Department of Education Funds PULSE Program to Train California Teachers in Special Education

Claremont Graduate University accustomed a new four-year $800,000 admission from the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to abutment CGU’s recently-accredited CCTC appropriate apprenticeship internship affairs to adapt agents for acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities.

The PULSE Pipeline Project: Phase Two (Preparing Urban Leaders in Special Education) is led by Project Director Susan M. Robb, assistant of apprenticeship in the School of Educational Studies, who guided the antecedent PULSE Phase One 2004-2008. Phase One, which concludes its allotment in September, targeted “Teachers of High Incidence Disabilities,” acknowledging over 90 intern agents against abounding Mild/Moderate Special Education accreditation over the endure four years.

PULSE: Two will abode activity participants as moderate/severe intern agents in schools in the culturally and linguistically assorted Los Angeles basin and the Inland Empire (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties). This activity accurately recruits and supports individuals from this close burghal area, CGU’s prime account region. Project elements cover concentrated application efforts for those from historically under-represented groups to advice advance the accumulation of appropriate apprenticeship casework to acceptance with abstinent to astringent disabilities. According to accompaniment data, the acceptance of these acceptance has added by 22% in California over the endure 5 years.

How the affairs works: Project participants will be academy graduates who crop coursework arch to the California State Credential for Education Specialist-Level I and Level II: Moderate/Severe, an English Learner California Authorization, and a Master’s in Education. After antecedent pre-service fieldwork and advance instruction, participants advise with an intern credential with acute acreage abutment (meeting highly-qualified requirements), afore acceptable absolutely active in appropriate apprenticeship in predominately diverse, burghal elementary and accessory schools.

CGU monitors and advises accountable amount acquiescence for anniversary applicant and anniversary teaching position. Partnerships with the administrators and appropriate educators in 10 districts accept been developed to agreement adapted teaching placements, ensuring maximally admiring placements and opportunities for activated analysis and connected learning.
Background on the Project

In 2006-2007, the Department of Education abstracts adumbrated that added than 679,600 acceptance with disabilities lived and abstruse in California with an estimated 110,314 acceptance with abstinent or astringent disabilities defective to be accumbent with the new teaching standards appropriate by No Child Left Behind. Since 2002, there has been a basal access (.06%) in absolute amount of K-12 appropriate apprenticeship acceptance in California. However, during that aforementioned time, acceptance with abstinent or astringent disabilities (autism, affecting or behavioral disorders, bookish disabilities) added from 90,512 acceptance to 110,314 students, a 22% increase.

In addition, The Center for Teaching and Learning, a nation apprenticeship analysis group, letters that high-minority schools accept an boilerplate of 18% under-prepared appropriate apprenticeship agents if compared to 7% in low boyhood schools. California ranks accomplished in accompaniment citizenry assortment and is three times added assorted than the civic average.

What makes PULSE: Two so important is that the charge for fully-qualified appropriate apprenticeship agents in the LA Basin and the abutting Inland Empire is even added adroit than it is either nationally or above added regions of CA. Twenty-five percent of the state’s appropriate apprenticeship acceptance apprentice in one of the 64 academy districts area CGU has intern partnerships. Eleven of the districts in this arena are a allotment of the 40 better academy districts in the accompaniment (CDE, 2007). The CGU campus is amid strategically in this region, “straddling” both the LA Basin and the Inland Empire. It is estimated that bourgeois appraisal of the amount of agents bare annually for M/S placements in the CGU across would be 23% of canton charge totals or 322 agents in the three canton CGU account region.

PULSE: Two targets the afterward objectives

• Recruit above cadre from under-represented groups to serve the assorted cultural and linguistic needs of acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities;
• Prepare 66 high-quality appropriate apprenticeship agents application a standards-based curricula and evidence-based apprenticeship inclusively with accepted apprenticeship candidates;
• Instill participants with amount competencies in appropriate apprenticeship that absorb attempt of amusing amends and accountability, ensuring accountable amount concentrations all-important for acquiescence with NCLB and IDEA ’04 and the alertness of high-quality teachers;
• Integrate able coursework for K-12 acceptance who accept different culture, linguistic, and assorted exceptionalities (CLDE accomplishment competencies) so interns acquire an EL Authorization and can axle culturally assorted acceptance with moderate/severe disabilities in across-the-board settings;
• Provide optimum abutment for alpha appropriate educators through a proven, awful able internship archetypal advised afterwards aboriginal PULSE One Project; and
• Create an institutionalized activity of moderate/severe appropriate apprenticeship administration cadre for the CGU appropriate apprenticeship doctoral program.
Project outcomes will include

• 66 activity graduates who accept completed their Level I Credential, EL Authorization, and Master’s amount requirements acknowledging with NCLB and IDEA requirements and competencies;
• 45 of the 66 activity graduates will aswell complete the added Level II credential requirements during the project;
• application of baddest participants to accompany a PhD in appropriate apprenticeship at CGU, architecture a abiding activity ladder for administration in the across of moderate/severe disabilities
• account appellation of over 65% annually for apprentice support; and
• the institutionalization of the Moderate/Severe Education Specialist Internship Program, a anatomy to credential 15 candidates annually, targeting some 50% whom are from under-represented groups.

About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top alum schools in the country. Our nine bookish schools conduct leading-edge analysis and accolade masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor calmly defined, assorted adroitness and acceptance analysis and abstraction above the acceptable conduct boundaries to actualize new and applied solutions for the above problems afflictive our world. An absolute academy adherent absolutely to alum analysis and study, Claremont Graduate University is the top alum academy in Southern California.

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