Welcome High Ability Educators!
Twice Exceptional Learners
with Mary Ruth Coleman
Your ESC of I team is here to support you!
Mark your calendar!
High Ability Networking Events
2nd Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m. EST
November 9, 2022 | High Ability Educator Showcase |
December 14, 2022 | TBD - Be sure to share your needs in the survey after the meeting |
NAGC
National Association of Gifted Children Conference is coming to Indianapolis November 17-20, 2022.
Be sure to check out the Preconvention Sessions!
IDOE Updates
Mary Ruth Coleman
Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D., is a senior scientist, emerita at the FPG Child Development Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and research associate professor in the School of Education. Her research focuses on students with exceptional learning needs, in particular students with learning disabilities and students with gifts.
Dr. Coleman has served three terms on the Board of Directors for the Association for Gifted (TAG), one of which she was President; three terms on the Board of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC); and two terms on the Board of Directors for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).
Dr. Coleman began her career as a teacher in public and private elementary schools, with both regular classroom and special education assignments.
Addressing the Strengths & Challenges
of Students who are 2e
Mary Ruth Coleman, PhD.
Senior Scientist Emeritus
FPG Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Together Today We Will Explore:
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Who are Students Who are 2e?
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As Individual as a Crystal…
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Extreme Strengths & Challenges
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Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Poverty…
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Impacts Across the Lifecourse….
Reflect & Project: As you think about your chosen 2e person across the years, what are some challenges they have or would face at each stage of life: Early Childhood (B-K) Elementary Ed (1-5) Middle School (6-8) High School (9-12) Transition to College Transition to Work Please share one life stage and challenge in the chat space. |
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1: Community of Practice Definition of 2e
Twice exceptional (2e) individuals evidence exceptional ability and disability, which results in a unique set of circumstances. Their exceptional ability may dominate, hiding their disability; their disability may dominate, hiding their exceptional ability; each may mask the other so that neither is recognized or addressed.
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2: Community of Practice Definition of 2e
2e students, who may perform below, at, or above grade level, require the following:
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3: Community of Practice Definition of 2e
Working successfully with this unique population requires specialized academic training and ongoing professional development.
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Policy Implications of the Community of Practice Definition of 2e
Breakout Rooms: discuss the Policy Implications if we adopt this definition of 2e and work to implement it.
(You will have ~15 mins for this task; Please record responses on Shared Doc)
Shared Doc: https://tinyurl.com/2ecoleman
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Policy Implications of the Community of Practice Definition of 2e
Example: MTSS; policy implications for specialize methods for identification: MTSS teams will have to include Tier 2 interventions to address students strengths and support their areas of challenge as they look for progress monitoring data to support identification of student’s needs. Secondary implications: MTSS teams will need training in this; a menu of Tier 2 interventions will need to be created; personnel will need to be ready to implement these. Major stakeholders would include: All educators, students, and their families.
Collaborative Planning: It Takes a Team!
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IEP or 504?
IEP Part of IDEA | 504 Plan Part of Rehabilitation Civil Rights |
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Accommodations vs. Modifications
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Questions?
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EJUTHER
Ejuther, a child wrote in a poem. I will let you puzzle over his word a while.
In another, a child wrote this: I love the canelopera that sits on our piano.
In still another, a teenager wrote: the clouds low and gray, gray as the tip of a pencil and then it starts to rain.
In this way, in the classroom, words come to be born again, come to be with children and their angels, to have word adventures, to croak like frogs in a pond, or cry like babies, or just be safe enough to dance and sing.
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They do not come to be spelled or used correctly.
Of course, what words really want is to be a family,
To be a voice, to call us home, wherever we may be.
All I want, a small child wrote, his heart already broken a million times,
is for peeple to love ejuther.
By: Sandy Lyne
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Networking Opportunity
Breakout Rooms
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