Resources - Publications
Equity in
Education: Addressing racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special
Education
The
Equity in Education manual is intended to provide school districts with
detailed data-driven processes for identifying the root causes of
disproportionality in their district and ensure equitable outcomes. This manual
is the culmination of over 1,000 hours of training with over 900 practitioners
throughout New York State from 2004 to 2008. A major premise of the modules
involves understanding disproportionality as an outcome of policies,
practices, and beliefs. At the end of this data-driven process, school
districts will be able to identify policies, practices, and beliefs implicated
in their disproportionality patterns and, more importantly, develop systemwide
buy-in and perspective of this equity issue.
Academic
Interventions for Struggling Learners: Using Culturally Responsive Instructional
Support Teams
A Promising Practice Brief on
academic interventions for struggling learners. This brief addresses the purpose
of instructional support teams, elements of culturally responsive instruction
and provide resources for response to interventions.
Culturally
Responsive Classroom Management Strategies
A
Promising Practice Brief on culturally responsive classroom management
strategies. This brief addresses essential elements of becoming culturally
responsive and ways in which teachers can implement strategies in their
classrooms.
Using
Differentiated Instruction to Address Disproportionality
A
Promising Practice Brief on differentiated instruction, what it is and how it
applies an approach to teaching and learning for diverse learners. Not all
students are alike and they learn on multiple levels. Differentiated Instruction
recognizes student's varying background knowledge, readiness, language,
preferences in learning, and interests, and assists teachers in knowing how to
differentiate instruction given these various learning areas. This brief
provides information on the principles of Differentiated Instruction, seven
building blocks and available resources.
Data
Analysis Workbook
This workbook, Racial/Ethnic
Disproportionality in Special Education, provides basic quantitative
methods used to explore disproportionality. It demonstrates how to use a set of
district data with the most common formulas for uncovering possible instances of
disproportionality as well as examine and interpret the results of the formulas.
Download the Powerpoint, Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special
Education to use this workbook.
Racial/Ethnic
Disproportionality in Special Education
This Powerpoint provides
measures of disproportionality by using the Data Analysis Workbook. Download the
workbook to use this Powerpoint.