Your Newsletter for February 2021
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From Talking to Writing:
Word and Sentence-Level Strategies that Support Narrative and Expository Writing
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Charles Haynes, Professor at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, will be this year's
Annual Spring Symposium Speaker!
This online interactive presentation will lead educators through supporting all learners with vocabulary and writing skills. Engaging, hands-on self-regulation strategies that tap semantic feature analysis to expand vocabulary and sentence skills will be described. These techniques leverage listening, speaking, reading, and writing modalities, helpful for all learners but essential for those with language-based learning difficulties. The importance of these strategies for micro-discourse and discourse-level tasks are described and will be elaborated on during the day and an outline of a developmentally based instructional sequence of sentence patterns will be provided.
You Will:
- Learn evidence based writing strategies you can use with your students the next day!
- Increase your own knowledge of writing strategies
- Teach ALL students to write including struggling writers
- Learn word, sentence,(micro-discourse) and text level techniques
PLUS, all who register by March 1st will be eligible for a chance to win prizes:
- Heirloom Roses
- Oregon Dyslexia Institute
- Running The Distance by Jared S. Blank
- How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene
- and more!
PDUs/Washington Clock Hours/OSHA approved
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If you're a high school senior on track to graduate or high school graduate seeking to pursue an academic, vocational, or nontraditional degree, and have been identified as having a learning challenge or adversity within the classroom in the areas of reading, writing, and/or spelling (official diagnosis of dyslexia not required), you may be eligible for a $1000 Running the Distance Scholarship!
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2020 IDA-Oregon Annual Report
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In the midst of all the challenges we have faced in the past year, ordinary individuals in our community have set aside their worries, doubts, and apprehensions to do something quite extraordinary: they advocated for empowerment, equity, and literacy, three of the most important pillars of a healthy nation.
We invite you to take a look at our Annual Report.
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See what we are building. Notice the ripples of transformation that knowledge and empowerment make possible.
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Thank You for being a part of something extraordinary!
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Oregon Dyslexia Professional Network
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ODPN inaugural meeting
14 of us met via Zoom for our inaugural Dyslexia Professional Network meeting last month. The hour slipped by with introductions and thoughtful, supportive conversations with a dynamic group of individuals.
Facilitators, Jesse and Jared, look forward to you joining them at thier next meeting.
Adults 18 or older, we invite you to come and meet fellow adults with dyslexia and talk about the trials and tribulations that come along with our beautiful dyslexic lives.
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DiOnica wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until she was a junior in high school. What was her learning journey to that point like? How did a diagnosis of dyslexia change the trajectory of her future journey?
DiOnica will tell us how, after successfully graduating high school, she would go on to college to major in human development, and will also tell us about her current work at a youth shelter.
Join the conversation with DiOnica and Jared Blank on Instagram Live
Monday, February 15th at 7 pm (PST), @DyslexiaYouAreNotAlone or @jaredsblank
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IDA - Oregon Branch
President
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High School Senior &
Self Advocate!
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Cricket player &
Magician
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Did you know that you can view the library of ALL past Running the Distance conversations on our Youtube Channel?
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A Conversation About Instructional Equity with Zaretta Hammond
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"People talk about equity as if it had just one dimension, in an either-or way: it’s this, or it’s that. In reality, equity is a multifaceted and complex issue... When people define equity as if it had only one dimension, it’s akin to the parable of the six blind men describing an elephant. As each man describes the one part of the animal that he is touching—a tail, an ear, a trunk, a leg, and so on—each arrives at a significantly different description of what an elephant is. Each man is accurately describing the part he’s touching, and yet each description on its own is incomplete and even misleading. To make progress in educational equity, we need leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders to understand the different aspects of equity and how, when put together, they create more equitable outcomes for children."
Multicultural Education, Social Justice Education, and Culturally Responsive Education are terms that are often used interchangeably, but it's important to realize that there are important distinctions between the terms.
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It is with great sadness that we share with you the news of the passing of Karen Leopold.
Karen represented our IDA - Oregon branch as the Northwest regional representative to the IDA National Branch Council.
The Leopold family would love to hear your stories and memories of their dear wife, mother, and grandmother, who passed away unexpectedly on Monday, February 1st.
Karen was incredibly patient and loving, and she dedicated her life to her family and to dyslexia awareness and education. She touched so many lives, and her family would truly appreciate having all of these memories and messages in one place to comfort them at this time.
Please use the following link to share your thoughts, videos, and photos.
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From all of us at IDA-Oregon,
Happy St. Valentine's Day, and
THANK YOU for all you do!
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