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

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!

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

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

The ED&D Team will be presenting.

Link to event: https://camtsspli.ocde.us/event/d89c09ca-4062-4b05-a7ac-911bb8060d22/summary?environment=P2&5S%2CM3%2Cd89c09ca-4062-4b05-a7ac-911bb8060d22=