Overresprentation of African American
students in Special Education
After meeting with my site supervisor
I started talking staff members about selected students I wanted to do research
on. I think this research plan will benefit the school and the district to discover
different intervention for these students.
Action Planning Template
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Goal: To evaluate our special education
program. To see why so many African American students are in the program.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Gather information
from school and district.
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T.Tillis
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March 2013
November
2013
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Laptop
Internet
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Collect Data
from my school
and district to
Determine what can be
done.
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Interview Special
Education ARD committee
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T.Tillis
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March 2013
November 2013
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Interview
Question
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To see what the
school/district wide policy for referring students.
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Interview the School
Counselor
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T.Tillis
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April 2013
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Interview
Question
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Determine the amount
of these students enroll in Sped.
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Select a group of
students and teacher to determine what can be done to improve school success.
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T.Tillis
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April 2013
June 2013
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Interview
Question
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Find out how the
school climate may effect educational progress.
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Accumulate data and
create a report to present to the school and district.
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T.Tillis
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January 2014
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Interview
Question
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Determine problematic
issues and plan professional development activities to address them.
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Format based on Tool 7.1
from Examining What We Do to Improve Our
Schools
(Harris, Edmonson, and
Combs, 2010)
What brought you to the conclusion that there is an over representaion of African American students and will your study include other races as a comparison. What type of interventions will you use and what are the interventions for. I am assuming that the inervention is to prevent so many Africn American students from being labeled as Special Ed.
ReplyDeleteI teach Special Education inclusion class and none of them are African American. But a number of these are in CBSE classes as Learning Disable and ED, but never been release out of the program. At the high school level.
DeleteMy concern is at the high school level because I see other group have success moving out of the program.
Your project topic is very interesting. It sounds like a dissertation because it is such a broad topic. It might be helpful to narrow it down and focus on one grade level or subject. Also, finding interventions through literature reviews and applying one or two of them to determine their effectiveness. I am very interested in learning from you findings. Good Luck :)
ReplyDeleteMy project could use some comments...if you get a chance :) Thanks
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