Registration
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About the Program
Target Audience: Special Education educators
The alternate assessment has brought writing into focus as a core means of communication.
The challenge is knowing HOW to teach writing for students with complex barriers and
WHY this is important. In this session, we explore the foundational elements to create
the writing instruction framework and a process to successfully measure writing using
the First Author Writing Curriculum.
Participants will learn:
- The elements of a comprehensive, high-quality writing curriculum for students with
significant disabilities that will help educators meet federal academic standards
- How to measure writing on a 14-level writing quality scale that is sensitive to the
smallest growth in beginning writers and describe additional writing measures that
show text type diversity, topic diversity, total intelligible words, and total unique
words
- How First Author can support beginning writers and provide formative data on writing
progress.
About the Presenters
Kimberly Jackson-Betke
Kimberly Jackson-Betke is a Curriculum Specialist at Don Johnston Incorporated. Her
expertise in education trends, funding and statewide initiatives provides curriculum
resources to key administrators, principals, district directors and teachers for students
with complex needs, with an emphasis on organizational culture. Kimberly helps educators
integrate and deliver classroom and virtual solutions to improve reading and writing
performance for struggling students and students with disabilities.
Accommodations
CART captioning is provided for all SCATP webinars. If you need an additional accommodation
to participate, please contact us at least one week prior to the webinar via e-mail or by phone at 803-935-5263.
All program webinars are recorded and archived on our training page.