Your Newsletter for March 2021 |
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Running the Distance Scholarships
Deadline Approaching
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If you know a high school senior or a high school graduate seeking to pursue an academic, vocational, or nontraditional degree, they may be eligible for a $1000 Running the Distance Scholarship! The scholarship is offered to individuals who have been identified as having a learning challenge or adversity within the classroom in the area of literacy. |
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Application Deadline is April 1st, 2021
An official diagnosis of dyslexia not required
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Why?:
- To raise awareness for Dyslexia, and
- To raise funds for the Running The Distance Scholarship fund.
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You can join them and support their effort by donating to the scholarship fund through this secure link: |
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Are you worried about student writing skills impacted during this time of distance learning? This year's Spring Symposium will help by offering evidence-based, concrete, and targeted strategies for writing. Dr. Haynes will share structured, systematic teaching techniques that make use of the interplay between listening, speaking, and reading, so that struggling writers of any age can learn to write independently and effectively at the word, sentence, micro-discourse, and paragraph levels.
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.
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Structured Literacy Approaches to Teaching Written Expression |
For more information on Structured Literacy Approaches to Teaching Written Expression, check out this article from IDA's Perspectives written by Dr. Haynes, Susan Lambrecht Smith, and Leslie Laud.
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Oregon Dept. of Ed Seeking Reviewers |
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The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is seeking reviewers to read and evaluate applications from potential vendors received through a Request for Information (RFI) for dyslexia-related training opportunities.
Oregon’s dyslexia legislation, Senate Bill (SB) 1003, requires that the Department annually develop a list of training opportunities related to dyslexia and that the trainings on the list satisfy the following requirements:
- Comply with the knowledge and practice standards of an international organization on dyslexia;
- Enable the teacher to understand and recognize dyslexia; and
- Enable the teacher to implement instruction that is systematic, explicit, and evidence-based to meet the educational needs of students with dyslexia.
Application Deadline is March 28, 2021
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Learning Disabilities Association of America
Oregon Affiliation
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The Learning Disabilities Association of America is seeking interested parents, educators, school psychologists, and advocates to participate in an informational meeting about creating a state affiliate of the LDA in Oregon, on March 8th from 4:30 - 5:30 pm PT.
Participants of the meeting will learn about the benefits of establishing
an LDA state affiliate, discuss the process of creating an affiliate, and learn about the supports that LDA of America provides state affiliates.
If interested, please email Aaron Goldstein at agoldstein@ldaameric.org with an RSVP email to get the Zoom meeting link.
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Resha is the mother of two children with learning differences, including a son with Dyslexia. She is motivated by her family's journey and a lifelong passion for education reform to bring awareness to the intersectionality of race and literacy.
Resha has almost two decades of experience in charter school administration and non-profit management. She has served on school leadership teams and as a consultant for charter schools in Washington D.C. and New York City. She has an M.P.A. in non-profit administration from NYU, where she is now an M.S. candidate in speech-language pathology.
To see and hear Jared and Resha's conversation, click here!
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Dr. Irvin M Brown will present 'Navigating Sophisticated racism: Cradle to Career' during the opening session of the March to Literacy Summit. Hear his conversation with Jared Blank, recorded in December, 2020 on our YouTube channel
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IDA Oregon YouTube Channel |
Did you know that you can view the library of ALL past Running the Distance conversations on our Youtube Channel?
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IDA - Oregon Past President
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Oregon selected to be part of the initial cohort for the National Center on Accessible Education Materials |
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The National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning is a technical assistance center led by CAST and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The Center’s goal is to increase the availability and use of AEM and accessible technologies by individuals with disabilities in early learning, K-12, higher education, and workforce development settings.
We are excited to share that Oregon is one of seven states which has been selected to create a national AEM Cohort. With the Center’s expert assistance, each state in the AEM Cohort will develop a coordinated system for providing AEM and accessible technologies across the continuum of state educational services.
The next step is to identify three school districts that will agree to form and sustain a cross-functional district team to include, at minimum, representation from district administration, educational technology, assistive technology, special education instruction, general education instruction, and a parent or guardian of a student with a disability. At least one district must serve high-needs schools, including those in rural areas and/ or with a high percentage of students from low-income families or traditionally underserved populations.
To learn about the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, please visit: https://aem.cast.org/
The submission deadline is March 31, 2021.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day,
and as always .....
THANK YOU for all you do!
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