Newsletter addressing legal, policy, and human aspects of disproportionate representation.
California Department of Education (2010).
This website features a collaborative of experts from across child health systems that have come together to advance the social, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing of California’s children and youth. The collaborative works across systems to improve access to services, facilitate innovation, and align the state’s vast resources around the needs of children.
Breaking Barriers. 2020. www.Breakingbarriersca.org (accessed January 31, 2020).
Using California Healthy Kids Survey data the analysis found that students who had larger exposure to restorative practices saw less exposure to exclusionary practices saw less exposer to exclusionary discipline, smaller racial disparities in discipline, and improved academic achievement.
Darling-Hammond, Sean, Lauren Trout, Trevor Fronius, & Rebeca Cerna. 2021. Can restorative practices bridge racial disparities in schools? Evidence from the California Healthy Kids Survey. WestEd https://www.wested.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Restorative-Practices-Bridging-Racial-Disparity-Research-Brief-3.pdf (accessed January 30, 2023).
The book explores how race is talked about and addressed in practice. The book is important because it challenges practitioners to think about how comfortable they are speaking about race in practice and what the implications of their comfort level can be for students.
Pollock, M. Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
This is a compilation of resources that the San Francisco Unified School District has collected on COVID-19 concerning special education with a focus on autism.
San Francisco Unified School District. COVID-19 Resources for Students in Special Education . San Francisco Unified School District.
https://www.sfusd.edu/resources-families-1
Searchable database makes available California district-level annual performance report measures for special education. Contains data collected from each indicator and performance measures but not the local compliance determination. Any inquires from the general public regarding local district determinations should be directed to the local school district.
This is a series of modules on distance learning. The modules cover technology, blended learning, social-emotional learning, continuity of learning, hybrid learning, COVID-19, learning loss, transition back to school, English Language Learners, distance learning strategies and students with disabilities. Modules: 1. Hot Topics in Technology & Pedagogy 2.Continuity of Learning 3. Learning Acceleration Series 4. Advancing Equity in an Era of Crisis 5. Distance Learning Consortium 6. Distance Learning Strategies 7. Rapid Response transition 8. Setting up Virtual Learning Systems 9. Distance Learning 10. Special Education 11. Community Engagement
California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (ccee). 2020. Distance Learning and Teaching Modules. Sacramento, California: California Collaborative for Education Excellence (ccee)
https://ccee-ca.org/resources/distance-teaching-learning/
This School Board Policy on equity ensures access to educational opportunities for all students by minimizing or eliminating the impact of disparities in abilities, levels of preparation, available resources and socio-cultural differences in achievement and performance so that all students may perform at optimum levels.
Mt. Diablo Unified School District. 2012. Equity School Board Policy - BP 5001/Student. Concord, California: Mount Diablo Unified School District
This is a padlet with resources developed by the Imperial County SELPA and curated from existing resources to support and improve outcomes for English Learners with Disabilities. The padlet includes: 1. Resources developed as part of SELPA Content Leads in the California Statewide System of Support. 2. California Practitioners Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities and PowerPoint presentation 3. ELD Standards 4. Unpacking ELPAC Task Types and Additional ELPAC Resources 5. Accessibility Resource Graphics 6. Alternate ELPAC 7. Serving the needs of ELs with Disabilities 8. Blueprints for Effective Leadership and Instruction for our English Learners' Future (B.E.L.I.E.F.) modules.
Imperial County SELPA. 2021. Improving Outcomes for English Learners with Disabilities. Imperial County SELPA.
https://padlet.com/dmontoya18/ImprovingOutcomesELsSWD
Short summaries of outcome data for special education programs and students in California school districts.
