Videos

We often think of our Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) in isolation. SLPs offer far more than articulation and can drastically help improve the ‘instructional diet’ we offer our students. Pennsylvania’s State Lead in Speech and Language, Elizabeth Christopher, shares how to collaborate with your SLP for increased student learning

This 80 minute video is a recorded presentation from the 2015 PBIS Implementer's Forum. Information includes building capacity of RENEW in PA as well as a case study of a building that implemented RENEW in a specialized school that serves only students with intenstive mental health and behavioral health needs

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better. Maya Angelou This quote reflects why we attend the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance (PATTAN) Conference; to gather information on high-leverage practices drawn from the Science of Reading and the Science of Instruction, so that we can implement those practices to improve the learning and lives of the children we serve. In this end-note, Dr. Archer will focus on these highly effective practices, some are old (Gold) and some are new (Silver), but none of them should be forgotten. This Endnote is designed to summarize and wrap up our great conference.

Joining PaTTANpod is Maria Ronneburger, educational consultant leading the work of this initiative out of the central PaTTAN office. Maria Ronneburger is the new English Learners Educational Consultant, with an accumulation of over 24 years of experience in Pre- K through secondary, Special Education, teaching English as a Second Language, and advanced studies and research in the field of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Mrs. Ronneburger’s combined experience in education, linguistics, and her collaborative work as a leader of numerous community partnerships and programs has cultivated her advocacy for access and equity for all learners providing culturally and linguistically responsive systems, practices and supports. Prior to joining PaTTAN, Mrs. Ronneburger served as an English Language Development specialist with the School District of Lancaster and Director of the RSIG Language Program in partnership with the School District of Lancaster, IU 13 Refugee Center, Millersville University, and Eastern Mennonite Missions. Mrs. Ronneburger earned her Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Millersville University and her master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts- Boston. In addition, she holds a Secondary English Language Arts teaching certification and an English as a Second Language Specialist certification. The Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, or PaTTAN, provides a full array of professional development and technical assistance targeted to improving student results. The work efforts center around various initiatives. One initiative we want to focus on today is the English Learners initiative.

In this 3-hour webinar, learn how school psychologists can serve as agents of positive change in their schools through facilitating data-based decision making in the area of early literacy to improve outcomes for all students.

Representatives from the Butler Area School District joined PaTTANpod to showcase their efforts in building oral language and vocabulary amongst adolescent students.

This webinar’s focus will be on the analysis and applications of the configuration(s) needed of the actual access equipment, its relationship to the user and other equipment, and control of the equipment to be accessed. Discussion will demonstrate how to evaluate features of the equipment to be accessed, analyze the access of that equipment, and determine how the software is organized and configured, as well as how it may change for each student.

Dr. Tyrone Howard shares what it looks like, feels like, and sounds like in an equitable school setting

Policies drive practices... Dr. Heather Bennett from PBSA and Dr. Stacy Winslow from the Derry Township School District discuss the what, why, and how of Educational Equity Policies.

An outline of error correction procedures to be used when teaching tacts of parts and features are presented. Typical error patterns are discussed and specific error correction strategies related to error patterns are presented.