WHOLE SCHOOLING
Changing the World One School at a Time!

Portland, Oregon May 11 -13, 2006

PRESENTERS

Michael T. Bailey has two daughters, 15 and 18, one daughter with a developmental disability and one without. Michael is the immediate Past President of the Oregon Advocacy Center and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Disability Rights Network, Washington, DC. He is the founder and co-chair of Oregon ADAPT. Michael is the author of “SPECIAL EDUCATION: A Parents Guide to a Child’s Success” now available from on-line book dealers. Available in book stores in June. He is a contributing author “You Will Dream New Dreams,” edited by Stan Klein. Michael has been the Oregon Coordinator of Partners in Policy Making for 10 years. Michael is the editor of The Oregon Clarion Newspaper, and has been for 4 years. He is the founder and editor of The People First Connection. He has been a contributor to disability publicationsMainstream, Mouth, Disability Rag, Incitement and others. Michael has been a presenter at local, national and international conferences. Also: Former Commissioner, Oregon Disability Commission Former member State Advisory Council on Special Education; Former member State Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention. Member, Citizens Budget Advisory Committee, Portland Public Schools.

Donna Beegle, Ed.D. is currently President of Communication Across Barriers, a consulting firm devoted to improving relationships and opportunities. Her research with people from three generations of poverty, " After growing up in generational poverty, leaving school for marriage at 15, having two children and continuing to cope with poverty, she found herself, at 25, with no husband, little education, and no job skills. What followed in 10 short years were: self confidence, a G.E.D., an A.A., a B.A. (with honors), a Master's Degree in Communication with a minor in Gender Studies (with honors), and completion of a Doctorate Degree.Donna completed her Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Portland State University in 2000, where she taught speech communication courses for six years. Her Doctoral research focused on students from generational poverty who had completed Bachelor's degrees. She worked for five years with Portland State University on a Federal Endangered Urban Youth Grant developing projects to increase graduation rates for students from poverty backgrounds. Donna has also worked to develop training materials and curriculum for Oregon State Correctional Institutions.

Johnell Bell serves as Co-Chair for the School Age Council and is a Junior at Portland State University where he is pursuing a degree in Political Science and Business Administration. As a K-12 fellow at the Center for Academic Excellence at Portland State University, Johnell is in the process of co-founding a new organization, and recently received a grant to study participation of African-American parents in schools. Until recently, Johnell served as Co-Director of the Youth Innovation Fund of Portland, a service-learning and youth philanthropic initiative. During his senior year in high school, Johnell was elected as Student Representative to the Portland Public School Board of Education where he was the first African American to represent the district's entire student population.

Jill Bryant, Teacher Educator; Willamette University, Salem, Oregon 97301. Phone: 503-370-6992. Jill Bryant is an Associate Professor of Education at Willamette University. Her teaching and research interests include the role of action research on reflective practice, teacher transformation through effective mentoring, and how to support teacher advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.

Molina Chavez, Counselor, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Billie Jo Clausen of Sandy, Oregon, is an early childhood specialist who teaches an integrated preschool classroom at Shaver Elementary School, Parkrose School District, Portland, Oregon each morning, and provides supports to babies and their families who qualify for special education service each afternoon for Multnomah Early Childhood Program. She believes in inclusive homes, schools and communities and the power of positive supports via teaming. Michael and Billie Jo are advocates for practical supports to benefit all members of each family, classroom or student body as they have 6 children of their own and know that if it's not practical, it's not useful!!

Vicki Cooke– Outreach Coordinator, Curriculum Coordinator Scott Robertson School. Vicki.cooke@epsb.ab.ca 780-475-3565

Stephen Daniels, Sixth Grade SS/LA Teacher; Keizer, Oregon.420 Flying Squirrel Way #107, Salem, OR 97304. Phone: 503-399-3224. Stephen Daniels received his MAT from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 2005. Stephen is now in his first year of teaching 6th grade at Whiteaker Middle School in Keizer, Oregon. He is a homeroom teacher and teaches Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, and Health. Stephen’s research and teaching interests include social justice, gender issues within the classroom, white privilege, and the effects of socio economic status on children in schools.

Michael Delaney, M.S., M.S., Sandy, Oregon, believes in and supports children with the most extreme behavior challenges and the entire spectrum of special education labels. Michael shares strategies, skills and resources daily as behavior consultant for Multnomah Education Service District, Portland, Oregon, serving 8 local school districts. Inclusive homes, schools and communities for all children through positive supports and team efforts has been his quest for many years, especially those children who express themselves through behavior challenges. Michael has spoken, provided technical assistance and support in many states to a wide variety of audiences (educators, parents, family members and interested others). He has long been part of the National Project for Positive Behavior Supports, along with his wife, Billie Jo.

Baylor Del Rosario, University of New Mexico Graduate Assistant. Division of Educational Specialities, College of Education
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

Randi Douglas, Ph.D. Program Advisor , Volunteer Leadership Center , Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. With the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory since 1999, Rändi is a national trainer and program/evaluation consultant, designing and delivering adult training in team management, training literacy tutors, planning educational programs, partnership strategies, and program development/management. She also participates in education program evaluations (arts-in-education/after school programs/Reading First), and is team lead in product development of books, videos, newsletters, and training design. Her first career was as a theatre professional - acting, directing, and playwriting. MA, English, State University of NY at Buffalo; MFA, Theatre Arts, Stanford University.

Raelene Finlayson, Outreach Coordinator, Assistant Principal Scott Robertson School. 780-475-3565

Doug Fisher, Ph.D., San Diego State University, is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and the Director of Professional Development for the City Heights Educational Collaborative. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association Celebrate Literacy Award as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books, such as Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work and Responsive Curriculum Design in Secondary Schools: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Students. He has taught a variety of courses in SDSU’s teacher-credentialing program as well as graduate-level courses on English language development and literacy. He has also taught classes in English, writing, and literacy development to secondary school students.

Alicia Flores-Gallegos, 7th Grade Assistant Academy Director, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rich Gibson of San Diego State now studies three related questions of pedagogy and social practice: (1) in societies increasingly regimented by demands for low cost productivity and perpetual war, how can we as teachers keep our ideals and still teach? (2) When oppression in schools and out is so abundantly obvious, and when it is clear that out of school oppression is related to in school oppression, why is it that servitude remains mainly voluntary? (3) Since a century of revolutionary change, much of it focused on changing minds following mass sacrifices during upheavals, clearly failed, what is it that we all need to know, and how do we need to come to know it, in order to lead reasonably free, creative, caring, connected lives?

Janice Gratton is Chair of Multnomah County Commission on Children, Families & Community’s (CCFC) Early Childhood Council and is especially interested in social-emotional development. Janice is also an elected member of the Multnomah Education Service District. She received a Masters' degree from Lewis & Clark College. Janice is retired from the Multnomah County Mental Health Division where she worked for 20 years in a variety of capacities, including serving as interim Division Director.

Brian Hendrix, 7th Grade Academy Director, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Chris Horrocks. Chris is currently working in three professional areas. He is first and foremost a learning support teacher at Halls Prairie Elementary School in Surrey British Columbia three days a week. He is also a half time faculty member at Douglas College in New Westminster where he instructs and supervises practicum in the Faculty of Community,Family and Child Studies. He is also a sessional instructor at the University of British Columbia teaching and designing course work in the area of teaching to diversity, inclusion support for students who live with severe disabilities and sociological aspects of disability culture.

Richard Laszlo is a Doctoral student at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC – Curriculum Theory and Implementation program, Dept. of Education. His area of interest is around questions about authentic inclusion. By authentic inclusion, he means classrooms and schools where students with different learning styles and needs are not simply present in the name of mainstreaming, but their chances to benefit from the learning opportunities and socialization with their peers are maximized. He works in the Vancouver school district, supporting students with special needs in schools.

Wendy Lebow, Director, Commission on Children, Families and Community (CCFC) of Multnomah County, has a Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW). 421 SW Oak St, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97204 (503) 988-6981 988-5538 FAX She has been Director of CCFC for almost 3 years. She worked at the County for 14 years, first in anti-poverty Community Action planning and evaluation and later in early childhood coordination and issues. She has been involved in the development, and now the implementation, of all three of the policy frameworks.

Cris Mancuso, Positive Behavior Supports Coordinator, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jillian McCarthy, master's student, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. (319)273-3291. Jillian is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Inclusive Early Childhood Literate Community Project under the direction of Dr. Kliewer and Dr. Kasa-Hendrickson. After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, she returned to UNI to pursue a Master's in Special Education. Her research interests include supporting students with complex communication needs in an inclusive setting.

Joanne McNamara. Joanne is the Parent Education Coordinator with Multnomah County Library's Early Childhood Resources Outreach Department. In her outreach work she has shared the library's message about early language and literacy development with hundreds of parents of young children through the Born to Read and Early Words programs. In an effort to reach parents who may not be visiting the library or reading with their children, Joanne goes to meet them at a variety of social service agencies such as domestic violence shelters, transitional housing sites, drug and alcohol treatment centers, teen parent classes and the County Jail. Her background in early childhood and parent education includes several years of teaching and home-visiting with Parent Child Services and Early Head Start.

Marilyn Miller is Vice-Chair of the CCFC’s Poverty Advisory Committee and a CCFC Board member. Marilyn is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Portland State University Institute for Nonprofit Management, and was Executive Director for 18 years of Portland Impact, a nonprofit, anti-poverty agency.

Kate Houston Mitchoff. Kate, School Corps Librarian at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, is the creator and manager of the library's internationally used Homework Center Web reference collection (see http://www.multcolib.org/homework/) and is currently chair of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for the Association of Library Services for Children, American Library Association.

Sigamoney Naicker has worked as a school teacher, faculty member at University of Western Cape, Head of Learning Support in Provincial Government, Director of Inclusive Education in National Government, and, presently, as Chief Director, Education Planning of Western Cape, South Africa. He has his doctorate in Education and numerous publications on inclusive education, the latest being Inclusive Education in South Africa: An Emerging pedagogy of possibility (chapter in a book titled International Paradigms published by Routledge Falmer: London).

Charlie Naylor, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, VanCouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Michael Peterson as been Professor in the College of Education, Teacher Education at Wayne State University since 1994 where he teaches courses related to inclusive teaching and transition from school to adult life. From 1988 to 1994 he directed the Developmental Disabilities Institute and co-directed the Michigan Inclusive Education Project. Michael co-founded and directs the Whole Schooling Consortium, an international network of educators, university faculty, parents, and schools devoted to using the Six Principles of Whole Schooling to improve schools. He has published some 80 articles and monographs including, in 2003, Inclusive teaching: Creating effective schools for all learners, published by Allyn and Bacon. He has been married 37 years, has two children and two grandchildren, Rachel Ellen and Shannon Noel.

Lolenzo T. Poe, Jr., is Director of Multnomah County’s Department of School & Community Partnerships (DSCP). He manages programs and services aimed at individuals, children and families in partnership with public schools, local and state governments, businesses, non-profit service providers, foundations and community members. His school services alignment team recently has been focused on implementing the SUN Service System, the delivery system established by the County’s School-Age Policy Framework. Prior to his current position, Mr. Poe served eight years as Director of Multnomah County’s Community & Family Services Department. 421 SW Oak Street Suite 200, Portland, OR 97204. 503-988-6295.

Jeff Rose. Principal: Russell Academy of Academic Achievement. 2700 NE 127th Ave, Portland, OR 97230-1617 (503) 408-2750.

Renee Salazar-Garcia, Assistant Principal, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Baylor Del Rosario, University of New Mexico Graduate Assistant, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Renee Salazar-Garcia, Assistant Principal, John Adams Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Janet Sauer, doctoral candidate, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. Office: (319)273-3291 H: (563)856-2015. Janet is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Inclusive Early Childhood Literate Community Project under the direction of Dr. Kliewer and Dr. Kasa-Hendrickson. She earned her Master Degree in Education from Ohio University where she studied inclusive education for students with more significant disabilities. She is presently on leave from teaching at Clarke College in Dubuque to pursue her doctorate in Special Education at the University of Northern Iowa.

Mike Taylor is Superintendent of Parkrose Public Schools, Portland, Oregon. Mike has a story of being raised in a home where disabilities were the norm and “inclusion” and “exclusion” where the standard at the same time. Mike has been in education for more then 30 years as classroom teacher, councilor, vice principal, High School Principal, Superintendent and Adjunct Instructor in the Graduate School of Education at Concordia University. . He is current the Superintendent of Parkrose School district in North Each Portland. During this time he has been worked in the High School and middle school and been an advocate for all students having developed and nurtured several alternative and inclusive school programs. He was High School Principal as the school transitioned to a 100% inclusive school and served as a model of how to fully include all students in the High School experience. As a Superintendent he has championed system wide reform to make all school include all kids.