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September 29, 2016, Meeting Agenda

Dyslexia Guidelines Work Group Agenda - September 2016.

California Department of Education’s
DYSLEXIA GUIDELINES WORK GROUP
Meeting at the California Department of Health Services
1500 Capitol Avenue, Training Room A
Sacramento, California

AGENDA
Thursday, September 29, 2016

9:00–9:30 a.m. Registration

9:30–9:40 a.m. Welcome and group introductions

9:40–10:10 a.m. Overview of today’s Dyslexia Guidelines Work Group meeting

  • Today’s objectives and outcomes
  • Today’s agenda and meeting packet
  • Current status of project

10:10–10:45 a.m. Breakout Session: Review of the section on assessment

  • What essential assessment practices need to be added?
  • Are there redundancies in the existing text?
  • Which key resources should we provide links to?

15-Minute Break

11:00–11:30 a.m. Report out on review of the section on assessment

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

12:30–1:30 p.m. Orthographic Processing, Phonological Processing, Structured Literacy, and Phonics: What are they? How do they differ? How are they related to dyslexia?

Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D. International Dyslexia Association

1:30–2:30 p.m. Breakout Session: Review of the section on teaching strategies and remediation for students with dyslexia

  • Which essential concepts need to be added?
  • Which essential strategies should we add and for which grades?
  • Which key resources should we provide links to?

15-Minute Break

2:45–3:30p.m. Report out on review of the section on teaching strategies and remediation for students with dyslexia

3:30–4:00 p.m. Next steps

  • Who is continuing to work on which sections? Make further comments?
  • Review of next meeting dates
  • Content analysis of comments received through Dyslexia@cde.ca.gov

Please leave your table tents on the table when you leave. Thank you!

Questions:   Theresa Costa Johansen | Dyslexia@cde.ca.gov | 916-445-4891
Last Reviewed: Monday, September 9, 2024
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