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Taylor, Carolyn Stanford – Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2022
For Wisconsin schools and districts, implementing an equitable multi-level system of supports means providing equitable services, practices, and resources to every learner based upon responsiveness to effective instruction and intervention. In this system, high quality instruction, strategic use of data, and collaboration interact within a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Quality, Intervention, Instruction
Taylor, Carolyn Stanford – Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2019
For Wisconsin schools and districts, implementing an equitable multi-level system of supports means providing equitable services, practices, and resources to every learner based upon responsiveness to effective instruction and intervention. In this system, high quality instruction, strategic use of data, and collaboration interact within a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Positive Behavior Supports, Equal Education, Educational Quality
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Wolf, Patrick J.; Witte, John F.; Fleming, David J. – Education Next, 2012
Critics of voucher programs often argue that private schools do exclude most disabled students, and the matter occasionally has been the subject of litigation. Yet accurate information on students with disabilities served by private schools is notable for its absence. According to the authors, in 2006, the State of Wisconsin authorized their…
Descriptors: Special Education, Public Schools, Educational Vouchers, Private Schools
Potemski, Amy – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
Across the United States, a wide cross-section of administrators and teachers are learning the ins and outs of setting, assessing, and scoring student learning objectives (SLOs). An SLO is a set of goals that measures an educator's progress in achieving student growth targets. SLOs are particularly helpful for teachers in nontested subjects and…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Standard Setting, Attendance, Student Mobility
O'Brien, John; O'Brien, Connie Lyle – 1999
This paper describes the role of the Supported Housing Specialist as developed by the Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. The paper is based on extensive interviews with Marcie Brost who developed and holds the position. This paper is intended to be used with a set of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Housing
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Gore-Felton, Cheryl; Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane; Weinhardt, Lance S.; Kelly, Jeffrey A.; Lightfoot, Marguerita; Kirshenbaum, Sheri B.; Johnson, Mallory O.; Chesney, Margaret A.; Catz, Sheryl L.; Ehrhardt, Anke A.; Remien, Robert H.; Morin, Stephen F. – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The NIMH Healthy Living Project (HLP), a randomized behavioral intervention trial for people living with HIV, enrolled 943 individuals, including women, heterosexual men, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. The intervention, which is based on qualitative formative research…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Individualized Programs, Anxiety
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Fiedler, Craig R.; Chiang, Bert; Van Haren, Barbara; Jorgensen, Jack; Halberg, Sara; Boreson, Lynn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
The overrepresentation of students with racial, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity (RCELD) in special education has been well documented for over 30 years. This phenomenon is known as "disproportionality." In an effort to address the disproportionate issue, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction funded a collaborative…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Change, Special Education
Whitesel, Russ; Kiel, Joyce L. – 1998
This staff brief is designed to help policymakers make recommendations for the improvement in educational and related services provided to visually impaired children and adults in the state by public school districts, the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped (WSVH), and other educational agencies. Part 1 provides a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Educational Trends
Wisconsin Family Assistance Center for Education, Training and Support, Inc., Milwaukee. – 2001
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of the Wisconsin FACETS program, a program that provides parent information and training services for underserved parents and caretakers of infants, toddlers, children, and young adults with disabilities who live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The goals of the program are provided, along with a…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Legislation