CALSA Focused on Results 2024 Session : Addressing Disproportionate Outcomes: Supporting all Students within an Equitable Setting
Feb
2
3:00 PM15:00

CALSA Focused on Results 2024 Session : Addressing Disproportionate Outcomes: Supporting all Students within an Equitable Setting

Addressing Disproportionate Outcomes: Supporting all Students within an Equitable Setting

Speakers: Barby Castro, Marcus Jackson & Jennifer Gorospe Tull

3:00 - 3:45 pm

Signia Hotel

Room TBD

Description:

Explore how reframing our perspectives can pave the way for inclusive, equitable learning environments, and how collaborative relationships and data-driven insights can drive positive change. This session highlights key strategies and tools to address disparities with actionable steps to: foster inclusive connections among students, families, staff, and community; analyze real time data to uncover and address disproportionalities; strengthen compliance practices utilizing a human centered approach; and integrate data-driven decision-making to ensure fairness for all learners.

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Equity Conference 2024 Session: Using PBIS to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students in Specialized Settings
Jan
19
11:00 AM11:00

Equity Conference 2024 Session: Using PBIS to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students in Specialized Settings

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.

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ACSA Every Child Counts Symposium Session: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Promotion
Jan
11
10:15 AM10:15

ACSA Every Child Counts Symposium Session: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Promotion

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.

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Apr
19
8:30 AM08:30

School Psychologist Academy

Tips for IEP Success: Ensuring Equitable Outcomes for ALL 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

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Mar
27
to Mar 28

Addressing Equity to Improve Outcomes for English Learners and ELs with Disabilities

  • Liberty Station Conference Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Keynote speaker: Dr. Francisco Escobedo

Participants will:

  1. Explore tools and resources to support a more equitable pre-referral process for English Learners

  2. Review recent dashboard data to identify trends and areas of need related to ELs and ELs with disabilities

  3. 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

 
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Nov
1
3:00 PM15:00

NCUST Session 5 Making Students Feel Valued and Capable

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!

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Oct
12
to Oct 17

NCUST Session 4 Building Fluency With Gatekeeper Vocabulary

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!

 

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Sep
14
8:30 AM08:30

Best Practices in Evaluation of English Learners: A practical, nondiscriminatory assessment approach for all practitioners

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

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Sep
13
8:30 AM08:30

Square Pegs in Round Holes: Challenges in Educating and Evaluating English Learners- Bilinguals are not two monolinguals in one head

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

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May
12
to May 14

Equity Conference 2022

Equity Conference 2022

San Diego Convention Center

https://sdequity.sdcoe.net/


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

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Mar
8
to Apr 26

NCUST Session 3 Culturally Responsive Teaching

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!

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Feb
10
to Feb 17

MTSS: Setting Up Academic Interventions and Supports

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.

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Feb
8
to Feb 15

MTSS/PBIS Professional Development Series 2021-2022, Cohort 4

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)

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Jan
25
to Feb 24

NCUST Session 2: Checking Understanding, Providing Feedback, and Adapting. Strengthening Tier I Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools

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!





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Jan
20
to Jan 21

Equity Conference 2022

  • San Diego Convetion Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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

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Oct
19
to Nov 16

NCUST Session 1: Promoting Clarity, Strengthening Tier 1 Instructional Practices to Eliminate Disproportionality and Promote Equity in Schools

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

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Sep
29
to Oct 13

MTSS/PBIS Professional Development Series 2021-2022, Cohort 3

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

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Sep
24
3:00 PM15:00

Session 1: Promoting Clarity, 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

Click this registration link for session 1 and join educators all over California who are learning tried and tested techniques for successful 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


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Sep
17
8:30 AM08:30

Evaluation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: A nondiscriminatory assessment framework for all practitioners

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

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May
19
3:30 PM15:30

Real Talk About Co-Teaching: Change Through Conversation series with SDCOE Equity Department and ED&D

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

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