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Assistive Devices |
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Eleven assistive technology devices are demonstrated for anytime/anywhere desktop professional development. This is an interactive DVD.
Target audience: Teachers and Administrators in schools with a focus on Alternative Assessment. |
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Autism Core Elements |
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This project translated the Autism Core Assessment document into over 600 photographs. These digital images have been developed into a DVD, website, printed color document, acrobat document and powerpoint slideshow.
Target audience: teachers and staff delivering direct service to children with Autism. |
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Best Practices |
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This is an interactive DVD containing six samples of best practices in instruction designed for coaches to use in their delivery of professional development. Each sample is edited to eliminate the need for a voiceover and to maximize an authentic glimpse into a District 75 classroom.
Target audience: Teachers in professional development workshops. |
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Best Practices: Related Service Teaming |
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A close look at techniques used to coordinate service to children who require extra therapeutic intervention from multiple providers. Format: DVD
Target audience: Principals and related service providers. |
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Boardmaker in Action |
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This is a Boardmaker tutorial demonstrated for anytime/anywhere desktop professional development. Hands on Boardmaker projects are also demonstrated for immediate implementation. This is an interactive DVD.
Target audience: Teachers and Administrators in schools with a focus on Alternative Assessment. |
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Braille Instruction
Strategies |
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This project profiles the approach to teaching Braille to 2 distinctly different learners.
Target audience: teachers of children with Blindness |
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Brigance®
Inventories:
Interactive |
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This DVD is an interactive staff development tool designed to help teachers new to Brigance® Inventories to acquire the skills needed to administer, adapt and score the scales
for Children with Special Needs
Target audience: District Educational Staff |
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Brigance®
Inventories:
Interactive Update |
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This DVD is an interactive staff development tool designed to help teachers update the skills needed to administer, adapt and code the scales
for Children with Special Needs
Target audience: District Educational Staff |
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Building an
Inclusive Culture |
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An exploration of a unique collaboration between two Principals, a General Educator and a Special Educator: who have, together;created a truly inclusive school.
Target audience: General Education Staff and Parents |
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Exploring Assistive Writing Software |
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This DVD is a tutorial and demonstration of software used to improve, aid, or facilitate the writing skills of students with multiple challenges.
Target audience: Staff |
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Exploring Classroom Management |
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A video of a morning routine and an accompanying interview with the teacher presents strategies for managing the classroom.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Exploring the Literacy Block |
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Elements of the Literacy Block presented in individual videos of students, teachers and paraprofessionals in action.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Express Tutorials for Assistive Software |
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This DVD provides portable professional development to support the specialized software distributed to classrooms of children in Alternative Assessment.
Target audience: District 75 Alternative Assessment Staff |
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IndTECH |
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IndTECH is a program established in the Special Education District (75) which makes unique use of the talents of Industrial Arts teachers and their students. It is a great example of students with Special Needs helping other students with Special Needs.
Target audience: Administrators, Educators, Parents and Students |
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Integrating Fundations in the Classroom |
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The elements of Fundations in action, as taught in Special Classrooms, presented in selected video clips.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Integrating Technology in the Classroom |
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Six stories showing the seamless, targeted, and strategic use of technology for students with a variety of learning styles and needs. This DVD includes many interviews with students.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Learning Through Technology:
Three Stories |
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This is a glimpse into the use of technology by a student with emotional challenges, a student with physical and developmental challenges, and a high school student with blindness.
Target audience: Educators and parents |
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Learning Together |
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PS138, a Special Education School, and PS148, a General Education School, work collaboratively to include students at the highest standard.
Target audience: District 75 Staff, Parents, Conference Participants |
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Life Space Crisis Intervention in District 75 |
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This DVD is a glimpse into, and a description of, the implementation of L.S.C.I. in District 75, a large urban school district in New York City with a focus on Special Needs students.
Target audience: Community, Staff, Parents |
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Morning Tour |
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Footage of a classroom in District 75 illustrates, in captions and voiceover, an introduction to managing the classroom.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Observing Sanou |
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This DVD contains clips of Sanou, a student with Multiple Challenges. Each set of clips focuses on Sanou through a separate “lens” (eyegaze, positioning et al). Also included is a multi-disciplinary Team Meeting with Protocol captions
Target audience: District 75 Staff of Alternative Assessment |
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Orientation and Mobility |
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This interactive DVD shows the skills and ongoing instruction in using a cane to travel inside and outside for elementary and High School students.
Target audience: Parents of children with blindness. |
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Pre-K Classes for Children with Autism |
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This project is a video profile of the new classes established to serve children with Autism. An interview with the Principal of PQ4 on the principles behind the program is illustrated with in class video of teachers and students interacting.
Target audience: parents. |
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Pre-K Integrated Programs |
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Hear from Administrators, Educators and Parents about a vibrant program integrating children with Special Learning Needs in a General Education Pre-School classroom.
Target audience: District 75 Staff, Administrators, Parents |
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Preparing Meals for Children with Severe Disabilities |
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This is a joint project between District 75 Clinical Support Services and School Food, which demonstrates the preparation of pureed and transition foods for children with feeding problems.
Target Audience: Food services and clinical support staff. |
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Protocol for Programmatic Equipment |
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Eight video segments demonstrate, and explain, how to integrate devices in classrooms for children with severe disabilities including children on the Autism spectrum
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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Ramp Up: A Literacy Strategy |
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This interactive DVD presents each element of Ramp Up in action in real classrooms in District 75.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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R.S.V.P.
Recreational, Social, Vocational Program |
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Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their experience in the RSVP program during the Summer of 2007
Target audience: General Community, District Staff and Parents |
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Teachers College Model in
District 75 |
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Pick from a menu of videos showing the components of the TC Literacy Block in action. All the clips are taken on site in a District 75 classroom actively using this method.
Target audience: District 75 Staff |
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The Children of District 75 |
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A clear overview of four District 75 programs, including Children with Autism, Behavioral Challenges, Sever Disabilities, and Children in Inclusion Settings.
Target Audience: Staff. Parents, Community |
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Tour of District 75 |
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This project includes an overview of District 75 on CD-ROM with basic statistics, mission statements, teacher profiles, program profiles and a looping movie showing the students.
Target audience: prospective teacher |
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Travel Training |
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This DVD includes three videos on travel training topics: Purposeful Movement, Analyzing the Environment, and Assessment.
Targeted audience: Educators and parents of children with disabilities. |
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Turning Five |
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View a compilation of video clips and stills offering a glimpse into the nature of the classroom experience for children turning five in District 75
Target audience: Parents, Educators, Administrators |
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Yoga in the Classroom |
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A glimpse into the integration of yoga into a classroom to give children with emotional challenges a strategy for self-control and self-awareness
Target audience: District 75 Staff |