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Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Forum

Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Forum. Improving Student Achievement: Literacy and Conceptual Accuracy. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Plan. Mission Goals Current Situation Strategies to Achieve Goals Actions. Mission of the Georgia Department of Education.

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Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Forum

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  1. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Forum Improving Student Achievement: Literacy and Conceptual Accuracy

  2. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Plan • Mission • Goals • Current Situation • Strategies to Achieve Goals • Actions

  3. Mission of the Georgia Department of Education Lead the nation in improving student achievement

  4. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Plan: Goals • Improve the literacy levels of students who are deaf and hard of hearing to those of their grade-level peers.

  5. Goals - continued • Increase the number of qualified Educational Interpreters and Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing serving students within Georgia’s schools. • Ensure that students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing receive a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive, communication-rich environment.

  6. Georgia Deaf Education • Total P-12 enrollment (’03-’04) = 1,513,521 • D/HH enrollment = 1,754 (GA = 0.12%) (US = 0.14%) • State Schools = 250 (approx.) • Metro-Atlanta = 500 • Outside Metro-Atlanta = 1,000

  7. Service Providers • Teachers of the D/HH = 250 • Fully Certified D/HH = 235 • Educational Interpreters = ??? • Interpreters with required credentials (regardless of employer) = 125 • Of these, within Metro-Atlanta= 95 • Of these, outside Metro-Atlanta= 30

  8. Data Collection • A goal that cannot be measured is only a slogan. Alan Coulter

  9. Least Restrictive Environment • Common Assumption: “The Least Restrictive Environment for all students is in the Regular Education classroom with non-disabled peers.”

  10. LRE: Definition To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled (IDEA, 1997)

  11. Strategies to Achieve Goals • Literacy • Scientifically-Based Reading Research • Reading First • D/HH Struggling Reader Institutes • Georgia’s Choice • Comprehensive School Improvement Model • Literacy, Mathematics, Leadership • Professional Learning Communities

  12. Strategies to Achieve Goals • Qualified Personnel • Educational Interpreters • Focused, long-term support structure • Mentor Program • Professional Learning Communities

  13. Strategies to Achieve Goals • Qualified Personnel • Teachers • Improving Literacy • Communication Skills • Technology • Professional Learning Communities

  14. Least Restrictive Environment • Georgia’s Performance Goals • Federal Requirements • Assumptions • Unique Communication Needs • Court Decisions • Language • Challenges

  15. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Plan:Actions • Focus actions on improving literacy • Professional Learning Communities • Ongoing Data Collection • Communication • Technology

  16. Mission of the Georgia Department of Education Lead the nation in improving student achievement

  17. Georgia Deaf Education Achievement Forum Improving Student Achievement: Literacy and Conceptual Accuracy

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