[EDEQUITY] Weekly resource list

From: Hilandia.Rendon, EdEquity Moderator (edequity-admin@phoenix.edc.org)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 14:02:21 EDT


Dear EdEquity members:
This week resource list is short but checkout the two books that are on our
list which focus on gender and disability issues.
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CONFERENCES:
1) National Association for Multicultural Education
            NAME website: http://www.nameorg.org
Join us in Las Vegas, Nevada for NAME's 11th Annual Conference
High Stakes: Achievement, Assessment and Advocacy Through
Multicultural Education
November 7-11, 2001 at the Riviera Hotel

2)Connecticut State Department of Education CSDE website:
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/calendar/index.htm
6th Annual Connecticut Conference on Multicultural Education
Teaching for Social Justice
October 25, 2001 - Sheraton Hotel, Waterbury, Connecticut

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BOOKS:

1) DOUBLE JEOPARDY Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education
Harilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer, editors

Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with
disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.

Highlighting the educational issues of girls and young women with
disabilities, Double Jeopardy examines how they are exposed to
discrimination based on gender and disability/special education status, and
how they experience less successful vocational outcomes than their disabled
male or nondisabled female peers upon leaving school. It studies both
gender equity issues and inequitable practices that affect a wide range of
students, such as Title IX, biased curricula, inequitable student-teacher
interactions, and other issues such as eligibility for special education
services. The book also describes innovative programs and strategies
designed to empower disabled youth, who are ten percent of all students.

"This book is unique in that it focuses on gender equity and disability
equity with additional important attention to race, age, and economic
issues that contribute to multiple types of inequitable educational
treatments and outcomes." -- Susan Shurberg Klein, editor of Sex Equity and
Sexuality in Education

Contributors include Adrienne Asch, Michael Benz, Bonnie Doren, Estelle
Eskenazi, Nancy Ferreyra, Michelle Fine, Craig Flood, Merle Froschl,
Dolores A. Grayson, Katherine Hanson, Taran Jefferies, Eric Jolly, Melissa
Keyes, Eleanor Linn, Theresa Mickey McCormick, Harilyn Rousso, Ellen Rubin,
Michelle Schwartz, Susan Shaffer, Linda Shevitz, Susan J. Smith, Ellen
Wahl, Michael L. Wehmeyer, and Maryann Wickett.

Harilyn Rousso is Executive Director of Disabilities Unlimited Consulting
Services. She is the author of Disabled, Female, and Proud!: Stories of Ten
Women with Disabilities, with Susan Gushee O'Malley and Mary Severance.
Michael L. Wehmeyer is Research Associate Professor and Director, Beach
Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas. He is the
coauthor, with Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes, of Teaching
Self-Determination to Students with Disabilities: Basic Skills for
Successful Transition.

A volume in the SUNY series,
Social Context of Education
Christine E. Sleeter, editor
August 2001 / 306 pages
Illustrated: 3 figures
paperback ISBN 0-7914-5076-7
hardcover ISBN 0-7914-5075-9
The contact information for ordering is: phone: 607-277-2211; e-mail:
orderbook@cupserv.org; website: www.sunypress.edu

2)Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools is a new book
edited by Anne M. Bauer, Ed.D., & Glenda Myree Brown, Ed.D. It uses Purcell
Marian High School in Cincinnati, Ohio as an example of a successful
inclusive inner city high school. The book is a collection of personal
stories from faculty members.
Based on their experience, the faculty members believe that successfully
changing schools to inclusive environments is dependant on commitment and
the willingness to change, not simply supplying more staff and/or
resources. This book has ideas that can help teachers change their
curriculum, manage student's with challenging behavior, design
accommodations, and perform alternate assessments.
To find out more about this book, contact the Brookes Publishing Company or
visit www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/bauer-515x/index.htm online.
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OTHER:
Recognize An Outstanding Principal
The MetLife National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP),
National Principal of the Year program (online at
www.principals.org/awards/09-01.html) recognizes outstanding middle level
and high school principals who are successful in the following areas:
*Educational Leadership;
*Resolving Complex Problems; and
*Developing Self and Others.
Each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Department of
Defense Education Activity will select two State Principals of the Year,
one for middle level and one for high school. From these 104 state winners,
finalists will be selected and eligible to be named National Principals of
the Year. Each finalist will receive an award and a $2,500 grant. The
National Principals of the Year will receive an award and an additional
$7,500.
To apply, principals may nominate themselves, or colleagues, students, or
members of the community may nominate them. A candidate must be a principal
and a member of NASSP, including his or her affiliated state organization,
at the time of selection and throughout the year of his or her term.

The national winners (one high school and one middle school principal) are
chosen from the State Principal of the Year honorees. Applications must be
received at the state-affiliated association by close of business January
11, 2002. For an on-line application, go to
www.principals.org/awards/09-01.html.
NASSP, 1904 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1537, 703.860.0200 (voice),
703.860.3422 (fax), www.principals.org (web), webmaster@principals.org
(e-mail).
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WEBSITES:
In my travels the other day, I found "Multicultural Pavilion: Resources for
Educators, Students and Activists", created and maintained by Dr. Paul
Gorski at the University of Virginia. This comprehensive Website contains a
wealth of resources (articles, Web links, discussions, songs, list-serv,
etc.) related to multicultural education.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural

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Hilandia Rendon
EdEquity Moderator
EdEquity-admin@mail.edc.org



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