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About Brenda Barrio, Ph.D.

Dr. Brenda Barrio is an assistant professor of special education. Dr. Barrio observed and experienced the inequities within the educational system in the United States as an immigrant of Mexico and later as a bilingual special education teacher in Texas. With a charge of social justice in education, her career focus as an educator for the past 16 years has been to enhance the lives of students with disabilities and students of color through equity and access. Dr. Barrio’s research focuses on addressing disproportionality of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education through the use of culturally responsive practices.

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• Why culturally responsive and relevant IEP’s are so important
• The Culturally Responsive and Relevant IEP Builder (CRRIB)
• Involving families in the IEP process
• How teachers can use culturally responsive and relevant approaches to help students meeting goals
• Getting started with CRRIB
• Addressing our biases
• Eduardo

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Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @DrBBarrio

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Designing Culturally Responsive and Relevant Individualized Educational Programs

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About Mills Smith-Millman, MA

Mills Smith-Millman, MA is currently completing her Pre-Doctoral Internship at the National Center for School Mental Health. In addition to her research career, Mills' currently works as a school mental health clinician in a Baltimore city high school. Both Mills' clinical work and research focus on increasing youth's access to mental healthcare by delivering prevention and intervention services in schools.

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• School mental health providers’ competency in working with LGBTQ youth
• Having a friend in the LGBTQ community
• Recognizing implicit bias
• Challenges mental health providers encountered while working with LGBTQ youth
• School mental health providers who self-identified as LGBTQ
• Ways to strengthen the social and emotional supports for LGBTQ students

Connect with Mills

Researchgate: Mills Smith-Millman

Email: [email protected]

Additional Resources

Ready, willing, and able: Predictors of school mental health providers' competency in working with LGBTQ youth

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The Leading Equity Center

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About Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.

Donna Y. Ford, PhD, is Professor of Education and Human Development and Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair at Vanderbilt University. She is the former 2013 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor and former Betts Chair of Education and Human Development. Dr. Ford currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Special Education and Department of Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Ford has been a Professor of Special Education at the Ohio State University, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Virginia, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky.

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• Black and Brown student representation in Gifted and Talented Programs
• Retention of students of color in GAT Programs
• The significance of culturally responsiveness in GAT Programs
• IQ Testing
• Invitational Learning
• The Five P’s
• Evaluating equity in GAT Programs

Connect with Donna

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @donnayford

Website: www.drdonnayford.com

Additional Resources

Culturally Responsive Gifted Classrooms for Culturally Different Students: A Focus on Invitational Learning

Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education

Gumbo for the Soul: Liberating Memoirs and Stories to Inspire Females of Color

Creating Culturally Responsive Instruction: For Students’ and Teachers’ Sakes

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