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TELESEMINARS:
Partnering with Parents in Dropout Prevention:
The Need and the How
Aurelio M. Montemayor, Director, Parent Information and Resource Center, IDRA
Dixie Jordan, Co-Director, Family and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE), PACER
Deborah Leuchovius, Director, Technical Assistance on Transition and the Rehabilitation Act
(TATRA) Project, PACER
As research indicates and experience sadly makes all too clear, students who drop out of school face a difficult future.
They are more likely to be unemployed, incarcerated, and/or impoverished. For students with disabilities, the risks are
intensified. However, families can play an important role in ensuring that their student with or without disabilities
graduates. By staying involved, focusing on individual strengths, finding the right school setting, and holding high
expectations, parents can help their children prepare for successful adulthood. Ms. Jordan and Ms. Leuchovius will
provide participants with a brief summary of research highlighting the role of parents in dropout prevention, examine the
need for parents and families to stay involved in the education of their sons and daughters throughout their middle school
and high school years, and supply examples of practical strategies that families can employ to help teenagers to succeed.
Mr. Montemayor will present IDRA�s four dimensions of valued parent engagement, which include parents as
(1) teachers, (2) resources, (3) decision makers, and (4) leaders and trainers. Mr. Montemayor will provide clear
explanations as to how these four dimensions are reflected in effective educational policy and parent engagement practice.
This Teleseminar was held on November 9, 2006.
Translating National Data into State and Local Practice
Dr. Jose Blackorby
This teleseminar presents recent national data from the Special
Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) and the National
Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) related to the issue
of school completion among students with disabilities. It
uses current national data to compare completers and non-completers
on student characteristics, academic and social outcomes, school
programs, and engagement. Several of these topics are
addressed from different points of view including those of parents,
teachers, and students themselves. Finally, it describes
how these data can be used for program planning and implementation
at the state and local levels, as well as how to access the national
data online.
This Teleseminar was held on February 16, 2006.
Increasing
School Holding Power for All Students
Dr. Maria "Cuca" Robledo Montecel
The
topics presented in the teleseminar include a new framework
for transforming schools, a discussion on how communities
and schools can work together, gaining knowledge of the school
factors that are key to student success based on researchand
the Intercultural Development Research Association's (IDRA)
experiences. An example of the power of shifting from a deficit
view to one of valuing youth is presented.
This Teleseminar was held on December 8, 2005.
Effective Approaches to Increasing Graduation Rates for All Students
Dr. Camilla A. Lehr
Dr. Lehr provides an opportunity to learn more
about effective programming at universal, selected, and targeted
levels to decrease the numbers of students leaving school without
a diploma. Research-based answers to questions about who drops
out and why, the best way to address the dropout problem, and
key components of dropout prevention programs are also
addressed; examples of effective interventions are provided.
This Teleseminar was held on October 5, 2005.
Dropout
Prevention: The (Ex)Students' Perspective
Dr. Larry Kortering
This session examines youth perceptions of high school and
the roles these perceptions might play in developing interventions
that hold promise for keeping more youth with and without
disabilities in school until graduation.
This Teleseminar was held on February 28, 2005.
WEB SEMINARS:
Dropout Prevention and Youth with Disabilities: What the Research Says Really Works!
Dr. Brian Cobb, Colorado State University
What works in dropout prevention for youth with disabilities? How do you know for sure?
Dr. Brian Cobb has used rigorous standards for scientifically-based research written
over the past two decades in the United States and other English-speaking countries
around the world to separate the 'wheat from the chaff' on this topic. Dr. Cobb provides
insights from the past five years of research synthesis, examining instructional
interventions that help prevent secondary-aged youth with disabilities from dropping out
of school or engaging in activities that correlate highly with dropping out.
This Web Seminar was held on May 25, 2006.
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Presentation Materials |
| Introduction |
Audio w/Graphics
(3.3 MB, 1:13) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Research |
Audio w/Graphics
(15.9 MB, 5:43) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| SRW |
Audio w/Graphics
(7.4 MB, 2:47) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Standards |
Audio w/Graphics
(24.7 MB, 9:09) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Studies |
Audio w/Graphics
(36.0 MB, 13:02) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Characteristics |
Audio w/Graphics
(5.9 MB, 2:06) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Summary |
Audio w/Graphics
(2.3 MB, 0:50) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Questions and Answers |
Audio w/Graphics
(105.1 MB, 45:51) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Closing Remarks |
Audio w/Graphics
(1.8 MB, 0:56) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
| Complete Presentation |
Audio w/Graphics
(204.3 MB, 1:26:58) |
Transcript
(PDF) |
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Information Flyer
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On-line Discussion Flyer
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