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Dr. Marilyn Friend
Marilyn Friend, Ph.D., has spent her career as a general education teacher, special education teacher, teacher educator, and staff developer. She is Professor Emerita of Education in the Department of Specialized Education Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and she is Past President of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of children and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
Dr. Friend has consulted with school professionals nationally and internationally (more than 3000 presentations and projects in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia) as they collaborate to educate their students, assisting them to form productive and efficient work teams, to learn the best ways to manage awkward or adversarial conversations, and to communicate effectively with parents
Her particular areas of interest include skills for collaboration, co-teaching, inclusive school practices, team building, shared problem solving, interpersonal communication, conflict and controversy, and home-school communication. She is the author or co-author of three widely used college textbooks on special education: a variety of co-teaching materials for teachers and administrators; more than 50 articles about collaboration, inclusive practices, and co-teaching; and a highly popular video series on co-teaching and other inclusive practices
Dr. Rhonda Bondie is an assistant professor of special education at Fordham University in New York City. She began her teaching career as an artist-in-residence and then became a special education teacher. She enjoyed over twenty years as both a teacher and administrator in K-12 urban public schools.Rhonda has been a faculty member at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero Classroom for many years, where she has developed expertise in teaching for understanding, making thinking visible, and using protocols to build collaborative learning cultures. Rhonda’s innovative learning strategies have been published in books such as, Making Thinking Visible and Igniting Creativity in Gifted Learners , K-6: Strategies for Every Teacher and on websites such as the National History Education Clearinghouse.
Michelle Lockwood, M.S., NJCIE’s Director of Positive Behavior Support Services, has over 17 years of professional experience working with students and individuals in need of behavioral support in public and private facilities. Prior to moving to New Jersey and joining the staff of NJCIE in 2007, Michelle was a Behavior Specialist and Inclusion Facilitator for the Howard County Public School System in Maryland. At present, she is working in multiple districts throughout New Jersey, providing professional development and support to school staff in developing school-wide, classroom, and individual student positive behavior support systems. Michelle also presents workshops to parent groups and facilitates the development of behavior intervention plans for individual students (elementary and secondary) based upon Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs).
Maintaining an Inclusive Setting: Delving into the IEP and the Least Restrictive Environment Portion
Using a Flipped Classroom to provide Special Education and Related Services in an Inclusion Model
“People in Motion” Creating authentic inclusive (non- therapeutic) recreational movement opportunities for your child
Inclusion and the Co-Teaching Classroom: Partnership for Student Success
Community Building for Differentiated Strategies
Successfully Transitioning to a Response to Intervention Framework in NJ
When the World Loses Hope: How Can Teachers Help Students to Keep Pushing Forward?
Easy Individualized Reading Instruction for Struggling Readers
Disabling Oppression in K-12 Curricula: Teaching students to recognize ableism in popular culture
From an I&RS Team to a Problem-Solving Team
Developing Emotional Regulation and Problem Solving Skills in Youth: Social Decision Making Skills an Evidence-Based Model
Best Practices in Developing and Implementing Inclusion Programs in the Public Schools
Project Lead; Training and Consultation Specialist, Person Centered Approaches in Schools and Transition (PCAST), Respectively
New Jersey Tiered Systems of Support (NJTSS)
The development of the Increasing Access to College Project at Montclair State University
Co-teaching Math within A Response to Intervention Framework
Co-teaching Writing in a Data Driven Classroom
Adapting your technology classes to a student with a visual impairment
Pre-school transformation
Strategizing Success for Secondary Co-Teaching
Beyond Rewards and Consequences: Class-Wide Applications of Positive Behavior Support for ALL Students
Been There, Done That, Now What? Developing Behavior Interventions for Students After Class-Wide Ideas Have Failed
Using Google Apps for Education for Universal Design
The Best Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Extensions and Add-Ons for Universal Design
Pricing Information:
Early Bird Rates until March 1st, 2017:
ONE DAY RATE $115.00
TWO DAY RATE $225.00
After March 1st, 2017:
ONE DAY RATE $150.00
TWO DAY RATE $255.00
*Groups of 10 plus, please contact us
*Parents, self-advocate, and student rate is $100 per day; scholarship and volunteer opportunities are available (we can always use volunteers to help run the conference
Address: NJCIE, 60 Park Place, Suite 601 Newark, NJ 07102
Email: njcie@njcie.org
Fax: 732-390-7696
