References

• *New York City Board of Education
• *Anoka Hennepin School District (MN)
• *Oak Park River Forest High School District (IL)
• *Pueblo City School District #60 (CO)
• *Lake County Schools (Tavares, FL)
• *Orange County Schools (Orlando, FL)
• *Volusia County Schools (Deland, FL)
• *Deer Valley Unified School District (Phoenix, AZ)
• *Ysleta Independent School District (El Paso, TX)
• *U.S. Virgin Islands Non-Public Schools (St. Thomas, USVI)
• *Denver Public Schools (CO)
• *Scottsdale Unified School District (AZ)
• *Socorro Independent School District (TX)
• *Simcoe Muskoka Catholic School Board (Barie, Ontario)
• *Lansing School District (MI)
• *Colton Joint Unified School District (CA)

*Consulting work was performed by Blueprint Education Group LLC. Blueprint is a Minnesota-based professional services organization committed to assisting public school districts overcome their most pressing organizational challenges. Blueprint was absorbed by Inside the School in the fall of 2011.

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Change the school’s atmosphere and feelings about cheating

Student cheating. It’s one of the most vexing and pressing problems facing K-12 teachers during an era of intense external pressure. High-stakes standardized and college admissions tests have students chewing their #2 pencils to the nub. Students are willing to do almost anything to appear as if they are performing at or above the level expected of them – from copying homework, to plagiarizing papers, to texting answers to each other during tests.

Parents, too, seem willing to cross the line to help their children “succeed,” even going as far as writing their students’ papers for them. Cheating Part I: Changing School Culture will show teachers and administrators the reasons why cheating is such a big problem today. And, because cheating is a systemic issue that requires action at multiple levels, Cheating Part I: Changing School Culture will focus on practical suggestions at the school-wide level.

Co-presenters Karen O. Clifford and Tricia Bertram Gallant will explain why students cheat and hold a dialogue on ways to prevent it.

Cheating Part I: Changing School Culture is part one of a two-part series on cheating. You can also order Cheating Part II: Addressing Cheating in the Classroom for a discounted price.

After viewing Cheating Part I: Changing School Culture you will be able to:

• Identify various systemic forces that shape student cheating today (from the factors that occur at the individual level, to those that occur at the organizational, institutional, and societal levels)
• Pinpoint which forces may be most powerful at their schools and in their classrooms
• Implement strategies for creating cultures of integrity in their schools
• Identify the reasons (societal factors, attitudes, organizational dynamics) students cheat

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Cheating Part II: Addressing Cheating in the Classroom

The pressure to succeed academically has never been higher. And with the deterioration of students’ ethics and new and clever technologies cheating never seemed so wide-spread. Cheating Part II: Addressing Cheating in the Classroom will share strategies for preventing and responding to cheating so that teachers can focus on what they do best – teach students.

Co-presenters Karen O. Clifford and Tricia Bertram Gallant have a dialogue on the four main areas that educators can make immediate and impactful changes. They are:

• The learning environment
• Perceptions and beliefs that “everyone is doing it”
• Educating students about what constitutes cheating
• Implementing consequences that leverage the cheating moment for learning.

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Inside the School’s 2-Part seminar on cheating features co-presenters Karen O. Clifford and Tricia Bertram Gallant. In part one they have a dialogue about why students cheat, what factors impact their decision to cheat and how to implement strategies to create a culture of integrity.

In Clifford and Bertram Gallant’s second seminar on CD they discuss how to have the awkward and potentially confrontational conversation with cheaters. They will also review what constitutes cheating, perceptions of cheating and how to use consequences and leverage effectively.

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Karen O. Clifford, Ph.D. is currently conducting research on high school programs for promoting academic integrity and preventing and addressing cheating.  Clifford has consulted with high schools and colleges in developing or revitalizing honor systems and has made numerous presentations about promoting academic integrity, including workshops and webinars for high school teachers, administrators and students.

Clifford earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Virginia, a M.Ed. in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia, and a B.S. in Business/Marketing from Radford University. Her previous experiences include serving as Director of Student Services at Norfolk Collegiate School (a K-12 college-preparatory independent school), Assistant to the Vice President for Student Services at Old Dominion University, Student Development Educator and director of new student orientation at Longwood College, Assistant Director of Academic Support at the College of William and Mary, and Career Counselor at Vanderbilt University. She worked with student-run honor councils at Norfolk Collegiate School, Old Dominion University, and the College of William and Mary. Karen is co-editor of the monograph, "Academic Integrity Matters." 

Tricia Bertram Gallant is the Academic Integrity Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), and is the outgoing Chair for the International Center for Academic Integrity’s (ICAI) Advisory Council. Bertram Gallant has extensive experience in developing academic integrity procedures and policies, working with stakeholders (from students, to faculty to administrators) on creating a culture of integrity, inspiring campus interest in and commitment to addressing integrity and ethics, managing a centralized office for academic misconduct complaints, advising faculty on teaching and classroom management, and teaching students about academic integrity. Bertram Gallant is the author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative (Wiley’s Jossey-Bass, 2008), co-author (with Stephen Davis & Patrick Drinan) of Cheating in School: What we know and what we can do (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and editor of the forthcoming book Creating the Ethical Academy: A Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change (Routledge).

Tricia earned a Ph.D. in Leadership/Higher Education from the University of San Diego, an M.Sc. in Adult Education from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Guelph.

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Middle School Classroom Management

Middle school students can present a challenge in terms of attention and behavior. Teachers often struggle to keep students in line and on task. In order for teachers to have control of their classroom, they must understand what issues their students face at this time in their lives and use techniques to get them involved in classroom learning and activities.

Middle School Classroom Management is a 60-minute online seminar that focuses on middle school classroom management strategies designed to help students succeed academically amidst their preoccupations with typical adolescent concerns about physical growth, maturity, and social issues. The strategies are designed to help students connect with your class, stay on task, and feel comfortable expressing their ideas in a safe environment.

After participating in Middle School Classroom Management you will be able to:

• Identify issues important to middle schoolers
• Design classes to minimize the impact of this age group’s diminished attention span
• Use specific strategies to minimize disruptive behavior
• Use strategies that help students connect with their class

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between January 20, 2010 and January 26, 2010.

Presented by:
Suzanne Tingley

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Making Parents Allies

Parents are often cited as the reason why teachers leave the profession. Parents are the cause for educators to cringe when they hear the phone ring. Teachers hear their mentors talk about how helpful parents were in the good ‘ol days and how much things have changed.

Parents and guardians are crucial to the success of students. Yet, some parents blame, criticize, enable and make excessive demands. Rather than giving in or giving up, educators should learn ways to work with parents. After all, parents and teachers have the same goal – student success.

Inside the School’s upcoming online seminar Making Parents Allies will give practical and rational advice on how to work with challenging parents, get past the roadblocks parents set up and not allow the difficult parents to take educators off task.

After viewing Making Parents Allies you’ll be able to:

• Utilize at least a dozen effective ways to prevent problems with challenging parents
• Use proven things to say and do when parents complain, blame, criticize or go over your head
• Use methods to smoothly and rationally manage power struggles when parents push your buttons

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between January 24, 2011 and January 30, 2011.

Presented by:
Allen Mendler

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Using Rationales to Gain Student Respect and Compliance

Stop me if you’ve heard these before. The vice principal said I didn’t have to! Why do I have to take my hat off? That rule’s stupid! If I’m late for class, I will get in more trouble than if I get caught running in the hallway! Why can’t I run to my car to get my book? Everybody’s doing it! When I pick up my son, I don’t want to have to go to the office to sign a form, I just want him to meet me in the parking lot. Are all the teachers enforcing this rule? John did something much worse than me and got less of a punishment? You can’t prove it!

The list of questions, challenges and complaints can go on forever. Some rules are in the student manual, but are open to interpretation. Some educators have their own rules for their own reasons. In some cases, the educator may even agree with the student or parent that the rule is outdated and silly, but the educator still has to enforce it.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have prepared rationales to every snappy question? Long time teacher and administrator Shannon Holden thought the same thing. Holden developed over 100 answers to those pesky recurring questions.

After viewing Holden’s online seminar Using Rationales to Gain Student Respect and Compliance you won’t walk away from a meeting regretting all the things you wish you would have said. Holden will give examples of many ready-to-go rationales, he will explain how to write a convincing rationale and how to decrease the overall discipline problems at your school.

After participating in Using Rationales to Gain Student Respect and Compliance you will be able to:

• Increase the percentage of students who comply with your school’s rules
• Decrease the amount of discipline problems at your school
• Increase the frequency of positive parental interactions
• Write a convincing rationale
• Identify which school rules/procedures need to be revisited or dropped
• Teach other staff members how to write convincing rationales
• Understand why writing and using rationales is so important

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between January 31, 2011 and February 6, 2011.

Presented by:
Shannon Holden

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Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom

Your classes are full of students with different needs and interests. You have the Aspberger’s student who is an amazing guitar player. One of your ADHD students is the star of the soccer team. The chatty girl who sits in the third row is an artist and her friend is applying to an Ivy League school. Sitting toward the back of the room are students who look like they’ve given up on the school scene. They’re angry and defensive when you ask about their dirt bike race or garage band.

Your job is to teach all the students in the classroom, not just the easy ones. But how do you reach those students who are openly hostile to your efforts?

Inside the School’s upcoming online seminar Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom will give teachers advice about how to help students with behavioral issues succeed, maintain fairness and effectively use consequences as a motivation tool.

Author and behavior specialist Allen Mendler, Ph.D. will offer research-based strategies educators can implement immediately to help reach and teach their most challenging students.

After viewing Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom, you’ll learn:

• Several strategies to help angry and impulsive students learn better self-control
• How to differentiate instruction without students complaining about fairness
• How to use grades and consequences to fit each student while maintaining high standards
• How to redirect impulsive students

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between February 7, 2011 and February 13, 2011.

Presented by:
Allen Mendler

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Breaking Barriers: How Teachers Can Help Black Males Achieve

The declining graduation rate of black males is a national problem and getting worse. The current high school graduation rate for black males hovers around the 50% mark according to the Open Society Institute’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement. This trend can be reversed with the commitment of educators who can influence these young men and encourage them to succeed.

Inside the School’s online seminar Breaking Barriers: How Teachers Can Help Black Males Achieve presents practical applications educators can use to reach out and help school-aged African-American males succeed.

Presenter Dr. Ivory Toldson will review the findings from national surveys and explain how they can be used as classroom solutions. His research discusses the importance of personal, emotional, social and school factors and how those factors impacts academic success for black males.

Toldson will discuss a first-hand experience an educator had on him as a student and how that teacher steered him on a path to academic success. Toldson will review the importance of building relationships with students and give advice on how to act as a long-term guide to them.

In Breaking Barriers: How Teachers Can Help Black Males Achieve you will review factors that have been linked to academic achievement in black males. These factors are:

• Personal and emotional factors, including emotional well being and self-esteem, future aspirations, nutrition, peer relationships and substance use
• Family factors, including household composition, parents’ education and parents’ relationship with children
• Social and environmental factors, including economic standing, population density, the juvenile justice system, and civic, community, school-based and extracurricular activities
• School factors, including perceptions of school, relationships with teachers and school safety

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between February 10, 2011 and February 16, 2011.

Presented by:

Ivory Toldson

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About Inside the School

Inside the School provides practical teaching resources to educators online, on CDs and in printable reports. Inside the School also provides an e-newsletter filled with helpful tips and tricks for today’s teachers and administrators twice weekly to over 16,000 subscribers, or Insiders.

How does an Inside the School online seminar work?
An Inside the School online seminar is delivered entirely over the Internet. No telephone connection is needed. You simply connect to a private link that will be emailed to you and access the seminar online through your computer. The seminar is presented in a special browser window that features a slide show presentation in one panel and sound and playback controls in another panel.

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Available in CD or print transcript format. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in. Presenter handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. For a discount, you can receive both the CD and transcript in a convenient package.

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These online seminars are available on CD or on-demand over the Internet. You can view Dr. Mendler’s seminars as many times as you’d like during the on-demand week or add them to your professional development libraries for viewing year after year.

Dr. Mendler’s available presentations . . .

Connecting with Students

The students who stop to talk to you in the halls are more likely to perform well academically than those who wouldn’t be caught dead talking to a teacher. Of course, chatting with students isn’t a miracle cure for poor grades. However, students who connect with their teachers are more willing to learn.

Making students feel connected both academically and socially should be a top priority for educators. You don’t have to act like best friends with your students or know who’s dating whom, but taking an interest in students’ life outside of class will improve your student-teacher relationships and increase student engagement inside your classroom.

In Connecting with Students, best selling author and renowned speaker Dr. Allen Mendler will share strategies, advice and first hand experiences on how to get students connected.

After viewing Connecting with Students you’ll be able to:

• Learn practical and school-friendly relationship-building strategies that any teacher can integrate into their daily classroom procedures
• Discover simple ways to connect with academically turned off and socially isolated students to improve achievement
• Connect with students who won’t do anything by using the 2×10 method

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between November 29, 2010 and December 5, 2010.

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Teaching Students Responsibility

You know Alex didn’t log off the computer correctly like you had asked him to, even though he said he did. You just watched Brittney copy her classmate’s homework, but she still denied it – vehemently. You’re positive Tyrell was late for class because he was joking with friends in the hallway, even though he claims another teacher kept him late.

Some students just don’t take responsibility for their actions. As teachers, it’s our job to teach students the skills they’ll need for success outside of school like respecting deadlines, dealing with consequences, and making responsible choices.

School psychologist Dr. Allen Mendler will explain how to motivate students to take responsibility for their actions and encourage them to do the right thing.

After viewing Teaching Students Responsibility, you’ll be able to:

• Apply a three-step process to teach students responsibility
• Use rules and consequences effectively
• Respond to covert student misbehavior
• Respond effectively to students who blame others

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Making Parents Allies

Parents are often cited as the reason why teachers leave the profession. Parents are the cause for educators to cringe when they hear the phone ring. Teachers hear their mentors talk about how helpful parents were in the good ‘ol days and how much things have changed.

Parents and guardians are crucial to the success of students. Yet, some parents blame, criticize, enable and make excessive demands. Rather than giving in or giving up, educators should learn ways to work with parents. After all, parents and teachers have the same goal – student success.

Inside the School’s upcoming online seminar Making Parents Allies will give practical and rational advice on how to work with challenging parents, get past the roadblocks parents set up and not allow the difficult parents to take educators off task.

After viewing Making Parents Allies you’ll be able to:

• Utilize at least a dozen effective ways to prevent problems with challenging parents
• Use proven things to say and do when parents complain, blame, criticize or go over your head
• Use methods to smoothly and rationally manage power struggles when parents push your buttons

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between January 24, 2011 and January 30, 2011.

Register for Making Parents Allies now!

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Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom

Your classes are full of students with different needs and interests. You have the Aspberger’s student who is an amazing guitar player. One of your ADHD students is the star of the soccer team. The chatty girl who sits in the third row is an artist and her friend is applying to an Ivy League school. Sitting toward the back of the room are students who look like they’ve given up on the school scene. They’re angry and defensive when you ask about their dirt bike race or garage band.

Your job is to teach all the students in the classroom, not just the easy ones. But how do you reach those students who are openly hostile to your efforts?

Inside the School’s upcoming online seminar Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom will give teachers advice about how to help students with behavioral issues succeed, maintain fairness and effectively use consequences as a motivation tool.

Author and behavior specialist Allen Mendler, Ph.D. will offer research-based strategies educators can implement immediately to help reach and teach their most challenging students.

After viewing Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom, you’ll learn:

• Several strategies to help angry and impulsive students learn better self-control
• How to differentiate instruction without students complaining about fairness
• How to use grades and consequences to fit each student while maintaining high standards
• How to redirect impulsive students

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between February 7, 2011 and February 13, 2011.

Register for Teaching Impulsive, Inattentive and Oppositional Students in the Differentiated Classroom now!

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Tips for Motivating Even Your Most Difficult Students

Motivation – or lack-there-of – is very often the difference between a student passing or failing. Smart students can fall flat on their faces because they aren’t motivated to study or complete assignments. On the other side of the coin, students who aren’t academically gifted can excel because of their willingness and determination to learn. So how can educators motivate students to dig deep and reach their full potential?

Inside the School’s upcoming online seminar Tips for Motivating Even Your Most Difficult Students will give can’t-miss strategies to get every student in the classroom to want to learn, contribute and succeed. Author of Motivating Students Who Don’t Care Allen Mendler, Ph.D. will share six keys that trigger and sustain motivation. He will also give practical strategies that you can implement immediately to get results from unmotivated and difficult students.

After viewing Tips for Motivating Even Your Most Difficult Students, you will be able to:

• Employ proven strategies to encourage your students to put forth more effort
• Remove obstacles that kill your students’ desire to learn
• Use concrete techniques that will help your students eliminate the language of failure
• Reawaken your discouraged students’ excitement and enthusiasm for learning
• Use practical tips to encourage students to turn in their homework on time

Presentation Date/Time:
This 60-minute video seminar will be available on-demand anytime between February 21, 2011 and February 27, 2011.

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About Dr. Allen Mendler

About the Presenter: Allen Mendler, Ph.D.
Allen Mendler, Ph.D. is an educator and school psychologist who resides in Rochester, New York. He has worked extensively with children of all ages in regular education and special education settings. Dr. Mendler has consulted to many schools, day and residential centers, including extensive work with youth in juvenile detention. Dr. Mendler’s emphasis is on developing effective frameworks and strategies for educators, youth professionals and parents to help difficult youth succeed. As one of the internationally acclaimed authors of Discipline with Dignity book, Dr. Mendler has given many workshops and seminars to professionals and parents, and is highly acclaimed as a motivational speaker and trainer for numerous educational organizations.

He is the author or co-author of 13 books including Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators, What Do I Do When…?, Motivating Students Who Don’t Care, Connecting with Students, Discipline with Dignity for Challenging Youth and More What do I do When. His most recent publication, Handling Difficult Parents is a practical handbook that offers proven strategies that all educators can use to set the right tone with difficult parents. His articles have appeared in many journals including Educational Leadership, Kappan, Learning, Reclaiming Children and Youth, and Reaching Today’s Youth. Dr. Mendler has been recognized for his distinguished teaching by the Bureau of Education and Research, and was a recipient of the coveted Crazy Horse Award for having made outstanding contributions to discouraged youth.

About Inside the School

Inside the School provides practical teaching resources to educators online, on CDs and in printable reports. Inside the School also provides an e-newsletter filled with helpful tips and tricks for today’s teachers and administrators twice weekly to over 16,000 subscribers, or Insiders.

How does an Inside the School online seminar work?
An Inside the School online seminar is delivered entirely over the Internet. No telephone connection is needed. You simply connect to a private link that will be emailed to you and access the seminar online through your computer. The seminar is presented in a special browser window that features a slide show presentation in one panel and sound and playback controls in another panel.

The seminar can be viewed on a single computer screen or be projected onto a larger one for a group setting.

Click here for a short demonstration of what an Inside the School online seminar looks like.

Available in CD or print transcript format. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in. Presenter handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. For a discount, you can receive both the CD and transcript in a convenient package.

For your convenience, you may order online and pay with a purchase order or check. Simply select the “Bill Me” option. You may also order by phone at 888-391-4465 ext. 2 or by fax/mail by downloading the PDF order form.

All of our products have a satisfaction guaranteed policy. It’s simple – if you are not satisfied with your CD or transcript, contact us and we’ll refund your money. No questions asked.

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Protect Your District: Know the Special Ed Law

Your school most likely has mandatory special education training requirements to fulfill and it’s an issue for every teacher. Your regular ed teachers are part of the team, too, and it’s impossible to comply with the law if they’re not performing their roles effectively. Do they know all they should? Do they have a solid grounding in the principles, practices and laws relating to special ed students? Are they able to act in the best interests of students, families, your school and your school district? Get the answers in Inside the School’s Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series.

 

Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series …
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Created expressly for non-special ed teachers, it’s content-rich, wonderfully convenient, and exceptionally affordable. It will help you:

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• Better serve the needs of special ed students and their families.

Delivered on CD, each seminar in the series lasts approximately one hour, and features a blend of video and PowerPoint. Each also comes with transcripts and reproducible handouts. Your entire school will have the education materials for years to come.

It’s hard to express just how much essential information is contained in these in-depth presentations, but here are some content highlights from each:

Seminar #1: IDEA Overview provides an introduction to, and overview of, special education law. It covers:

• The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
• Child find and evaluation requirements.
• Determining eligibility.
• FAPE requirements.
• Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams.
• Placement options and alternatives.
• Informed consent.
• Due process.
• And more.

Subsequent seminars in the series expand on these and other essential program elements:

Seminar #2 Evaluations and Eligibility

• Required steps for IDEA compliance.
• When preplacement evaluations are required, and who conducts them.
• Evaluation tools and timelines.
• Processes for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs).
• Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs).
• Determining eligibility.
• Disability definitions and categories.
• Reevaluations – timing, limits and process.
• Response to Intervention (RtI) issues.
• Parents’ rights.

Seminar #3 Procedural Rights and IEPs

• The IEP document as the central vehicle for providing special education.
• Its importance in protecting school districts from litigation.
• IDEA’s core requirements for IEPs – Present Level, Annual Goals, Goal Measurement.
• The statement of services and what it must include.
• IEP team composition – required and discretionary members.
• The roles of the regular-ed teacher and others in IEP development and amendment.
• The amendment process for IEPs.
• Roles in implementation of the IEP.
• Timelines and notification requirements.

Seminar #4 Discipline Provisions

• How discipline rules and limitations differ for special ed students.
• Important distinctions between Removal and Change in Placement.
• Removal and the “ten-day rule.”
• What determines a Change in Placement.
• The importance of documentation.
• Manifestation determinations – process, roles and notification requirements.
• Requirements when manifestation is (or is not) determined.
• Interim Alternative Education Settings requirements.
• Parental appeal process and stay-puts.

Seminar #5 Transitions

• Post-secondary concerns regarding special-ed students.
• Post-secondary options.
• Timeframe for identifying transition needs.
• When a Statement of Transition Needs must be prepared and what it should include.
• Transition planning and the IEP.
• Rights of students at the age of majority.

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Seminar #6 Private Schools

• Parents’ right to place their child in a private school.
• FAPE and the private school option.
• Whether and when reimbursement is required.
• Proportionate funding obligations.
• Claim requirements for reimbursement.
• Private preschool issues, including impact on child find.
• Evaluation and notification processes pertaining to reimbursement.
• Public school services for private school students.
• Due process rights for children in private schools.

Seminar #7 Due Process

• Parental right to due process.
• Parental procedural rights, including notification.
• Working with the district insurance carrier.
• General rules for due process hearings.
• Preparation of witnesses.
• Review of records.
• Due process timelines.

BONUS: Seminar #8 Section 504

• Overview of Section 504 and Title II of the ADA.
• Eligibility parameters under Section 504.
• Where Section 504 and IDEA intersect.
• Impact of amendments effective Jan 1, 2009.
• Mitigating measures.
• FAPE and Section 504.
• Requirements of an Individual Accommodation Plan (IAP).
• Reevaluation processes and timeframes.
• Discipline issues for Section 504, esp. drug and alcohol exceptions.
• Parents’ rights.

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About the Presenter: Thomas N. Shorter
Presenter Thomas N. Shorter is a shareholder in the Employment, Health Care and Education Practice Groups in the Madison office of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Tom represents health care and educational institutions, providing counsel in labor and employment and regulatory matters such as collective bargaining, FMLA compliance, discrimination issues, discipline and discharge, services for children with disabilities, IDEA, Section 504, ADA, HIPAA, EMTALA, Stark, and Anti-Kickback issues. His heath care practice includes working with hospitals, physicians’ groups, research institutions and other health care organizations. His education clients include public and private K-12 educational institutions.

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Super-convenient!

Train in groups, or let teachers watch each CD on their own, as their schedules permit. Then add the program to your school’s permanent staff-development library, to train new teachers and provide refresher training on a yearly basis.

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Click here for an executive summary of Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series to pass on to the entire staff and ensure easy ordering.

CD format makes training affordable for all

When you send people to offsite seminars, you have to pay for travel, lodging, meals and the like. You also pay steep seminar fees to help cover built-in costs—for the facility, the seminar leader’s travel, the AV setup, the onsite coordinator, etc. And the more people you send, the more you pay! No wonder offsite is off-limits for most schools.

But programs like this one really change the game for group training. With seminars delivered on CD, you incur none of travel costs, and the built-in costs are few. That means you can experience the program at a remarkably modest price.

Cost:
The entire Special Education Law: 8-Part Training Series costs $899 … no matter how many people you train. Purchase the program, and you can share it with all the teachers in your school. (And not just this year, but for years to come!) It’s not hard to do the math; depending on the size of your school, your training cost can drop to just a few dollars per teacher.

An opportunity you can’t afford to miss …

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Dispel the "mean girl" tendencies from your classroom.

When adolescent girls are socially aggressive, they may use gossip, rumor spreading, peer manipulation, and eye rolling as a means of damaging another girl’s self-esteem and/or her relationship with others. Being victimized is associated with a number of outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

In this seminar, Helping Girls Cope with and Communicate about Social Aggression, we will highlight social aggression and these associated outcomes. We will also focus on an easy-to-use method based on narrative communication, psychology, and therapy research to help girls cope with their emotions.

This seminar will highlight activities teachers can do with students that are designed to help girls communicate about and cope with their experiences with social aggression. Given that young people often experience difficulty when it comes to using language to express their emotions about stressful life events, these activities involve students communicating about social aggression through metaphor and art.

Save 25% through your Middle School Journal offer! The CD originally for $249 is now $186, the Transcript originally for $99 is now $74 and the CD/Transcript package originally for $299 is yours for only $224.

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This seminar will help you reflect on current practices and think more about aligning those practices with more ideas proven through research. In addition, the information will be useful to educators who may be struggling to address the multiple challenges that an increasing number of students present as barriers to learning.

After viewing this seminar you will be able to:

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Help your students communicate about and cope with social aggression!

About the Presenter: Erin Willer
Erin K. Willer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. After receiving a B.S. in Speech Communication Education with a minor in English Education from Illinois State University, she was a high school speech and English teacher. Erin also completed an M.S. in Communication at Illinois State and a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on the communicative management of the dark side of interpersonal, intergroup, and family relationships and how such management impacts individual and relational well-being. The lion’s share of Erin’s research centers on how adolescent girls and young women communicatively manage social aggression (e.g., gossip, social exclusion, peer manipulation) and the potentially negative and positive outcomes of these processes. Erin is a member of the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association. Her published works included:

Willer, E. K., & Cupach, W. R. (2008). When “sugar and spice” turn to “fire and ice”: Factors affecting the adverse consequences of relational aggression among adolescent girls. Communication Studies, 59, 415-429.

Willer, E. K., & Cupach, W. R. (in press). Social aggression among adolescent girls. In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close relationships—II. New York: Routledge.

Braithwaite, D. O., Bach, B. W., Baxter, L. A., DiVerniero, B., Hammonds, J., Nunziata, A. M., Willer, E. K., & Wolf, B. M. (in press). Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Koenig Kellas, J., Willer, E. K., & Kranstuber, H. (in press). Looking for the happily ever after? Making sense of the dark side (and the dark side of making sense) of personal relationships. In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close.

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Available in CD or print transcript format. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player. Our CDs are not compatible with Macintosh computer systems. Presenter’s handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. For a discount, you can receive both the CD and transcript in a convenient binder package.

For your convenience, you may order online and pay with a purchase order or check. Simply select the "Bill Me" option. You may also order by phone at 1-800-433-0499 or by fax/mail by downloading the PDF order form.

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Become a parent management expert to reduce your number of negative parent encounters and increase job satisfaction.

Teachers have taken courses in classroom management, but they are often unprepared for the “parent management” part of their jobs. As parents become more demanding, teachers become more stressed, even to the point of leaving the profession. Clear and frequent communication with parents before problems arise is key, and developing a skill set to work with parents can help teachers feel more confident and competent in dealing with this growing aspect of their jobs.

To help you respond to this emerging trend of parent involvement Inside the School has bundled its two popular seminars "Dealing with Difficult Parents: Prep Work" and "Dealing with Difficult Parents: Face-to-Face" to offer the greatest value in parent management training.

By watching in these seminars, you will gain the professional advantage you need to ensure that parents are working with you to improve each student’s educational experience.

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Online Seminar #1: Dealing with Difficult Parents: Prep Work

Online Seminar #2: Dealing with Difficult Parents: Face-to-Face

Why should you order these CDs or transcripts?
Research indicates that about 1/6 of teachers nationwide leave the profession every year (Harvard Graduate School of Education 2005) and parent management is a top reason almost half cite for leaving (Consortium for Policy Research in Education 2005). Parents have become more demanding, and teachers often feel unprepared or unsupported in their interactions with them. Gain the tools you need to avoid difficult situations before they rise and to manage conflit for the situations you cannot avoid.

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About the Presenter: Suzanne Tingley
Suzanne Tingley began her career in education by teaching English in Paraguay, South America as a Peace Corps Volunteer. When she returned home to New York, she taught high school and middle school English and served as department chair for several years. She then became the Academic Dean at a private independent school. Returning to public education 5 years later, she was an elementary school principal for 3 years and then became a superintendent of schools, retiring in January 2008 after 15 years in that position.

Tingley has published over 50 articles in education journals including seven Commentaries in Education Week, the education journal of record. One of her essays was included in The Last Word: The Best Commentary in American Education (Education Week Press 2007).

She is an adjunct professor for the State University of New York in the Department of Education Administration and was recognized by the university with an award for her work in the program. She was given the Outstanding Administrator Award by the New York State School Library Association in 2002. In 2007 she was named a “Woman of Distinction” by the New York State Senate. She has served on state and local boards and serves on the Board of Trustees at a local college.

She has taught many workshops and seminars and currently works as an education consultant. Her book, How to Handle Difficult Parents: A Teacher’s Survival Guide (Cottonwood Press 2006) received very favorable reviews in professional publications. Shortly after the book appeared, Dr. John Rosemond reviewed the work in his nationally syndicated column, praising its practical advice and humor. The book rose to #30 on Amazon’s best seller list within the month.

Tingley holds a BA from The Ohio State University and an MS from the State University of New York at Oswego.

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Available in CD or print transcript format. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player. Our CDs are not compatible with Macintosh computer systems. Presenter’s handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. For a discount, you can receive both the CD and transcript in a conveneinet binder package.

For your convenience, you may order online and pay with a purchase order or check. Simply select the "Bill Me" option. You may also order by phone at 888-391-4465 or by fax/mail by downloading the PDF order form.

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Originally Broadcast on April 26, 2010 • $249
60-Minute Recording of Video Online Seminar

When teachers attempt to bring up new content, they can be met with groans, excuses, pointless requests, requests to go to the bathroom, and so on. Inside the School’s online seminar Teaching Content Outrageously will review strategies and ideas teachers can apply to their lesson plans that will put a stop to the time wasting and non-engagement.

Presenter Stanley Pogrow, Ed.D., believes that when teachers apply their imagination to teaching, students will apply their imagination to learning. He will review tips on the best way teachers can start developing outrageous lesson plans, apply the best of conventional and outrageous teaching and gather the courage to attempt at least one outrageous lesson.

Teachers that do take the leap of faith to teach outrageously might discover changes in student behavior and attitude. An unusual teaching approach or lesson can get even the most uninterested students participating. The imaginative, playful and old-fashioned weird lessons will also leave a lasting impression on students and open new doors to your teaching style.

The techniques you will learn in Teaching Content Outrageously will provide practical ways to realize the ideal that drew you to the teaching profession in the first place: inspiring your students.

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In Teaching Content Outrageously you will be able to:

• Learn why creative approaches to teaching increase learning
• Know why the approach of outrageous instruction is unique in the application of creative technique to the teaching of content standards
• Learn the basic lesson planning techniques of developing outrageous lessons
• Learn the schoolwide and teacher benefits of outrageous instruction

About the Presenter:
Stanley Pogrow is a professor Emeritus of education at the University of Arizona and a professor of Educational Leadership at San Francisco State University. Dr. Pogrow specializes in advanced forms of teaching and learning to reduce the achievement gap. He is the author of more than 120 articles and 5 books, including: Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12 (Jossey Bass). He is also a very dynamic speaker.

Pogrow earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.B.A from Bernard Baruch University and his B.S. from the City College of New York.

Available in CD or print transcript format. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in. Our CDs are not compatible with Macintosh computer systems. Presenter’s handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. For a discount, you can receive both the CD and transcript in a convenient package.

For your convenience, you may order online and pay with a purchase order or check. Simply select the "Bill Me" option. You may also order by phone at 888-391-4465 or by fax/mail by downloading the PDF order form.

All of our products have a satisfaction guaranteed policy. It’s simple – if you are not satisfied with your CD or transcript, contact us and we’ll refund your money. No questions asked.

Originally Broadcast on April 26, 2010 • $249
60-Minute Recording of Video Online Seminar

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