Friday19Apr 2019

DisAbility Summit

Thompson Policy Institute

Friday, April 19, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST
2019-04-19 09:00 2019-04-19 12:00 America/Los_Angeles DisAbility Summit Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/61802 MUSCO CENTER MAIN STAGE Musco Center for the Arts Main Stage Margie McCoy tpi@chapman.edu

Free to attend

Event is free but please register at the REGISTER HERE button below to the right

MUSCO CENTER MAIN STAGE

Musco Center for the Arts Main Stage

General Public

Everyone is welcome to attend

Featuring Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Richard A. Villa

Advocating for Inclusive Education:  What can one person do?

Bayridge Consortium, Inc.

Dr. Richard A. Villa is President of Bayridge Consortium, Inc.  His primary field of expertise is the development of administrative and instructional support systems for educating all students within general education settings.  Dr. Villa is recognized as an educational leader who motivates and works collaboratively with others to implement current and emerging exemplary educational practices.  In the school districts where he has worked and consulted, his efforts have resulted in the inclusion of children with intensive cognitive, physical, and emotional challenges as full members of the general education community.  Dr. Villa has been a classroom teacher, special education administrator, pupil personnel services director, and director of instructional services, and has authored 25 books and more than 100 articles and chapters.  Known for his enthusiastic, humorous style, Dr. Villa has presented at international, national, and state educational conferences and has provided technical assistance to departments of education in the United States, Canada, Vietnam, and Honduras and to university personnel, public school systems, and parent and advocacy organizations. 

Continental Breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m.

The Summit will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m.

Welcome

Dr. Margaret Grogan, Dean of the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies


Opening Remarks

 Dr. Don Cardinal

Excellence in Disability Award 

Keynote Address

Advocating for Inclusive Education: What can one person do?

Dr. Richard A. Villa

A Short Intermission


Research Presentation

The State of Inclusion and Exclusion of Students with Disabilities in California School Districts

Dr. Meghan Cosier, Dr. Don Cardinal, Dr. Audri Gomez,


Inclusion in Action

How do we do this?  Strategies and structures to educate each, every, and all

Dr. Jessica Tunney 

Research Presentation

Making STEM Education Inclusive: Opening Doors to Engage Girls and Women with Disabilities

 Dr. Amy Jane Griffiths and Dr. Angel Miles Nash


Closing Remarks

 

You can contact the event organizer, Margie McCoy at tpi@chapman.edu or (714) 997-6692.

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