Student Summaries from the 2006 Summer Symposium

The following presentations were given at the 2006 Summer Symposium put on by the NYC Regional Task Force on Quality Inclusive Schooling. The links will take you to PDF summaries of the presentation. The summaries were written by Teacher Prep students.

• School-Wide and Individual Student-Level Positive Behavior Supports and Inclusion by Craig Michaels of Queens College
• Supporting General Educators Teaching Mathematics Inclusion by Janet DeSimone of Lehman College
• Parents and Teachers ... A Natural Union by Ellen McHugh of Parent to Parent of NYS
• Strategies to Reach All Learners: Mathematics the UDL Way by Dolores Burton of NYIT
• Understanding Childhood Obesity and Its Impact on Learning and Behavior by Stephen Phillips of Touro College
• Attention! Creating an Environment for Success for Kids with ADHD by Wilma Jozwiak of The Maywood School
• Social Experience of Children with Special Needs in Inclusive Early Childhood Classrooms: Teacher's Roles in Supporting Social Relationships by Yoon-Joo Lee of Brooklyn College
• Teachers Can Play Together: An approach to collaborating for Inclusion by Florence J. Schneider of Kingsborough Community College
• Expansion of Options: Development of a Campus-Based Inclusion Model for Students with Autism by Dianne Zager of Pace University
• Accessing the General Education Curriculum for Students with Disabilities in Secondary Schools by Hal Epstein of NYC Department of Education
• Differentiated Instructions 101 by David Connor of Hunter College
• Inclusion, General Ed & Special Ed Working Together: how does it feel? by Maria Crowe of Queens High School of Teaching
• Response to Intervention (RTI) by Matthew Giugno of VESID
• Stepping into Educational Advocacy: Parents Lead the Way by Catherine McHugh of NY State Commission on Quality of Care