2021 Workshop Talk | 59:43 | All Grade Levels, Academics & Curriculum, Student Products & Services
Summary
Student support exists to assist teachers and parents of students with special needs/considerations by providing the support and intervention necessary for classroom success. The audience will see two examples of schools that are in vastly different places financially, facility wise, and in student population. Practical next steps for schools considering this as an option will be explored.
Speaker
Lindsey Rose is the student support director and lead seventh-grade teacher at Jonathan Edwards Classical Academy (JECA) in Nashville, TN. After obtaining her BS in elementary education, she spent several years teaching in the Virginia Public School System, rounding out her time there as a reading intervention teacher. Her involvement in classical education began in 2014, whereupon she quickly developed a passion for helping all K–12 students flourish in and benefit from the classical Christian model. This passion compelled her to start JECA’s student support department in the fall of 2020. Her team focuses on assisting teachers and parents of students with special needs and considerations by providing the support and intervention necessary for classroom success. Lindsey lives in Greenbrier, TN, with her husband Josh and their three daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys coaching JECA’s high school volleyball team, camping on long weekends, reading good books, and scouring Nashville for the best local coffee shops.
Hallie Williams is the director of student support at Covenant Classical School in Fort Worth, Texas. Since 2016, she has helped Covenant build and refine their student support department. Together with her student support coordinator, Anna Nave, they seek to meet the needs of a growing population of diverse learners by developing and implementing student support plans tailored to each individual student’s diagnosis according to their current levels of academic performance, shepherding parents through the evaluation process, and training and coaching teachers in best instructional practices for a diverse classroom. Another one of Hallie’s primary roles is accessing and utilizing Covenant’s equitable services through its local school district. Prior to her role at Covenant, Hallie spent over a decade in urban, suburban, and rural public school districts as a teacher and instructional coach in special education. Hallie’s love for students with learning difficulties and their families came early in her career, before knowing the Lord would bless her with her own child with a diagnosed learning difficulty. God has allowed her personal experiences with her son to encourage and love families like hers. Hallie and her husband, Jason, reside with their two boys in Aledo, Texas, and are actively involved in their local church, where Jason is the lead pastor. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling with family and close friends, watching her boys play sports, and being outside with a good book.
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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