2015 Leadership Symposium Handouts

Best Practices Institute Handouts

Dr. Tessie Rose Bailey

• MTSS Implementation Toolkit
• What is MTSS/RTI? General Resources Toolkit
• Wyoming MTSS Fidelity of Implementation Rubric

David Boulton

• Children of the Code
• Children of the Code: The Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read
• Children of the Code: Learning to Read, What’s at Stake, What’s Involved
• Do you see what I see?
• Is Wealth Inequality A Matter of Choice?
• Orchestrating Reading (presentation slides)
• Stewarding the Health of Our Children’s Learning
• Wyoming Mental Models: Reading

Dr. Clayton Cook

• Understanding and Addressing Student Mental Health Problems (presentation slides)

Claire Greer

• Aligning Instruction to Standards: The Shifts Administrators Should Expect (presentation slides)
• Rethinking Mathematics Instruction for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (presentation slides)

Kenya Haynes

• Invisible Children: Homelessness in Wyoming (presentation slides)

Pingora

• Considering Residential Placement (presentation slides)
• Educational Stability of Foster Children (presentation slides)
• Resolving Conflict Within the IEP Team (presentation slides)

Dr. Patrick Schwarz

• Best Practices in Transition: A Longitudinal Approach (presentation slides)
• Differentiated Instruction/Universal Design for Learning — Lesson-Unit Plan Template
• Promoting Universal Design, Differentiation & Curricular Adaptations for Student Success (presentation slides)
• Successful Co-Teaching (presentation slides)

Aaron Stabel, M.D.

• Building a History of Learning Success
• Five Effective Strategies to Prevent Behavior Problems
• Foundations of Positive Behavior Management
• Increase Student Independence by Fading One-on-One Aide Supports
• Module_Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention (PMII)
• Prevention Strategies Behavior Plan
• Rubric to Determine Need for Temporary Support Assistance

Law Seminar Handouts

Selene Almazan

• Staying Student Focused When Resolving Disagreements

Selene Almazan and Amy Goetz

• Emerging Section 504 and the ADA_Slumbering Giants Awaken (presentation slides)

Amy Goetz

• Common Triggers To Parent Complaints and How to Avoid Them (presentation slides)

Lenore Knudtson

• Students on the Spectrum & School Violence: Lessons Learned From Sandy Hook (presentation slides)

Lenore Knudtson and Mark Mlawer

• LRE is a Legal Obligation, Not a “One-Size-Fits-All” Analysis (presentation slides)

Jose Martin

• Cases and Issues Involving Suicidal Students with Disabilities
• Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention

Jose Martin and Kathleen Mehfoud

• Residential Placements: Current Issues and Trends in Residential Placements
• Strategies for Preventing and Litigating Residential Placement Disputes (presentation slides)

Kathleen Mehfoud

• Residential Placements: A Review of Tenth Circuit Decisions, Defenses and Strategies (presentation slides)
• The Benefits of Good Data Collection and Reporting on IEP Progress

David Richards

• ADA Effective Communication & the IDEA Student

David Richards and Julie Weatherly 

• IDEA, Section 504 & The Student Receiving FAPE at Home

Julie Weatherly

• Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans: What Does the Law Require?