NCCRESt's 1st Annual National Forum

Creating Opportunities to Learn: A Forum for Addressing Disproportionality

February 15-17, 2006
Denver, CO

Keynote Presenters included:
Alfredo Artiles, Beth Harry, Joe Johnson, Janette Klingner, Elizabeth Kozleski, Peggy McIntosh, Glenn Singleton, and Brenda Townsend.

The National Forum was a great success and an exciting event. Some of the nation’s top education experts gathered and addressed issues of equity, power and privilege, race, systems change, and policy leadership. Seventy-five concurrent sessions focused on creating culturally responsive educational systems to assure equity in educational outcomes for all students and become the vehicle for eliminating the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education. There was tremendous participant interaction, culminating in a Town Hall at the end of the conference that will guide continuing work.

Keynote Presentations:

Creating Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (PowerPoint, 2MB)
by Alfredo Artiles, Beth Harry, Janette Klingner, Elizabeth Kozleski, Grace Zamora Duran.

Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversations About the Impact of Race on Student Achievement (PDF, 4.2MB)
by Glenn E. Singleton

Demographics and Destiny (PowerPoint, 100KB)
by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D.

Preconference Presentations:

Data Driven Decision Making: A Systems Approach to Disproportionality (PowerPoint, 4.3MB)
by Alfredo Artiles, Teresa Dias, and Elizabeth Kozleski

Literacy in L2: It's not just 'good teaching' (PowerPoint, 1.4MB)
by Kathy Escamilla from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Bibliography (Word doc, 28K)

So you want to do something about disproportionality... A guide to working at the state, district, and local levels. (PowerPoint, 2.7MB)
By Beth Harry and Shelley Zion

Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention (RTI) Modes and Literacy Instruction (PowerPoint, 11MB)
By Margarita Bianco, Janette Klingner, and Michael Orosco

Concurrent Session Presentations:

A Professional Development Model with a Focus on Disproportionality (PowerPoint, 1.4M)
By The Wisconsin Regional Service Network (RSN)

CESA 12 Disproportionality Grant 2005-06 (PowerPoint, 285K)
By WI Department of Public Instruction Discretionary Grant

Addressing Adequate Yearly Progress: School-wide Positive Behavior Systems (PowerPoint, 330K)
By Fairfax County Public Schools, VA

An Ecological Model for Discriminating Emotional Behavior Disorders from Cultural Difference (PowerPoint, 221K)
By Lisa Bardon, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Daria Paul Dona, Ph.D. from Minnesota State University-Mankato

An Examination of Disproportionality in Special Education: Professionals Partnering with Parents (PowerPoint, 486K)
By Yvette Plummer from Denver Community Parent Resource Center

Applying Culturally Relevant Strategies to Systemic Reform: Los Angeles Unified School District (PowerPoint, 873K)
By Noma LeMoine, Ebrahim Maddahian, Daniel Patton, Randy Ross, Liza Scruggs

Calling All School Leaders! Reducing Disproportionality through Culturally Responsive Leadership (CRL) (PowerPoint, 140K)
by Lisa Maria Grillo and Tracy D. Dace from the University of New Mexico

When is Disproportionality Truly Disproportionate? (PowerPoint, 232K)
By Clifford V. Hatt, Ed.D, ABPP & Jon Thompson, Psy. D. from Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Preparing Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers: Collaborating for Success! (PowerPoint, 166K)
By Dr. Alice Farling, Dr. Mary V. Kealy and Nicole Conners

Are the Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices that I Value Realized Inside My Classroom? Part I (PowerPoint, 1.8M)
By Donna Sobel, Ph.D. and Sherry Taylor, Ph.D.

Are the Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices that I Value Realized Inside My Classroom? Part II (PowerPoint, 285K)
By Donna Sobel, Ph.D. and Sherry Taylor, Ph.D.

Disproportionality and the Family-School Connection (PowerPoint, 266K)
By Barbara Leach from the Family Support Network of North Carolina and Teresa Dais, Ph.D. from NC Department of Public Instruction

Everyone is a Language Learner Here: Language Ideologies in a Dual-Language School (PowerPoint, 111K)
By Shanan Fitts from the University of Colorado-Boulder

The State-Wide Implementation of Positive Behavioral Support Systems: Building Strong Schools to Strengthen Student Outcomes (PDF, 1MB) By Dr. Howard M. Knoff from the Arkansas Department of Education

The SPRINT (School Prevention, Review, and Intervention Team) Process (PDF, 294KB)
By Howard M. Knoff, Ph.D. from the Arkansas Department of Education

Addressing Disproportionality through Technical Assistance: A Case Study of New York (PowerPoint, 370KB)
By Project 405 Team, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and New York University

Positive Behavior Support Systems: The Need for Developing Culturally Responsive Systems (PowerPoint, 1.2 MB)
By Michael J. Orosco from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Monitoring Compliance on Disproportionality: How Do You Focus? (PDF, 650KB)
By W. Alan Coulter & Constance Patterson from the National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring Center in New Orleans, LA

Moving Towards Equity (PowerPoint, 440KB)
By Shana Ritter, Indiana Disproportionality Project, Initiative on Equity and Opportunity, and the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at Indiana University

Sources of Disproportionality in Special Education: Tracking Minority Representation through the Referral-to-Eligibility Process (PowerPoint, 249KB)
By Ashley Gibb, M. Karega Rausch, and Russell Skiba from the Indiana Disproportionality Project and Indiana University

Special Education for Adolescent Latino Students with Limited Formal Schooling: Issues, Stories, and Perceptions of Students and Their Teachers (PowerPoint, 201KB)
By Diane Staehr Fenner

Stimulating the National Dialogue Around Culturally Responsive Systems (PowerPoint, 67KB)
By The IDEA Partnership

Urban Students with Disabilities’ Perspectives on their Inclusion in a High-Stakes Test (PowerPoint, 623KB)
By Lauren Katzman, Ed.D. from Boston University

Reducing System-wide Racial Disproportionality in the Prevalence of Emotionally Disabled Students (PowerPoint, 1.8MB)
By The Chesapeake Bay Consulting Group