Welcome to the official website for the 2024 TASH Conference!
Each year, the TASH Conference brings together our constituents to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The Conference is attended by passionate leaders, experts, and advocates from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees are influential in their fields and communities, and play an important role in the provision of services and supports for individuals and organizations around the world; and include professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; self-advocates, adult service providers; students, family members, and many others. This year’s conference theme is Celebrate Together: Let the Good Times Roll!
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This session will highlight the quality indicators of school and district leadership that promote and sustain inclusive schools. Participants will explore these indicators: 1) Communicate a Vision 2) Distributive Leadership among Team Members 3) Model and Plan for Collaboration/Co-Teaching 4) Use Data to Develop and Implement a Strategic Plan 5) Model and Encourage Inclusive Language and Practices An interactive process will be used to engage with each indicator using scenarios and examples from the experiences of leaders in districts and schools across the country. These scenarios will serve as the foundation for discussion, assessing readiness, and action planning toward realizing the full and meaningful inclusion of learners with disabilities in general education within their neighborhood schools. Participants will leave with an understanding of each indicator as well as a plan for implementation in their respective district and/or school.
Professional Learning Coordinator, Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education
Brittni joined MCIE in 2023 as a Professional Learning Coordinator after over 20 years in education with Calvert County Public Schools (CCPS). She has served as a Special Educator, Assistant Principal, Inclusive Education Facilitator, and Supervisor of Instructional Performance. Throughout... Read More →
Thursday December 5, 2024 9:00am - 11:30am CST
3RD Floor - Ballroom: Celestin GHyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113
According to Everett Rogers “Diffusion of Innovations†we know that adults will not all implement change at the same time and in the same way. Instead of feeling frustrated or defeated by this fact, this session is designed to support leaders to plan for the variability of adults through applying and explicitly modeling the Universal Design for Learning. Participants will learn, network, and plan universally designed communication plans, universally design adult learning, and ensuring adults in their systems have multiple entry points for engaging improving and increasing inclusionary practices.
While there is lots of research on the experiences and outcomes of people with disabilities, findings are not often shared in ways that are accessible and supportive of advocacy efforts. Advocacy methods that include quality data are often highly effective in steering the changes advocates hope to see; however, community engagement with disability data, including the collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data, is usually minimal. This can result in a disconnect between what researchers and policymakers feel is important to advocates and what advocates feel is important for their community. This session will feature an overview of existing efforts related to collecting and strengthening disability data and how these efforts are currently supporting advocacy. Then, we will have a rousing discussion with attendees about the most critical ways to enhance engagement with the disability community to support use of disability data in local, state, and national advocacy,
