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Blackboard & Special Education:

Blackboard & Special Education:. A Teacher's Approach By Craig Alexander & Karen Williams. Session Focus. Educate Small suburb school on the east side of Cleveland. Innovate Technology is an educational tool Apple & Windows Partnership with SCOCA Everywhere

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Blackboard & Special Education:

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  1. Blackboard & Special Education: A Teacher's Approach By Craig Alexander & Karen Williams

  2. Session Focus • Educate • Small suburb school on the east side of Cleveland. • Innovate • Technology is an educational tool • Apple & Windows • Partnership with SCOCA • Everywhere • Our students, parent and teachers • Our technology director, supervisor and integration specialists • Our Administrative team

  3. EducateBeachwood City Schools • East side suburb of Cleveland, OH • 1700 students in 5 school buildings • Cleveland Magazine’s #1 School District • 3 out of the past 5 years • 66 different school districts including Cleveland and surrounding areas

  4. Beachwood Middle School • Ohio Hall-of-Fame Middle School (1991) • Two BLUE RIBBON Awards (1993 and 2000) • Harvard Business School Award (1999) • National School of Distinction Award for Technology Excellence (2004)

  5. Educate • 97.9% Beachwood High School graduates go on to college • 20% to "selective" colleges • Harvard • Stanford • Duke • Yale • The Advanced Placement program • Beachwood High School offers 13 AP courses. • 73 percent of the scores were in high range

  6. Educate • Our mission statement is “To Develop Intellectual Entrepreneurs with a Social Conscience” Creative, flexible knowledge seeking members who will take risks to see the bigger picture Young men and women who will become the global leaders of tomorrow • Our Motto

  7. Educate • The National School Board Association rated Beachwood City Schools in the top 3% nationwide in the use of educational technology in the classroom. • Beachwood decided technology is not enrichment but an educational tool!

  8. Educate • How to bring other people with us • Professional Learning Communities at Work by Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker • Explorers, Pilgrims and Settlers

  9. Educate • FACTS • Children in special education represent approximately 11% of the student population in the United States • Three out of four students with disabilities will receive at least part of their education in the general education classroom • Twice as many males as females students

  10. Educate • IDEA (Individuals with Disability Education Act) 1975 • IDEIA (added the word Improvement) 2004 (Heward, 2006)

  11. Educate • Educating children with special needs is a difficult challenge Learning Disabilities (LD) Exceptional Learning Styles (ELS) Basic Skills

  12. Educate Children and youth served under IDEA ages 6 to 21 US Department of Education 6,118,437 total

  13. Educate • Special Education is a purposeful intervention designed to prevent, eliminate and/or overcome the obstacles that might keep an individual with disabilities from learning and from full and active participation in school society

  14. Educate • What methods do we use to educate these kids?

  15. Educate Organization • lost folders • lost assignments • lost homework

  16. Innovate • Organization is at Hand: PDAs in the Inclusive Classroom by Anne M. Bauer & Mary E. Ulrich

  17. Innovate • Apple “Profile in Success School” • Only 1 to 1 laptop program in Ohio

  18. Innovate • Beachwood Middle School • Seventh & Eighth grade • Karen • 20 kids • 12 different teachers

  19. Innovate

  20. Innovate

  21. Innovate • Beachwood High School • 54 students use our resource room setting • Four teachers • Four grade & outside of district placements • Roughly 57 different teachers

  22. Innovate

  23. Innovate

  24. Innovate • Aspire went out of business two weeks before school started

  25. Innovate Along came Blackboard Learning System to save the day!

  26. Innovate • How does Blackboard fit into our situation? • South Central Ohio Computer Association • Interactive Distance Learning Partner (IDVL) • 56 districts in 12 different counties in the state of Ohio

  27. Innovate • Grades • Course information • Always there • Students in the 21st century

  28. Innovate • Using course calendar • Starts at midnight • Lists teacher name • Makes the students responsible • Parents can check homework

  29. Everywhere • Impact • Administration • Teachers • Instructional Aides • Students • Parents

  30. Everywhere

  31. Everywhere

  32. Everywhere

  33. Everywhere

  34. Everywhere • Quotes • Student opinions about on-line learning • Middle School • Ricky & Sarah • High School • Different styles • Colleges & University • Williams, Ohio State, Michigan, University of Massachusetts

  35. Everywhere • What does it take to innovate? • Patience • Time • Cooperative environment

  36. Everywhere • Independence • Self advocacy skills • Parent-teacher communication • Student responsibility • Student accountability

  37. Everywhere

  38. Thank You! Craig Alexander cha@bw.beachwood.k12.oh.us Karen Williams ksw@bw.beachwood.k12.oh.us

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