Welcome: Vicki Alhstrom welcomed everyone.
UPDATES:
ULRC
Bruce Schroeder
introduced the program and made announcement about the
CSPD election deadline Monday, March 16, 1998. State improvement grant committee
will be meeting March 24 to work on grant process.
Davalee Saley Miller
introduced the March Utah
Special Educator on New Opportunities, New
Challenges...Accountability: Measuring Achievement. She said it was
a good sample from around the state. She pointed out the registrations for
upcoming conferences in back of the magazine.
Jerry Christensen
announced that the Preschool Conference registration
is closed. There are about 1100 people registered. It should be a good conference.
PARENT CENTER
Helen Post had the final registrations for their conference on March
27-28. There is plenty of room still available to attend.
USOE
Tim McConnell gave information about statewide inclusion conference
and call for papers. Conference will be November 12-13, 1998 at Snowbird.
Registration is in Utah Special Educator.
Deb Andrews announced that the BEST teams institute will be with
John Maag on March 26-27. October 22-23 will be BEST Conference at the Provo
Park Hotel.
Brenda Broadbent discussed the future preschool conferences and asked
consortium to fill out questionnaire to get feedback for next year. There
are possibilities of regional conferences and/or change of time of year
for the conference.
Donna Suter announced that for the transition conference, March 19-20,
there are about 600 people registered but about 100 more could come. If
you didn't get a confirmation contact Donna (fax machine).
Mae Taylor-Sweeten announced that Ginger Rhode will be the
new Special
Education Coordinator. She passed out copies of Measures of Child Well-Being
in Utah, 1998 on demographics of children, NASDE Satellite Conference
information, and copies of Counterpoint.
INSTITUTES OF HIGHER LEARNING
University of Utah: Jeanette Misaka announced that nominations are now
being taken for outstanding special education alumni award.
Bruce Schroeder called attention to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune
about Utah State University's Vision Link System that Jane Pemberton
is involved with and has shared information with the Consortium previously.
Utah Valley State College: Kathy Iroz said that they now have a child
care center from Alpine District that provides an opportunity for students
to work with children.
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Ken Reavis told consortium that they are ready to share the next phase
of LRBI, Support for Districts.
Marilyn Likins told us that this phase had been in development for
two years. She introduced Bill Jenson, U of U, and Brad Althouse, USU, who
presented the information about the functional analysis computer program
and how it works. USU, USOE and U of U developed this program together.
It needed to be fast and accurate. They used a fictional student and demonstrated
how the program works, giving tips and examples. Program should take about
20 minutes to complete per student. The goal is to have this program available
to schools by August. Program also includes videos of key behavioral interventions
such as differential reinforcement.
Jerry Christensen presented information on technology. He handed
out "Five Easy Steps to Dynamic Net Viewing" that told how to
download information to view the Utah Special Educator online from the ULRC
web page (www.ulrc.org)
using Adobe Acrobat.
Eugene Paulsen, teacher at Dixon Middle School, Provo School District, demonstrated
how he using the net to give tests to his students. He uses
www.motted.hawaii.edu
to have the students take tests. He prepares the tests
and gives students the web address. They take the test, get instant results
or can have the results emailed directly to the teacher. This is a free
web site for educators. but they must sign up for it. There will be a link
to this from ULRC web page, "Ed Tech Tools (Quiz Center Online) under
Educational Online Resources.
Todd Allen from Provo District demonstrated how those in Provo District
can get their email messages anywhere they have web access.
Colleen Densley & student assistants Shaun Merritt and
Stephanie Robie, Canyon Crest Elementary, Provo District, demonstrated
how to gather scientific data using the Emates and a special temperature
probe. Shawn and Stephanie told of the experiments they were able to do
using the computer program, which gave back data in forms of graphs. They
did a quick demonstration to measure temperature using a glass of water,
a glass of ice water and a glass of ice cubes. They liked the ability to
actually do the experiments and see the results.
It was announced that the Consortium meeting in St. George has been canceled.
The next meeting will be on May 15 at the Inn at Prospector Square in Park
City.
The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.
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