Ms. Wausheka McClary, the Parent Mentor for the Elbert County School District, encourages parents to get involved in the graduation process. We must "know when our children are graduating and get them ready!"
The Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership website (http://www.parentmentors.org/) provides an insider's guide to raising, educating and supporting a child needing special education related services.
Ms. Wausheka McClary, the Parent Mentor for Elbert County School District, discusses her role in building relationships with parents and emphasizing the importance of graduation.
The Georgia Parent Mentor Partnership website (http://www.parentmentors.org/) provides an insider's guide to raising, educating and supporting a child needing special education related services.
As an ASPIRE consultant, Colleen Lambert, encourages students to take a more active role in their Individual Education Program (IEP). Through the collaboration between the Georgia Department of Education and the Georgia Developmental Disabilities Council, school personnel and families are working together to build self advocacy skills in students with disabilities.
Catherine Fowler, Project Coordinator, National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) reflects on Georgia's positive efforts at achieving better post secondary outcomes through creating a system of interagency collaboration and implementing evidence based practices.
Dennis Medders, Principal of Manchester High School, discusses how C.A.F.E.'s have encouraged collaboration between students, families, and communities to bring about successful relationships and improved achievement in Manchester High School.
Jan. 10, 2010 marked an important turnaround for Rutland High School. It was the fulfillment of a CAFÉ (Circle of Adults Focused on Education) goal – to organize a charter PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association) at the school. It is one of the success stories for the SPDG project. “It is really just about getting the right people together,” said Collaboration Coach Patricia Swartz. The first year of the CAFÉ was about “digging down and seeing what the problems were…what was needed to improve graduation rates,” she said.
Webinar participants will hear how schools have redesigned programs, adopted new practices, and implemented research-based strategies to become highly successful in preventing students with disabilities from dropping out of school.
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Dr. Linda Curry, Director of Middle Georgia GLRS, discusses the North Star Project. Students develop their "North Star" plan which is a visual representation of the path he/she wants to follow to reach those goals/ objectives.
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