education

2017 Scholarship Opportunities from Sacramento Region Community Foundation

2017 Scholarship Opportunities from Sacramento Region Community Foundation

Annual scholarship awards range from $500 to $7,000 and may be used for tuition, fees, and educational expenses at accredited academic colleges or universities and vocational training programs.

Taal (Rhythm): A Dance Program for Mentally-Diverse Youth

Taal (Rhythm): A Dance Program for Mentally-Diverse Youth

Taal, which translates to "rhythm" in English, is a series of no-cost, recreational and educational dance classes designed with the mentally-diverse student in mind.

Teaching Autistic Students Cheat Sheet

Teaching Autistic Students Cheat Sheet

Our "Teaching Autistic Students Cheat Sheet" is a concise list of research-backed teaching methods that can be viewed and shared electronically, or printed out. The document can be used by anyone - parents, educators, therapists, other service providers - to quickly gain a core set of methods for teaching autistic students.

An Overview of Independent Educational Evaluations (IEE) in the Special Education Process

An Overview of Independent Educational Evaluations (IEE) in the Special Education Process

IEEs are a tool provided for by federal law that allow parents to pursue assessments of a child that are performed by assessors independent of the school system, if parents believe that the assessments performed by a school are inappropriate or problematic.

Multisensory Structured Language Instruction for Dyslexia

Multisensory Structured Language Instruction for Dyslexia
"Students with ‪‎dyslexia‬ need multisensory structured language‬ (MSL) instruction. This means that ‪‎teaching‬ techniques are explicit, direct, cumulative, intensive, focused on the structure of language, and coordinating the use of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic–tactile pathways simultaneously to enhance memory and ‪learning‬ of written language."

Rocklin Schools Hit with Student Abuse Claims

Rocklin Schools Hit with Student Abuse Claims
Two families have filed claims against the Rocklin Unified School District alleging that their special-needs children were subjected to physical and psychological abuse at the hands of a teacher at Breen Elementary School during the last school year.

SASSNA and School Board Candidates Discuss Education on KFBK Radio

This Wednesday, October 29th, from 7:00PM to 8:00PM, SASSNA chief executive officer Dave Gaines and the five candidates for the San Juan Unified School District school board will be appearing live on Sacramento radio station KFBK's Pat Walsh Show for a discussion about education.