential tool for anyone seeking to expand their reach and influence in the digital age.
Individualized training and coaching sessions will be provided to LEAs based on a fee for service agreement. Contact us for further information, jennifer.gorospetull@sdcoe.net.
Join us at the 2023 CA PBIS Conference, speaking engagement.
Individualized training and coaching sessions will be provided to LEAs based on a fee for service agreement. Contact us for further information, jennifer.gorospetull@sdcoe.net.
Join us at the MTSS PLI Conference on July 18 at 2:20 pm for “Three Ways Administrators Can Empower Themselves to Serve Students”
Presented by the South County SELPA Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Team and Equity, Disproportionality & Design (ED&D) Team School Psychologist Academy: “Tips for IEP Success: Ensuring Equitable Outcomes for ALL Students” As special education leaders, school psychologists use data to ensure equitable outcomes for ALL students inside and outside of the IEP process. Data use is a key component essential for success. As a result of our session, school psychologists will gain a deeper and practical understanding of data literacy, disproportionality, best practices for legally compliant IEPs, and tips for effective communication.
Intended Audience: School Psychologists
Learning Objectives:
Use data as a tool for promoting equity
Define disproportionality and learn practices that reduce/prevent disproportionality
Learn about special education legal requirements to create defensible IEPs
Increase effective communication and foster positive relationships
OMS Registration Link: In Person link:
http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-230739
Virtual Link:
http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-231162
Cost: FREE
PRESENTERS:
Heidi Lyon, ADR Coordinator
Jennifer Gorospe Tull, ADR and ED&D Coordinator
Erin Mahoney, ED&D Executive Consultant
Marcus Jackson, ED&D Executive Consultant
For more information contact Lindsay Cross lindsay.cross@sdcoe.net/858-298-2181 or Mayra Jaramillo mayra.jaramillo@sdcoe.net/858-298-2185
Keynote speaker: Dr. Francisco Escobedo
Participants will:
Explore tools and resources to support a more equitable pre-referral process for English Learners
Review recent dashboard data to identify trends and areas of need related to ELs and ELs with disabilities
Reflect on current practices to ensure that teams are making appropriate and informed decisions prior to referring English learners for special education evaluation
Register your Multi-disciplinary team.
General & Special Education Teachers
EL Coordinators
School Psychologists
Speech Language Pathologists
COE, District Level and Site-Based Administrators
SELPA Administrators & Staff
Register to attend in-person: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1168-229494
Register to Participate via ZOOM: http://icoe.k12oms.org/1168-229493
Contact: Brenda Sandoval at (760) 312-6154 or bsandoval@icoe.org
Strengthening Tier 1 Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools: Making Students Feel Valued and Capable
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
Presenters: Dr. Francisco Escobedo, Dr. Rupi Boyd, Dr. Jose Iniguez, Dr. Joseph Johnson, Dr. Shirley Peterson, Dr. Jeffrey Thiel, and Cara Riggs
About This Session:
During this session educators will learn how to demonstrate caring about and valuing their students. They will understand the importance of knowing and valuing individual students, modeling courtesy and respect, praising and acknowledging students, transforming classroom practices in ways that helped students succeed, and creating attractive and educationally rich physical environments. Additionally, the session will introduce NCUST's newest publication, When Black Students Excel. The book focuses upon six public schools that have won NCUST’s America’s Best Urban Schools Award. At all six of these schools, Black students (as well as every other demographic group of students) achieve impressive academic successes on multiple indicators, often outperforming the overall academic performance of all students in their state.
Intended Audience: General and special education staff, administrators, and other stakeholders. We encourage you to sign up as teams, so bring friends!
Strengthening Tier 1 Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools: Building Fluency with Gatekeeper Vocabulary
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
Presenters: Dr. Francisco Escobedo, Dr. Rupi Boyd, Dr. Jose Iniguez, Dr. Joseph Johnson, Dr. Shirley Peterson, Dr. Jeffrey Thiel, and Cara Riggs
About This Session:
Every lesson students encounter is laden with vocabulary. If students perceive the vocabulary as unfamiliar, awkward, or foreign they are less likely to become fluent with the concepts and ideas. Johnson, Uline, and Perez (2019) explain:
If students perceive that they cannot talk about the concept; if they don’t understand enough to be able to describe it, discuss it, or ask questions about it; or if they don’t believe they can even read or pronounce the word, their brain is more likely to reject the information, and they will not achieve understanding and mastery. (p. 89)
In high-performing schools, teachers work together to identify the words they want their students to become comfortable speaking. Then, they design strategies for helping their students articulate the words frequently and accurately in conversations, demonstrations, or dramatizations in which students know they will not be embarrassed or humiliated for mispronunciation or imprecise grammar. Additionally, teachers in high-performing schools recognize that student understanding is much more likely to be sustained over time if student fluency with key vocabulary is sustained. So, teachers employ a variety of strategies to encourage students to practice key vocabulary orally and in writing.
In this session, teams will learn about high performing schools and their best practices in building fluency with key concepts.
Intended Audience: General and special education staff, administrators, and other stakeholders. We encourage you to sign up as teams, so bring friends!
Best Practices in Evaluation of English Learners: A practical, nondiscriminatory assessment approach for all practitioners
Presented by Dr. Samuel Ortiz, Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Programs in School Psychology at St. John’s University
Webinar and In-Person
Zoom Registration Link: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-218748
In-Person Registration Link: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-218747
Square Pegs in Round Holes: Challenges in Educating and Evaluating English Learners- Bilinguals are not two monolinguals in one head
Presented by Dr. Samuel Ortiz, Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Programs in School Psychology at St. John’s University
Webinar and In-Person
Zoom Registration Link: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-218726
In-Person Registration Link: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-218746
San Diego Convention Center
Due to the latest spike in COVID-19 cases and to ensure the safety of our participants and staff members,
the San Diego County Office of Education is postponing the 2022 Equity Conference to May 12-13.
This decision was not made lightly, and planning will continue with safety as the top priority.
Information and details will be updated here as soon as they are available.
If you have immediate questions, please email amoyer@sdcoe.net.
OMS registration link: https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/2341-207534
Strengthening Tier I Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
In this five-session series, NCUST Executive Coaches Cara Riggs, Dr. Rupi Boyd, Dr. Jose Iniguez, Dr. Shirley Peterson, Dr. Joseph Johnson, and Dr. Francisco Escobedo will teach you about five important practices successful schools have used to elevate learning to new levels for all students.
About Session 3
Focus: Culturally Responsive Teaching.
Each session has three parts with three different dates.
Part 1 (required) March 8, 2022: 2 hour workshop on Culturally Responsive Teaching.
Part 2: Personalized coaching session with an NCUST Executive Coach and the school leadership team
Part 3 (required) April 26, 2022: 2 hour session featuring practical content that features teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools
Participants will receive a complimentary coaching session with one of NCUST’s Executive Coaches and a copy of the book Teaching Practices from America’s Best Urban Schools.
Intended Audience: General and special education staff, administrators, and other stakeholders. We encourage you to sign up as teams, so bring friends!
Did you know a multi-tiered system of support isn’t just about PBIS and Social Emotional Learning? It’s about Academic Interventions and Supports for ALL Learners as well.
In this two-part training, teams will receive an overview of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) with an emphasis on Tiered Academic Interventions and Supports. This training will provide the structures and systems to begin implementing MTSS in a school or district. Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged to attend to create collective efficacy and support effective implementation.
Objectives include:
• Overview of Tier 1, 2, and 3 research based practices
• Examining current tiered academic support practices for hidden biases and increasing cultural responsiveness
• Disaggregating data to support decision making and address disproportionality in special education
• Professional Learning Community supports to encourage stakeholder engagement for lasting change and impact
Day 1 & Day 2 of Training: February 10 & 17, 8:30-11:00 am
Office Hours and PLC Planning: Select Date for a 1-hour session Feb. 23, Feb. 25, March 2, March 4 1:00-4:00pm
Intended Audience: Participants are encouraged to register as multi-disciplinary teams to include representatives from general education, special education, site/district administrators, and other key stakeholders. Resources will be made available to use with site teams for implementation.
Did you know a multi-tiered system of support isn’t just about
academic interventions? It’s about the integration of social emotional
wellness and behavior as a way to positively influence the academic
success of our students. This includes a critical element of a
successful school experience, the social emotional wellness of both
students and staff.
Research suggests that rates in school discipline and Special Education referrals are associated with implicit bias. In this training, you’ll receive an overview of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
with an emphasis on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). You’ll also learn a school-wide approach to reducing the effects of implicit bias in decision making.
In this professional learning experience, multi-disciplinary teams will learn to use data to identify areas of concern, use culturally relevant practices with students, and build support systems for educators that promote equity for students.
This training includes a Professional Learning Community format aimed at techniques for giving students equitable access to quality instruction. Other learning objectives include:
● Increasing the voice of students and families in their educational systems
● Creating a safe and welcoming school culture
● Examining school-wide expectations and teaching matrices for hidden biases and increasing cultural responsiveness
● Disaggregating data to address disproportionality in exclusionary discipline and placement in special education
● Using instructional practices to replace exclusionary responses to problem behavior
● Changing punitive practices that disproportionately harm students with disabilities and students of color
● Identifying our own biases about student behavior and replacing deficit thinking with a strengths-based approach
Intended Audience: Participants must register as multidisciplinary teams. Teams should include representatives from general education, special education, mental health service providers, site/district administrators, and other key stakeholders.
Day 1 & Day 2 Training: February 8 & February 15, 2022, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (lunch break provided)
Professional Learning Community (PLC) Sessions (required): Mar 1, Mar 29, Apr 19,May 17 (9:00 am to 11:30 am)
Office Hours: (one 45 minute session required per team) Mar 2, Mar 3, Mar 30 or Mar 31 (3:00-4:30 pm)
Strengthening Tier I Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
In this five-session series, NCUST Executive Coaches Cara Riggs, Dr. Rupi Boyd, Dr. Jose Iniguez, Dr. Shirley Peterson, and Dr. Joseph Johnson will teach you about five important practices successful schools have used to elevate learning to new levels for all students.
About Session 2
Focus: Checking Understanding, Providing Feedback, and Adapting.
Each session has three parts with three different dates.
Part 1 (required) January 25, 2022: 2 hour workshop on Checking Understanding, Providing Feedback, and Adapting.
Part 2: Personalized coaching session with an NCUST Executive Coach and the school leadership team
Part 3 (required) February 24, 2022: 2 hour session featuring practical content that features teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools
Participants will receive a complimentary coaching session with one of NCUST’s Executive Coaches and a copy of the book Teaching Practices from America’s Best Urban Schools.
Intended Audience: General and special education staff, administrators, and other stakeholders. We encourage you to sign up as teams, so bring friends!
Join hundreds of educators, parents, students, policymakers, advocates, and community members to advance educational equity for California’s students at the 2022 Equity Conference on Jan. 20 and 21.
The Equity Conference will be an opportunity to grow and learn as we work to make our campuses safe spaces for all students, staff members, and families, where they feel honored and valued.
We look forward to coming together with a renewed sense of purpose to transform our individual and collective equity work and create places of exceptional vision, hope, and opportunity for every student.
Join the South County SELPA ED&D team presenting: Three Ways To Keep Equity and Students at the Center of Your Data Practices
Date and Time: Thursday January 20th, 2022, at 9:15am
Date and Time: Friday January 21st, 2022, at 9:15am
Join the South County SELPA ED&D team presenting: How To Use Storytelling and Data in Your Equity Work
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 1:00 am
Strengthening Tier I Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
In this five session series, NCUST Executive Coaches Cara Riggs, Dr. Rupi Boyd, and Dr. Joseph Johnson will teach you about five important practices successful schools have used to elevate learning to new levels for all students.
About Session 1
This is session one of a five session training, which focuses on
Promoting Clarity. Each session has three parts with three
different dates.
● Part 1 (required): 2 hour workshop on Promoting Clarity
● Part 2: Personalized coaching session (optional) with
an NCUST Executive Coach and the school leadership
team
● Part 3 (required) : 2 hour session featuring practical
content that features teachers and school leaders from
award-winning schools
Intended Audience: General and special education staff,
administrators, and other stakeholders. We encourage you to
sign up as teams, so bring friends!
Link to Register: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-210696
The ED&D Team will be hosting with special guests, Susan Barrett, M.A., Director, Center for Social Behavior Supports, Old Dominion University and Patricia Hershfeldt, Ed.D, Co-Director, Center for Social Behavior Supports, Old Dominion University
*Must register by September 28, 2021
Registration Link, Cohort 3:
https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-208771
Cohort 4 will be offered in the Spring 2022
A collaboration between South County SELPA, the Equity, Disproportionality & Design Project, and the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST), featuring teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools.
In this five session series, NCUST Executive Coaches Cara Riggs, Dr. Rupi Boyd, and Dr. Joseph Johnson will teach you about five important practices successful schools have used to elevate learning to new levels for all students.
About Session 1
This is session one of a five session training, which focuses on Promoting Clarity. Each session has three parts with three different dates.
Part 1 (required): 2 hour workshop on Promoting Clarity
Part 2: Personalized coaching session (optional) with an NCUST Executive Coach and the school leadership team
Part 3 (required) : 2 hour session featuring practical content that features teachers and school leaders from award-winning schools
Session Preview - Keep an eye out for upcoming sessions!
Save the dates for the following:
Session 2: Checking Understanding, Providing Feedback, and Adapting January 25, 2022 & February 24, 2022
Session 3: Culturally Responsive Teaching March/April 2022
Session 4: Building Fluency with Gatekeeper Vocabulary Sept./Oct. 2022
Session 5: Promoting Successful Practice Nov./Dec. 2022
Presenter: Dr. Sam Ortiz
This workshop will present current research on language, cognitive, academic development, and their application to evaluation within a comprehensive, research-based framework for generating valid data to support conclusions & decisions regarding the presence or absence of various types of disorders with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Main topics include: issues in first and second language acquisition; understanding bias in testing; problems regarding test score validity; how typical methods fail in establishing test score validity; use of a broad, comprehensive framework for evaluation that can be utilized by any practitioner regardless of bilingual capability, use of the Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix in evaluating exclusionary factors, and integration of the Ortiz PVAT for valid measurement of vocabulary and general language acquisition.
Register to attend in person: https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-208600
Register to participate via Zoom: https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1036-208606
The ED&D Team will be presenting.
The first session in the new Change Through Conversation series will help special education and general education teachers explore co-teaching models, barriers, and practical solutions for effective co-teaching. Real Talk about C0-Teaching builds on a 15-minute video and short readings as resources to inform the session work.
Link to event: https://sdcoe.k12oms.org/2341-201740
