Develop a plan to establish a Multidisciplinary Home-School Diversity Success Team. Develop an abstract for a culturally responsive intervention/ model project proposal.

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Cultural Responsive Practice Action Plan

See attached for details of the three section assignment.

1.Develop a plan to establish a Multidisciplinary Home-School Diversity Success Team.- 2 pages

2. Develop an abstract for a culturally responsive intervention/ model project proposal.- 3 pages

3. Develop a Position Paper- 2 pages

Based on current research, summarize three reading areas that are critical to building a young student’s capacity to comprehend what he or she reads. Use the academic language associated with each theory.

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Reading Comprehension Research Paper:

In a 1,000-1,250-word research paper, address the following:
1. Based on current research, summarize three reading areas that are critical to building a young student’s capacity to comprehend what he or she reads. Use the academic language associated with each theory.

2. Select three of the five recommendations from the practice guide that increase reading comprehension for young readers. Analyze these recommendations in connection with the research you gathered for #1. (see #3-resources- under Instructional Materials)

3. Based on your research and analysis, describe the practices that you would incorporate into your teaching practices. Defend your choices.

APA format is required. Please note the Title Page and Reference Page are a part of the number of pages required.

Describe 6 key ideas in this chapter/article. Why is this information in this chapter/article important? How will it impact your instruction in the classroom?

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SPED 302 Reading Response Sheet

Name                                                                 

Article Name:

Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension

  1. Describe 6 key ideas in this chapter/article. (Your response must be a minimum of 150 words) (18 points)
  2. Most valuable ideas or new insights in the reading (2 point)
  3. Your own beliefs validated by this reading (2 point)
  4. Why is this information in this chapter/article important? How will it impact your instruction in the classroom? (Your response must be a minimum of 100 words) (8 points)

Identify 5 different ways that parents can become involved in your classroom and describe each opportunity. Identify 5 different resources and services available to help families in the community. Briefly describe each service as well as provide pertinent contact information.

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This assignment contains 2 parts. Both parts must be completed as a requirement of this assignment.

Create a 2 page newsletter for parents/guardians of your preschool classroom. In the first part, you will welcome them to your class and invite them to become part of the learning experience. You may create special events or simply identify opportunities during the school day where they may participate. The second part of your newsletter will contain information on local resources and services that families may need or find helpful. Helping families connect to the community can further increase student success. Include resources that can be found in your area.

· Be creative and make your letter visually engaging – use color and pictures

· Use a newsletter format

· Identify 5 different ways that parents can become involved in your classroom and describe each opportunity. Be sure to include a wide variety of ways parents can participate..

· Identify 5 different resources and services available to help families in the community. Briefly describe each service as well as provide pertinent contact information.

Interview an adult that is known to you about their childhood and educational experiences and analyse that data to provide an account of the debates around the changing landscape of childhood and youth in the post-war era.

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Narratives of Childhood and Youth

Assignment number and title 1
You will interview an adult that is known to you about their childhood and educational experiences and analyse that data to provide an account of the debates around the changing landscape of childhood and youth in the post-war era (1,500 words).

Assignment type: Case study
Weighting of assignment 40%
Size or length of assessment 1,500 words (+/-10%)

Unit learning outcomes 1.

Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding: The ways in which education operates across family, school and community context to shape life chances
Demonstrate the following skills and abilities: To be able to structure, express ideas and support written argument through research and creative use of artefacts or primary source material.

Identify a group of 2-3 eighth grade students, using the “Class Profile,” who would benefit from additional instruction on reading comprehension skills. Identify a text appropriate to use with the small group identified.

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Assessment Description

When teaching students to comprehend and summarize text, teachers can use a variety of activities before, during, and after reading to help students understand elements within a plot. Utilizing appropriate strategies that incorporate summarizing skills helps to increase students’ reading comprehension skills.

Use the “Reading Comprehension Template” to complete this assignment.

Part 1: Strategies

Research and summarize, in 250-500 words, a minimum of five strategies for teaching adolescent students with deficits in their reading comprehension skills. Identify the conditions under which the chosen strategies are intended to be delivered (e.g., content area, class setting, required resources, if intended for a specific type of disability).

Support your findings with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Part 2: Activity

Identify a group of 2-3 eighth grade students, using the “Class Profile,” who would benefit from additional instruction on reading comprehension skills.

Identify a text appropriate to use with the small group identified. You may use Appendix B of the Common Core English Language Arts Standards to help you determine an appropriate text for the lesson.

Draft a 250-500 word outline summarizing three activities to reinforce reading comprehension and summarizing skills, utilizing the identified text. Incorporate at least three of the strategies from Part 1 into your activities.

Part 3: Rationale

In 250-500 words, rationalize your instructional decisions in Part 2 of this assignment. Explain how the identified strategies and activities enhance the language development of adolescents with deficits in their reading comprehension skills. Cite the “Class Profile” where appropriate.

 

On which days of a 28-day female reproductive cycle are blood levels of estrogen the highest? What is the role of the corpus luteum? Which hormone triggers ovulation?

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Module 11: Short Answer Assignment

Instructions: Answer all 15 questions in the space below.

  1. Detail the circumstances that would cause an organism to reproduce via sexual reproduction vs asexual reproduction.
  2. Trace the path of a sperm cell from where it is created to where it is released from the body, listing each structure it passes through on the way.
  3. Trace the path of an oocyte from where it is created to where it is released from the body(assuming pregnancy does NOT occur), listing each structure it passes through on the way.
  4. Where in the female reproductive tract does fertilization occur?
  5. Describe the process of sperm formation (spermatogenesis).
  6. Describe the process of egg formation (oogenesis).
  7. How many days following the onset of menstruation does ovulation typically occur
  8. On which days of a 28-day female reproductive cycle are blood levels of estrogen the highest? 
  9. What is the role of the corpus luteum?
  10. Which hormone triggers ovulation?
  11. How do oral contraceptives prevent pregnancy?
  12. What is in vitro fertilization?
  13. Describe the five stages of human fertilization (Fig. 26.12).
  14. Describe the structure and function of the placenta.
  15. Describe the three stages of labor.

 

 

List authors and summarize relevant research for the development, articulation, implementation, stewardship, and promoting the mission and vision as it relates to academic success and well-being of each student.

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Education & Teaching

Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement

Effective educational leaders develop, advocate, and enact a shared mission, vision, and core values of high-quality education and academic success and well-being of each student.

Self-Rating Element (7)
  1a:   Develop a Mission
  1b: Develop and promote a Vision
  1c:    Articulate Core Values
  1d:   Develop, implement, and articulate Actions
  1e:   Review the Mission and Vision
  1f:    Develop understanding of Mission, Vision, and Core Values
  1g:   Model Mission, Vision, and Core Values

 

r Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research for the development, articulation, implementation, stewardship, and promoting the mission and vision as it relates to academic success and well-being of each student. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDL 5400, EDL 5200, EDL 5300, EDCI 5020, etc. (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses, such as EDL 5400, and prominent authors augmented your insight into the importance of developing and sustaining the mission and vision. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, explain how the mission vision is an ongoing, changing, and dynamic process. Provide further research to support this reflective analysis.

 

Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms

Effective educational leaders act ethically and according to professional norms to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

 

Self-Rating Element (6)
  2a:   Act Ethically and Professionally as a School Leader
  2b:   Execute Professional Norms
  2c:   Accept Academic Success of Students
  2d:   Safeguard Values of Democracy
  2e:   Understand all Backgrounds and Cultures of Students and Staff
  2f:    Provide Moral Direction

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the four bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research related to leadership characteristics of integrity, fairness, equity, justice, and ethical behavior. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible Artifacts from EDL 5700 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how all EDL courses increased understanding for the need to become a caring, just, equitable, fair, and democratic leader. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge and growth has impacted your praxis.

 

Standard 3: Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

Effective educational leaders strive for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (8)
  3a:   Ensure Fair Treatment of Students
  3b:   Recognize Assets of Students
  3c:   Ensure Equitable Access for Students
  3d:   Develop Student Policies
  3e:   Confront and Alter Institutional Biases
  3f: Promote and Prepare Students
  3g:   Act with Cultural Competence
  3h:   Address Matter of Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the four bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research related to understanding of, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDL 5200, EDL 5400 and EDL 5800 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses, such as EDL 5200, EDL 5400, and EDL 5800, increased awareness of the responsibility to become actively involved in making difficult decisions within complex situations, while implementing policy and procedures. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge and growth impacted your praxis.

 

Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (7)
  4a:   Implement Coherent Systems
  4b:   Align Systems across Grade Levels
  4c:   Promote Instructional Practice
  4d:   Ensure Instructional Practice with Students in Mind
  4e:   Promote effective use of Technology
  4f: Employ Valid Assessments
  4g:   Use Assessment Data Appropriately using Technology

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research for the school climate, school culture, student-centered curriculum, best practices, and professional growth. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDCI 5020, EDIC 5030, and EDUC 5031 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses, such as EDCI 5020 and EDCI 5030, and prominent authors increased understanding for developing a positive school culture, meaningful instruction, and best practices. (5-7 sentences)
  • Explain the rationale for disaggregating data to develop an effective research driven instructional program.
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge and growth has impacted your praxis.

Standard 5: Community of Care and Support for Student

Effective educational leaders cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community

that promotes the academic success and well-being of each student.

Self-Rating Element (6)
  5a:   Build and Maintain a Safe, Caring, and Healthy Environment
  5b:   Create and Sustain an Environment for Students
  5c:   Provide Coherent Systems for Learning Needs of Students
  5d:   Promote all School Relationships
  5e:   Cultivate Student Engagement
  5f: Infuse Culture and Languages Reflective of School Community

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research for promoting the success of every student through engaging families, community, and school personnel. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDL 5800 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses such as EDL 5800 promote the strengthening of student learning, supports school improvement, and advocates for the needs of the school and community. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge has impacted your capacity to engage families in strengthening student learning in and out of school and how to engage community members, partners, and other constituencies for the benefit of school improvement and student development.

 

Standard 6: Professional Capacity of School Personnel

Effective educational leaders develop the professional capacity and practice of school personnel to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (9)
  6a:   Hire Effective and Caring Teachers
  6b:   Plan for and Manage Staff Turnover and Succession
  6c:   Develop Professional Learning and Development
  6d:   Foster Continuous Improvement
  6e:   Deliver Actionable Feedback about Instruction
  6f: Empower and Motivate Teachers and Staff
  6g:   Develop Support from School Community
  6h:   Promote Personal and Professional Health of Staff
  6i: Protect Your Own Work-Life Balance

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research about the importance to recruit, hire, support, develop, and retain effective and caring teachers and other professional staff. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDL 5200, EDL 5300, EDL 5400, EDL 5600 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses such as EDL 5600 and prominent authors augmented your insight to form teachers and staff at becoming educationally effective faculty. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, explain the importance of empowering and motivating teachers and staff to the highest levels of professional practice and to continuous learning and improvement.

 

Standard 7: Professional Community for Teachers and Staff

Effective educational leaders foster a professional community of teachers and other professional staff to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (8)
  7a:   Develop Workplace Conditions for Teachers and Staff
  7b:   Empower Teachers and Staff
  7c:   Establish a Professional Culture of Engagement and Commitment
  7d:   Promote Mutual Accountability among Teachers and Staff
  7e:   Develop and Support Trusting Working Relationships
  7f: Design and Implement Professional Learning Collaboratively
  7g:   Provide Opportunities for Collaborative Examinations
  7h:   Encourage Improvement of Programs and Practices

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research about developing workplace conditions for teachers and other professional staff that promote effective professional development, practice, and student learning. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Possible artifacts from EDL 5800 and EDL 5600 (but not limited to)
  • Finally, present a reflective analysis on how important it is to design and implement job-embedded and other opportunities for collaborative professional learning with faculty and staff.

Standard 8: Meaningful Engagement of Families and Community

Effective educational leaders engage families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (10)
  8a:   Engage Families and Members of the Community
  8b:   Create and Sustain Relationships with Families and Community
  8c:   Engage in Two-way Communication with Families and Community
  8d: Maintain a Presence in the Community
  8e:   Create Means for Community Partnerships
  8f: Use of Community Resources
  8g:   Develop and Provide the School as a Resource
  8h:   Advocate for the School and District
  8i: Advocate publicly
  8j: Build and Sustain Productive Partnerships

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the four bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research for school and community relations. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Artifacts from EDL 5800 and EDL 6200
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses such EDL 5800 and EDL 6200 promote success of students through collaborating with and responding to families and community. (3-5 sentences)
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge and growth has impacted your praxis.

 

Standard 9: Operations and Management

Effective educational leaders manage school operations and resources to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (12)
  9a:   Monitor Operations and Systems
  9b:   Manage Staff Resources
  9c:   Manage Fiscal, Physical, and Other Resources
  9d:   Accountable Steward of School Resources
  9e:   Protect the Work and Learning of Teachers and Staff
  9f: Employ Technology to Improve Operations and Management
  9g:   Develop and Maintain Data and Communications Systems
  9h:   Help School Community Understand Local, State, and Federal Laws
  9i: Develop and Manage Relationships with Feeder Schools
  9j: Develop and Manage Relationships with Central Office and Board
  9k: Administer Systems for Fair and Equitable Management
  9l: Manage Governance Processes and Internal/External Politics

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research for the school organization, management of resources, and the need to provide a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Artifacts from EDL 5500, EDL 5300 and EDL 6200 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses, such as EDL 5500, EDL 5300 and EDL 6200, and prominent authors increased understanding for providing an organizational structure that facilitates a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, conclude with a reflective analysis of how this professional knowledge and growth has impacted your praxis.

 

 

Standard 10: School Improvement

Effective educational leaders act as agents of continuous improvement to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Self-Rating Element (10)
  10a:   Seek and Make School More Effective
  10b:   Use Methods of Continuous Improvement
  10c:   Prepare the School and Community for Improvement
  10d:   Engage Others in an On-going Process
  10e:   Employ Situationally-Appropriate Strategies for Improvement
  10f: Assess and Develop Educational Trends
  10g:   Develop Systems of Data Collection connected to Partners
  10h:   Adopt a Systems Perspective
  10i: Manage Uncertainty, Risk, Initiatives, and Politics
  10j: Develop and Promote Leadership about Improvement

 

Reflection Format: This reflection should contain the items listed in the bullets below.

  • List authors and summarize relevant research about the best practice methods of continuous improvement to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission, and promote the core values of the school. (3-5 sentences for each author)
  • Present a practical application scenario.
  • Artifacts from EDL 5300, EDCI 5020 and EDUC 5850 (but not limited to)
  • Present a reflective analysis of how courses, such as EDL 5300 and prominent authors augmented your insight into the importance of developing technically appropriate systems of data collection, management, analysis, and use for continuous school and classroom improvement. (5-7 sentences)
  • Finally, explain how to develop and promote leadership among teachers and staff for inquiry, experimentation, and innovation and for initiating and implementing improvement.

 

List and explain the six major principles of IDEA, then briefly describe how each principal impacts students with severe disabilities. Define self-determination and list the four essential characteristics. Explain, in your own words, why self-determination is critical for individuals with severe disabilities?

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Quiz 1-IDEA

List and explain the six major principles of IDEA, then briefly describe how each principal impacts students with severe disabilities.

Define self-determination and list the four essential characteristics. Explain, in your own words, why self-determination is critical for individuals with severe disabilities?

Define what is meant by full-inclusion based on IDEA guidelines and describe both the advantages and disadvantages of inclusion for students with severe disabilities.

Describe the components of an Individualized Health Care Plan. Why is this plan critical for students with severe disabilities?

Identify three “risk factors” that can impact the development of a child. Explain how each issue could be address, while considering cultural factors that may also determine the overall outcome.

After you skimmed the resources, what 2-3 essential questions did you develop? What are some strategies for promoting effective relationships with parents or guardians?

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Partnership with parents & Family Engagement

1. What was the subject of your project? Partnership with parents & Family Engagement

2. What were some resources that you found during your research? (You could name articles, books, websites.)

  • Funds of Knowledge for Teaching
  • A Spirit of Community: Partnering with Families During the Pandemic
  • Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement
  • Minority Parent and Community Engagement
  • A New Wave of Evidence

3. After you skimmed the resources, what 2-3 essential questions did you develop?
3.1 What are some strategies for promoting effective relationships with parents or guardians?
3.2 After Pandemic the importance of family engagement in student’s education was more eminent and/ crucial, what measures were established to maintain and promote family engagement in WA.
3.3. Multilingual and minority communities are the most at risk when it comes to Technology advancement accessibility, how we have overcome this challenge and if there was any shortcoming how we can ensure we will be protected and equipped for these sensitive communities?