Celebrations! – ASSEC Presenters

January 7th, 2014  

If you have celebrations from your school to share, please email Denise Kelly. If not, we will find them!

Congratulations to the following folks for their upcoming presentations at the Alaska State Special Education Conference (ASSEC) in February!

star-bullet-point-blog Tim Galpin – From Sped Student to Sped Teacher: Accommodations Then & Now AND Data Collection and the IEP: Easily Show Progress to Parent, Admin & Students

star-bullet-point-blog Amy Sundheim (with Chris Sturm, UAA Center for Human Development) – Getting Started with Applied Behavior Analysis

star-bullet-point-blog Tim McIntyre and Holly Zwink – Building Academic Vocabulary: A Program that Dramatically Increases Reading Comprehension for Sped Students

Good luck or break a leg (whichever you prefer)!!

 

Celebrations! – Happy Retirements!

May 10th, 2013  

Thank you for your years!

star-bullet-point-blog Gary Benson star-bullet-point-blog

 star-bullet-point-blog Lindy Cox star-bullet-point-blog

 star-bullet-point-blog Melisa Frates star-bullet-point-blog

 star-bullet-point-blog Mary Glynn star-bullet-point-blog

 star-bullet-point-blog Wally Hufford star-bullet-point-blog

 star-bullet-point-blog Sharon Schulz star-bullet-point-blog

Celebrations! – Nikiski Jr/Sr

April 4th, 2013  
We have a special spot in the newsletter for celebrations of staff excellence and innovation. If you know any person or team to celebrate, please let Denise Kelly know!

Through much collaboration and dedication, the Nikiski Middle and High School intervention and special education staff have begun to align their interventions and special education services, particularly in the area of language arts instruction with the Language! curriculum and Read 180.

Hats off to the team at Nikiski Middle / High for working together to ensure a fluid continuum for the provision of services for your students!

Celebrations! – KCHS Study Skills

March 17th, 2013  

We have a special spot in the newsletter for celebrations of staff excellence and innovation. If you know any person or team to celebrate, please let Denise Kelly know!

With the guidance and assistance of their school psychologist, Dr. Tim McIntyre, the teachers of KCHS, Lois Bisset, Melisa Frates, Granger Nyboer and Holly Zwink, have incorporated Robert Marzano’s & Debra Pickering’s book, Building Academic Vocabulary, into their study skills classes. Over the past year and a half, special education students have made gains in their understanding and use of vocabulary in their classes. If you are interested in learning more, contact any of the team at KCHS!!

Hats off to the team at KCHS for pushing study skills to be more than a study hall for students to get their class work done!