39th Annual Conference on Dyslexia and Related Learning Disabilities
 
TK-38 Let’s Make a DEAL!

Speaker
, Professor, Special Education/Learning Disabilities and Chair, Department of Special Education, Member, Advisory Council, Everyone Reading , School of Education, Hunter College, NY, NY


Description
The demands of schooling mount: standards, benchmarks, rigorous curriculum, promotion criteria, high expectations, and the raising of the bar. So, what about the supply-side of this deal? A handshake takes two, no? What are the supports, resources, and changed ways-of-doing-school needed to meet the challenge of increasing kids’ learning, day-by-day, grade-by-grade – for life? Dr. Garnett offers blueprints for “how-to” make this deal work -- perspectives from longitudinal experience teaching kids with reading, writing (and other) learning disabilities and from enduring partnerships with their stalwart and special teachers.