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nikkilh

Introduction to the Americans with Disabilities Act | Beta.ADA.gov - 1 views

  • The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability just as other civil rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion
    • nikkilh
       
      Important to remember what the ADA does for people with disabilities
  • A person with a disability is someone who: has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a history or record of such an impairment (such as cancer that is in remission), or is perceived by others as having such an impairment (such as a person who has scars from a severe burn).
    • nikkilh
       
      good idea to have clarification who is "disabled" according to the ADA
  • ection of the ADA: Title I Applies to: employers that have 15 or more employees, including state/local governments, employment agencies, and labor unions. General requirement: Employers must provide people with disabilities an equal opportunit
    • nikkilh
       
      knowing employees/employers rights with the ADA
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  • y to benefit from the employment-related opportunities available to others. This includes things like recruitment, hiring, promotions, training, pay, and social activities. The ADA includes specific requirements for employers to ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to employment. Learn more about these requirements on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance for employers. How to file a complaint: File a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Jen Bartsch

Daily Lesson Plan - 0 views

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    In this lesson, students explore how different social factors affect civic participation and equality across the country and in their own school community.
Siri Anderson

Division of Labor - Contemporary Divisions Of Labor - Gender, Cohabitation, Theory, Family, Development, Women, Housework, Household, Gender, Family, and Theories - 0 views

  • Nevertheless, the average married woman in the United States did about three times as much cooking, cleaning, laundry, and other routine housework in the 1990s as the average married man. Household work continues to be divided according to gender, with women performing the vast majority of the repetitive indoor housework tasks and men performing occasional outdoor tasks (Coltrane 2000).
  • Getting married increases women's domestic labor, whereas it decreases men's.
  • Educational differences between spouses are rarely associated with divisions of labor, and men with more education often report doing more housework, rather than less, as resource theories predict. Similarly, total family earnings have little effect on how much housework men do, though middle-class men talk more about the importance of sharing than working-class men. Some studies show that spouses with more equal incomes— usually in the working class—share more household labor, but women still do more than men when they have similar jobs
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    stats on gender and household responsibilities in the US today
Siri Anderson

The president of Egypt is assassinated - History.com This Day in History - 10/6/1981 - 1 views

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    This was a turning point in our relations with Egypt.
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    wow, I had no ideas Egypt's last President was even assassinated... This has gotta make President Mubarak a little uneasy. The Egyptians want equality and democracy, is that too much to ask for?
nmsaenz

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR - 0 views

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    Electoral system already discussing who will replace her and so the game s begin! Women's rights
Siri Anderson

Social Mobility Report 2020 - Reports - World Economic Forum - 0 views

  • Across the first three industrial revolutions, increasing equality of opportunity brought about by each subsequent industrial revolution’s reconfiguration of economic forces has been a major driver of social mobility, leading to more inclusive and dynamic economies and societies over the long term.
  • For more people to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and navigate the transition towards a more inclusive economy, the present state of social mobility is not economically or socially desirable, nor sustainable
  • The economic dynamics of digital platforms, big data and automation are increasingly promoting market concentration and ‘winner-takes-all’ markets.
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  • The main beneficiaries of these changes have been owners of technology or intellectual or physical capital—innovators, investors and shareholders—which has contributed to the rising wealth and income gap between those who depend on their labour and those who own capital.8
Siri Anderson

Visualizing School Equity | Learning for Justice - 0 views

    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 7I. Where the teacher is supporting and expanding expression through speaking, writing, or other media. This is happening through connections and building relationships with other schools in different districts and creating a portfolios about the facilities at the schools. Once these portfolios are exchanged they will then use the insights to create their own Student Bill of Rights. This will allow students another perspective to look at, think about, and reflect on.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      Yes this is 7I
  • Form a partnership with a teacher in another district. You will ask your students to assemble a portfolio documenting the facilities at their school (through lists, narratives or photos); your partner teacher will ask her/his students to do the same. Classes can exchange portfolios. Each class can use the insights from the exchange to draft their own Student Bill of Rights. 
  • 3. Ask to students to present their posters to the entire class. 
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 3G where we are using student's thinking and experiences as a resources in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written and other samples of student thinking. This will allow students to look at public information on the per-student funding in the best and least funded schools. They will then present their findings to their peers while listening to others findings and thoughts.
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  • 4. Circle back to the “Crossing the Gap” story by ask students to vote on the following proposition: An explicit right to equal per-student funding should be added to the Illinois Council of Students' Bill of Rights. Once your students have voted “yes” or “no” to the proposition, ask each group to present their decision, and three reasons supporting it, to the class as a whole. 
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 4E where we understand how a students learning is influenced by individual experiencs, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values. This will allow students to look at their findings and how they think they have affected their choices. This will also allow students culture, family, and community values to play a part in their decision making. School and education is very important to different cultures, individual families, and communities. This will affect how students vote. This will also tap into 3G by encouraging discussion and support of the way they have voted.
  • Then have students find the per-student funding levels (listed in dollar amounts) for the best-funded district, least-funded district, and their own district.
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to students individual experiences with their own schools funding to see how it affects them,. This will allow them to connect to and build off this scaffolding.
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 4E.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      OK yes
  • Have students create a chart illustrating the funding gap between the best-funded and least-funded districts in the state, along with the per-student funding for their district.
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 7I. Where students will create other media in the form of a chart to expand their learning to see the gap in funding between their school, the best funded school, and the least funded school.
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      yes
  • Have students brainstorm a list of useful educational items that could be purchased with the funding gap money for the least-funded district and/or their own district.
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 3G. Students are actively engaging in inquiry by looking at the gap and figuring what they think could be funded in the least funded school. Things that they may use or see as beneficial in their own school.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      The benefit in 3G is to the teacher, when we elicit student thinking it helps us tailor instruction to meet their needs. The standards are teacher standards, not student standards.
  • • learn about inequities in the system and begin to question why those inequities exist by examining the funding gap in their own state.
    • lind_krom
       
      This connects to 3g. Students will be using their experiences in their school to think about why this funding gap exists . They will then brainstorm ways that they money could benefit the least funded school through oral and written activities.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      I don't see how looking at experiences in their own education will help students understand "why" funding gaps exist.
  • • A large portion of public school funding comes from local property taxes. The funding gap exists when higher tax revenues mean much more school funding is available to wealthy communities than to poor communities.
    • lind_krom
       
      This could connect to 7I by allowing students to consider if this is fair and how we can look into and prevent this gap in funding. Do they think that this is fair, with wealthy communities paying a higher tax revenue? How do they think they could solve this.
    • Siri Anderson
       
      Standard 7I is about eliciting student communication in written or other forms. I don't see how this demonstrates that.
wandersee13

Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Action: First Steps - 1 views

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    Where do you begin when trying to address anti-racist pedagogy?
chlohawk

To reach girls in classroom, align practices to specific learning needs - kappanonline.org - 1 views

  • Characteristics of lessons Clear lessons; Lessons relevant to students’ lives; and Collaborative lessons. Particular activities Class discussions; Hands-on; Multimodal; Creativity and the creative arts; and Out-of-class experiences.
  • Among the eight components that we identified as contributing to effective and engaging lessons, the components reflected in the above narrative are relevance to this girl’s life and group collaboration.
  • One central finding of Reichert and Hawley (2010b) is that boys elicit the kinds of teaching they need.
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  • Teachers designed lessons that captured student attention, which led to more meaningful classroom learning. This suggests that girls, like boys, elicit the pedagogy they need, though perhaps without (overtly) displaying resistance to the degree that boys do, and that both male and female teachers of girls are especially attuned to what girls need in terms of pedagogy and activities that maximize girls’ engagement.
    • chlohawk
       
      How can I work to meet the needs of boys AND girls in my classroom? What are the practices that will enhance the learning of them both without taking away from the other in any way?
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    Relating lessons to real life, having clear lessons that are collaborative, including class discussions, creating hands on activities, including creative arts and out of classroom experiences can better enhance the education of girl learners.
Bill Olson

Inclusive Teaching Strategies | Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning - 0 views

  • Inclusive teaching refers to pedagogy that strives to serve the needs of all students, regardless of background or identity, and support their engagement with subject material. Hearing diverse perspectives can enrich student learning by exposing everyone to stimulating discussion, expanding approaches to traditional and contemporary issues, and situating learning within students’ own contexts while exploring those contexts. Students are more motivated to take control of their learning in classroom climates that recognize them, draw relevant connections to their lives, and respond to their unique concerns (Ambrose et. al, 2010).
  • Examine Implicit Biases - Instructors can consider their own attitudes towards students and strive to minimize negative impacts. This process can involve actively monitoring interactions with different types of students, implementing policies like name-blind grading and inter-rater grading to minimize the impact of bias, and maintaining high expectations for all students.
  • Maintain Awareness of Classroom Diversity - Instructors can develop and maintain their awareness and understanding of various racial and socioeconomic factors in their classes, as a way to test their implicit bias, ensure equal access for all their students, and even enrich classroom discussion.
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  • Add a Diversity Statement to Syllabus - Instructors can address diversity issues head-on during the first class session by inviting students to discuss the syllabus in earnest; explaining the teaching philosophy with regards to other inclusive teaching methods; and outlining classroom ground rules for respectful classroom discussions and an inclusive community.
Siri Anderson

Voting Rights Timeline - 0 views

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    Thanks to Jackie for sharing this! So much in here
Siri Anderson

Lesson 1 - Actions and consequences | Equality and Human Rights Commission - 0 views

  • Understand that our actions can have positive and negative consequences. Be able to make choices that aim to create positive consequences.
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    Thansk to Lovely for this useful set of resources.
nikkilh

About IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - 1 views

  • The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
    • nikkilh
       
      What IDEA is about and who it helps
  • Additionally, the IDEA authorizes: Formula grants to states to support special education and related services and early intervention services. Discretionary grants to state educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other nonprofit organizations to support research, demonstrations, technical assistance and dissemination, technology development, personnel preparation and development, and parent-training and -information centers.
  • In the law, Congress states: Disability is a natural part of the human experience and in no way diminishes the right of individuals to participate in or contribute to society. Improving educational results for children with disabilities is an essential element of our national policy of ensuring equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities.
Siri Anderson

A Library of Anti-Racist Resources for Educators | Teacher2Teacher - 2 views

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      What are some healthy resources that us educators can use to create a classroom that is rooted in being anti-racist?
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  • iving, growing library of anti-racism resources submitted by educators like you
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  • collection of resources you’re finding helpful and wanted to share
  • collection of anti-racist resources for educators,
  • ALL students need and deserve characters who look like them and experience life’s challenges in a way that reflects their own
  • equally important that students explore cultures and experiences different from their own
  • use empowerment tools
  • Teaching Tolerance’ is a plethora of free and easy-to-access resources for anti-bias education. It offers lessons and strategies to ground my instructional practices in equity and social justice
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  • onversation starters, reflection questions, even writing prompts that have empathy embedded into them, can help people of all ages break through the paralysis of not knowing what to say and/or the fear of saying something insensitive or offensive
  • address the intersectionality of antiracism and educational technology, along with its importance for educators regardless of where they fall in their career.
  • Be the equity leader in the building
  • onversation of racism will show up in your hallways. Deal with it. Do the work.
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  • stand in the gap for students
  • alking about race is a college/career readiness skill
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Katelyn Karsnia

Summary of S. 6 (94th): Education For All Handicapped Children Act - GovTrack.us - 0 views

  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act
  • Public Law (PL) 94-142)
  • nacted by the United States Congress in 1975.
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  • required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education for children with physical and mental disabilities.
  • amendment to Part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act enacted in 1966.
  • PL 94-142 also contains a provision that disabled students should be placed in the least restrictive environment-one that allows the maximum possible opportunity to interact with non-impaired students.
  • The law was passed to meet four huge goals: To ensure that special education services are available to children who need them To guarantee that decisions about services to students with disabilities are fair and appropriate To establish specific management and auditing requirements for special education To provide federal funds to help the states educate students with disabilities
  • EHA was revised and renamed as Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 for improvement of special education and inclusive education.
  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act
clwisniewski

Accommodations & Modifications - Teaching Students with Visual Impairments - 2 views

  • Accommodations do not reduce grade level standards but rather help provide access to the course content. They do not alter the amount or complexity of the information taught to the student. Accommodations are changes in the program from a way things are typically done so that a student with a disability can have equal opportunity to participate and allow the student to be successful. These changes do not substantially or fundamentally lower or alter the standards.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      A group thing to remember, not only with this impairment, but when making all accommodations.
  • Be based on current individualized needs;Reduce the effect of the disability to access the current curriculum;Be specific about where, when, who and how the accommodations will be provided;Include current input from parents, teachers, student, and therapists;Be based on current specific needs in each content area.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      Again, great to remember with all accommodations!
  • Changes in the medium used:braillelarge printaudiotapeelectronic textoral testing/scribing Changes made in the way materials are presentedCopies of overhead projector/smartboard activities to be viewed at his/her desk as needed.The teacher or presenter should verbalize all information as it is written on the board or overhead. Information presented on the board should be in a high contrast color. Use a slant-board to position papers appropriately for reduced visual strain and to avoid glare.The computer screen should be eye level and tilted to avoid glare.Use recorded text as needed.Classroom recording of lectures/instruction by the student.Large Print textbooks/materials.Braille textbooks/materials.Clear, dark copies of worksheets.Use of a reading guide to assist in keeping place while reading and completing worksheets.Present materials against a plain backgroundUse a good contrast background and present on a contrasting tray or mat. Time requirements:Time and a half or double timeConsideration for the student's reading/writing speedConsideration for the time needed to use adaptive equipmentConsideration for eye fatigue and scanning ability Changes in the way students demonstrate learningModified assignments (when appropriate and needed) to accommodate visual fatigue (extended time and/or shortened amount of assignments).Avoid activities requiring extensive visual scanning.Avoid visually cluttered materials.Allow students to use (bold marker, 20/20 pen, mechanical pencil, or another unique writing tool) to complete assignments.Use of bold line paper.Use of raised line paper.Abbreviated homework assignment (includes all concepts, just fewer items).Shorter written assignment.Oral testing. Changes in Setting: preferential seating in the classroom for all films, assemblies and demonstration lessons.seated facing away from windows.permission to move about the room as needed to see information presented away from his/her desk. Changes in the Setting: EnvironmentAvoid glare in general from overhead lights. Consider placing light filters on fluorescent lights.Open and close doors fully (a half-open door can be a dangerous obstacle).Eliminate unnecessary background noise. Consider isolation headphones.Eliminate clutter from the room, particularly in aisles and movement paths.Place materials in consistent places so that students know where particular items are always located.Preferential locker position and locks with keys vs. combination locks.Use of task lighting as needed.
    • sadielaurenn
       
      An INCREDIBLE list of accommodations that are available when/if working with a student that has a visual impairment
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  • Modifications lower the learning expectations and should only be used if this is the only way for the student to be successful. Parents must understand if modifications to grade level standards are being made, their child may be at risk for not meeting graduation requirements.
    • clwisniewski
       
      Important to remember! We can make accommodations for students, but not to change the expectations unless approved by the school
  • Reducing assignments so a student only completes the easiest problems;Altering assignments to make them easier;Requiring a student to learn fewer materials that are required by the State's academic content standards; Providing help to a student via hints or clues to the correct answers on assignments and tests.
    • clwisniewski
       
      If we have a visually impaired student that needs modifications, these are ways to help, which can be indicated on their IEP
drewevanaho

Differentiated Instruction: Examples & Classroom Strategies | Resilient Educator - 1 views

  • What is Differentiated Instruction? Examples of How to Differentiate Instruction in the Classroom
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      Differentiated instruction
  • In 1975, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), ensuring that children with disabilities had equal access to public education.
  • According to Tomlinson, teachers can differentiate instruction through four ways: 1) content, 2) process, 3) product, and 4) learning environment.
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