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Addressing Minority Disproportionality in Special Education: Urban Landscapes of Practice

This presentation explores the issue of disproportionality in special education, focusing on the over or under-identification of students from various racial, ethnic, and language groups. Led by a team of experts, we delve into strategies for ensuring equity and access in education, including professional development for practitioners and school leaders, technical assistance, and community engagement. We utilize GIS maps and online learning communities to illuminate the patterns and provide frameworks for understanding the cultural dimensions of learning. Join us in fostering a more equitable educational landscape.

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Addressing Minority Disproportionality in Special Education: Urban Landscapes of Practice

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  1. Re-presenting Urban Landscapes of Practice: Artifact Design to Address Minority Disproportionality in Special Education Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State UniversityDavid Gibson, CurveShiftElizabeth Kozleski, University of Colorado, DenverMichael Knapp,Green River, Inc.

  2. What is Disproportionality? The over or under-identification of students in some racial/ethnic and/or language groups for services in special education

  3. The NCCRESt Response • A TA & D Center focused on equity, access, participation in GENERAL education. • Professional Development • Practitioners, School Leaders, District and State PD and TA providers • Technical Assistance • Information Systems • GIS Maps to tell the story • On-line Learning Communities to build the Networks • Teleconferences to engage educational communities • Product Development • Practitioner Briefs • Assessment Tool • Articles and journal issues targeting the Research Community

  4. Technical Assistance Activity as Mediating Structure Artifacts • GIS Maps • Databases • Discourse • Theoretical constructs on the cultural nature of learning Guiding Principles • Entire System is Unit of Analysis (Expansive Cycles) • Historicity vs. Relativism • Contradictions & Disruptions Lead to Growth (Engeström, 1999) Object Outcomes Culturally responsive educational system Subject Disproportionality of minority students in special education SEA Team Rules Division of Labor Community 1. Commitment to all learners in the activity system. 2. Agreement to engage in technical, practical, and critical reflection and discourse about the role of culture in learning. 3. Commitment to view contradictions and disruptions as opportunities for growth. SEA: General education, special education, and professional development groups. LEA: Administrators, students teachers/interns, families. • Vertical • Horizontal • Dynamic/lateral

  5. www.nccrest.org

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