While at the National Autism Conference, Dr. Francesca Degli Espinosa joined PaTTANpod to discuss social and verbal skills for students with autism

While at the National Autism Conference, Dr. William Heward and Dr. Janet Twyman joined PaTTANpod to discuss active student responding.

While at the National Autism Conference, David Palmer discussed atomic repertoires and how this concept can help us in the classroom.

While at the National Autism Conference, Dr. Tim Vollmer discussed establishing cooperation when interacting with students with autism.

Teachers play various roles within our school settings all with the common goal of student success. Teachers of the Deaf, specifically, have a unique role for a population of our students. Here from Deb Genet with the Capital Area Intermediate Unit on how these individuals bring a global perspective to the IEP team.

Baldwin High School showcases how they implemented a Competitive Integrated Employment Grant to open the Innovation Shop allowing students to develop life-long skills.

Providing mental health services, supporting students’ ability to learn and teachers’ ability to teach, assisting families in navigating the educational landscape… school psychologists have the expertise to do all this and more. Individuals in the school psychologist role have the ability to bring about positive change in the lives of students and families. Join the panel of school psychologists to hear how this role leads to transformational change.

To achieve positive outcomes for students, our tier 1 instruction, the instruction we provide to all students, needs to be robust. In order to bolster and support those efforts, particularly in math and reading, we need to consider classwide interventions. Dr. Matthew Burns joins PaTTANpod to discuss classwide interventions.

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If we think about the traditional language arts block in a classroom, we see evidence of reading instruction and often times a separate block of time for spelling that is typically shorter in duration. Spelling is important on its own and we need to provide spelling instruction in conjuction with reading instruction. Dr. Rebecca Treiman joins PaTTANpod to discuss ther intersection between reading and spelling.