Special Education Collaborative Activities with Business ...
Special Education Collaborative Activities with Business/Industry
• The Department of Special Education works with Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company to provide the Special Olympics Family Fun Festival to 1,000 individuals with development disabilities each Fall. Approximately 550 Eastern students, 200 of whom were Special Education majors, were involved Fall 2004.
• Special Education faculty serve on the following external advisory Councils
Rebecca Cook: Resource and Referral Advisory Board
Kathlene Shank: Special Olympics Area 9 Games Committee
Kathlene Shank and Christy Hooser: Family Fun Festival ICTC Advisory Committee
Thomas Sinclair serves on the Graywood Foundation Human Rights Board.
Joy Russell serves on the SAIL (Soyland Access for Independent Living) Board and the Charleston Parks and Recreation Board.
• James Basham worked with an alternative school in Champaign to develop a student produced and digital video enhanced socials skills curriculum. Project was co-sponsored by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Hewitt-Packard (HP)
• Rebecca Cook is the outside evaluator of the Effingham School/Business Community mentoring program for children at the elementary level. She has attended the mentoring meetings with business constituents and group meetings with the school and community businesses. Reports of the evaluation were given to businesses participating in the mentoring program.
• Melissa Jones gave a Presentation "Promising Practices for Special Education in an Era of Reform" at EIASE Fall Institute, Steering Committee member of EIU Fall Educators' Conference, Revision of SPE 3600 and accompanying investigation of technology-enhanced course.
• Linda Kirby is a Focus Group Leader at Charleston High School for the Soaring Schools Project sponsored by the Lumpkin Family Foundation. This project involves extensive school reform activities and is networked with the ISBE/SREB High Schools That Work Grant and the ISBE Comprehensive School Reform Grant.
• Joy Russell has participated in these activities in the Strategies to Improve P-16 Teaching and Learning area:
o “Grow Your Own-A Successful University-School Partnership”, State Director’s Conference, Springfield, 2004.
o “Mentoring & Induction”, Illinois Education Association Meeting, 2004.
o “LBS I Statewide Pilot Training”, Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education, 2003.
o “NCLB” Regional Office of Education, 2003.
o Research on Accommodations Regular Educators are willing to Implement for Students with Special Needs, Statewide, 2003to 2004.
o National Staff Development Council, 1994 to present.
o American Association of Educational Service Agencies (AAESA), 1994 to present.
o Illinois Association of School Administrators (IASA), 1994 to present.
o Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1991 to present.
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