Dedication to Special Education

Plan to take a break from the kitchen on November 18th and treat yourself and your family by dining in or taking out from Gott's Roadside at Bon Air Center in Greenbrae anytime between 10am and 9pm when Gott's will be donating 20% of ALL sales to SchoolsRule-Marin, a coalition of Marin public school foundations, including Dedication to Special Education, working together to benefit every student countywide. Support local businesses while supporting Marin public schools!

Thank you SchoolsRule Marin, Dr. Tom Peters, and the Marin Community Foundation for all that you do!

The Marin County SELPA is hosting a workshop specifically for parents: Keep Talking! Narrative Development for Language and Social Learning Date and Time: December 7, 2020 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm... This workshop will provide information, tips, and sample visual supports to use with elementary through high school students, focus on how adults can mediate social learning and language successfully, review basic conversational choices, and examine how students can practice these skills using topics that are most interest to them. Registration required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keep-talking-narrative-develop

Congratulations Cindy Evans on being selected as a finalist for the 2021 California Teacher of the year! https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr20/yr20rel86.asp

Thank you SchoolsRule Marin and all your donors for supporting all students! We are so grateful!

Thank you for supporting public schools and all students!

Join Dr. Colleen Arnold & Matrix Parent Network on 11/9 from 3-5pm, for an informational presentation exploring Dr. Arnold's original research analyzing the ben...efits of 'scripting' (or delayed echolalia), among individuals with Autism and how to use that form of communication to connect with your child. Link to sign up: https://www.matrixparents.org//flipping-the-script-priori/

Novato special education teacher gets top county honor - congratulations Cindy Evans! https://www.marinij.com//novato-special-education-teacher/

PAASS is hosting a Halloween themed Friday Virtual Dance Party: 5:30pm to 6:30pm- Friday October 23 , 2020

The Marin County SELPA presents: I've Got a Feeling: Raising Comfort Levels Working with Emotions Date and Time: October 26, 2020 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm... This workshop will building an understanding of emotional development in students with social learning challenges, explore visual supports to facilitate work on feelings, and provide specific suggestions to expanding emotional vocabulary and teaching about social relationships. Registration required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ive-got-a-feeling-raising-comf

Star Academy is hosting a series of speaker forums. See info below and join if you can! Star Academy speaker series Friday, October 9, 9-10:30am The Perils of Puberty... We’re thrilled to have Erica back with us - ZOOMing from Spain! Puberty isn’t easy for anyone but it presents extra unique challenges for our children who have learning differences. Erica is returning to Star with her frank and open style to help guide parents through this time in their children’s lives. RSVP: HERE 2 Tuesday, October 20, 9-10am The Fitness-Motivation Link Nicole Ezcurra, one of Star’s Speech-Language Pathologists, addresses the crucial link between fitness and motivation for students with learning differences. She will also demonstrate how to incorporate the social and emotional component of team sports and activities. RSVP HERE Tuesday, November 17, 6:30-8pm, Disabilities, Diagnoses, and Labels Giving our kids a voice. Star welcomes back Jennifer Taylor. Raising resilient children who know how to advocate for themselves and function in a world that was not created for their unique way of seeing it can create anxiety for us and for them. Parents have a responsibility to provide a safe space to discuss diagnosis and labels in an authentic way. This workshop will provide a framework, specific talking points and methods to best have these conversations. RSVP HERE https://staracademy.myschoolapp.com/page/event-detail

The Marin County SELPA is hosting a series of workshops specifically for parents. The Power of Play in a High Tech World Date and Time: August 31, 2020 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm... This workshop will provide clinically relevant activities and strategies to create functional learning opportunities that promote cognitive, physical, social emotional and language development in the natural environment. Registration required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-play-in-a-high-te

Join the Conversation! MCOE 2020/2021 School Year I Special Education Parent Q & A These sessions will give parents a chance to hear updates from MCOE administration regarding programming and health orders. It will also be an opportunity for Q & A. Session 1: August 17th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM... You may send questions in advance to: [email protected] Register at https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_1ZU2mFG8RDqX2Wv0vHIlDw See more