iep City How would you like to write better goals and objectives? Better IEP's The Magic of Writing Great Goals and Objectives So you want to write better goals and objectives.  First of all is there a better way of writing goals and objectives?  What are teachers doing all around the country?  Are there special education teachers that are meeting with a lot of success writing goals and objectives?  Is the system working?  Should we be thinking about alternatives to writing goals and objectives?   What do parent?s think about the goals and objective that we are writing?  Has someone discovered a better way to write goals and objectives?  Who is doing a good job writing goals and objectives?  We sure want to know.  Who knows about a great website that you would like to share that deals with the writing of goals and objectives? If you want to share your good ideas about writing goals and objectives, we will share what we have and help you to write better goals and objectives.  Just take a look at our demo and see what you think about the action research that we have complete so far.   What are your thoughts?   E-Mail: Suprschool@aol.com New Ideas in Special Education Get your kids excited about learning. What happens when a student with special needs is gifted? We include information about gifted learners, who also have special needs that are not always acknowledged or met. You will find interesting and informative articles by specialists, stories of parents and teachers who have found successful ways of dealing with their children's needs, state and federal guidelines, links to related sites, and many other useful resources. We add new materials to this area regularly and are always anxious to be responsive to your needs and interests. Our high motivational learning programs include: Kid’s Talk Radio Jr. Business School Jr. Medical School Questions and suggestions may be sent to us at Super School University: E-mail: Suprschool@aol.com At Super School University we are working hard a coming up with answers and curriculum solutions to the following questions: 1. What do you do with the child that has so many ideas that he cannot put them down on paper? 2. How can you encourage students to enjoy playing with ideas? 3. How can you help students to go beyond textbooks and classroom walls? 4. How can you provide a safe learning environment, which is open and accepting of unusual ideas and feelings? 5. How can you provide students with opportunities to learn by discovery, manipulating, experimenting, questioning, exploring and risk-taking? 6. How can you help students to do a better job at listening, speaking, reading, writing, and computing? For the past ten years we have included students with learning disabilities into our high motivational learning programs at Kid’s Talk Radio and Jr. Business School. We designed special program that allowed some students to benefit from our Jr. Medical School science programs. Do you know of any students that could benefit from some of our programs? Contact: Bob Barboza Kid’s Talk Radio Suprschool@aol.com New Ideas for Students with Special Needs: Kid's Talk Radio, California Super School University & Jr. Business School Kids Talk Radio, Los Angeles CARS Conference 2008 Image:  Special Education Teacher in the National News All Children Are Gifted! What happens to special education teachers after they retire? A Resource Specialist is Teaching Jr. Medical School After 30 years of teaching special education and writing iep’s I decided to continue to write IEP’s only this time they are for gifted and talented students in my Jr. Medical School program. Why would you want to continue to write iep’s? The answer is simple. Writing individual educational plans works. Who would not want an individual educational plan? I play the drums. Write me an iep. I love it. I am going to end up playing better. So, why are we having so much trouble writing iep’s in special education classrooms. You tell me. Contact: Suprschool@aol.com.   Question:  Do you have any special needs students that are also given and talented.  If you do, I would love to hear from you.  Contact: Bob Barboza at Suprschool@aol.com. Now back to my original story. I wanted to teach gifted students, so I created a high motivational distance learning program called Jr. Medical School. I love it. This program is designed for teachers that love to teach and students that love to learn. And now for the rest of the story: (See Video) REALLY, REALLY LONG-DISTANCE LEARNING Two home schooled brothers Matt and Mikey Thorn just spoke to South Pole explorer Doug Stoup in a live conversation from their home in Mississippi. The conversation was part of a distance learning program called Jr. Medical School, and was hosted on PNN, the Personal News Network. Bob Barboza, and Lauren Elliott, the founders of Kid's Talk Radio, and PNN, combined their resources to design a platform that connects students and parents with learning opportunities from all over the world using the latest web 2.0 technologies. The program gets both kids and parents excited about learning. Said their mother; "It isn't very often two boys from a small town in Mississippi get to talk to an explorer in Antarctica." The web program is designed to reach classrooms, as well as home-schooled children, anywhere in the world. Additional programs include classes for gifted and talented students, English language learners and students with special needs. Jr. Medical School for Inner City Students Jr. Business School (This program is designed for special needs student.) Community Based Story Telling Projects Kid’s Talk Radio/PNN News: Student Journalism FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE FROM MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL LONG-DISTANCE LEARNERS 1/6/2008 By Ginny Miller Daily Journal FULTON - Home schooled brothers Matt and Mikey Thorn would like to be physicians one day, but a Junior Medical School course they take has turned them into science journalists. While researching medical information about Antarctica, the boys recently questioned explorer Doug Stoup, who's walking across the South Pole. The interview, conducted Dec. 18 from the boys' kitchen on a brand-new speakerphone purchased for the occasion, was broadcast live on Kid's Talk Radio and PNN.com. "I thought it was amazing that he was able to get a connection," Matt said, noting that Stoup was speaking to the brothers via a solar-powered satellite phone. "We learned that he was taking Shackleford's route," said Mikey, explaining that Stoup is guiding a two-man team 660 miles along Ernest Shackleton's planned 1915 "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition" route to the South Pole. Shackleton's trip was never completed because his ship, the Endurance, was destroyed. Ninth-grader Matt, 14, also said he and 11-year-old Mikey, a sixth-grader, listen to Stoup's daily podcasts about his adventure, which began in December in Cape Town, South Africa. Their interview with Stoup, which lasted about nine minutes, was arranged by Bob Barboza of Long Beach, Calif., founder and CEO of Kids Talk Radio and Junior Medical School's creator. "Through this distance learning program, they have been creating a Web site (http://drmatt.pnn.com and http://drmikey.pnn.com), learning about the body and medicine," said Pat Thorn, who began home schooling her sons four years ago. "It is a very intense program designed to give them a glimpse into what med school would be like and to ignite their love of learning." According to the Kid's Talk Radio Web site, the Junior Medical School curriculum includes reading three books, completing 10 medical projects, building science vocabulary skills, writing science reports and producing Kid's Talk Radio science reports. "We've definitely improved our writing skills," said Matt, who breeds fish, such as guppies and Endler's livebearers in his free time. Mikey likes skateboarding. The brothers are members of Boy Scout Troop 85 at Harrisburg Baptist Church in Tupelo and enjoy watching history programs on television. The virtual medical explorers have no plans to visit the South Pole in person, but they'll never forget the experience. Said their mother; "It isn't very often two boys from a small town in Mississippi get to talk to an explorer in Antarctica." Contact Daily Journal education writer Ginny Miller at 678-1582 or ginny.miller@djournal.com. Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/6/2008, section z , page 8 ******************************************* About Kid's Talk Radio Kid's Talk Radio is the inspiration of Bob Barboza, its founder and CEO. Bob Barboza PNN Director of Education Outreach Bob Barboza is the founder and CEO of Kid's Talk Radio, Jr. Medical School and Jr. Business School. Bob is a talented teacher who loves to inspire kids of all abilities to challenge themselves and grow. Bob holds a BS in Sociology, from Los Angeles State University and an MS in Education, from Mount St. Mary's College. Bob was awarded the California Computer Using Educator-Leadership in Technology Award. After retiring from 30 years of teaching in the public schools, Bob joined the PNN team to help people tell stories and improve lives. Bob is also a composer, photographer, software designer and professional musician who has played in the Los Angeles and Hollywood area and is currently working on his second Cabo Verde Visual Jazz Opera. Bob is currently working as a journalist and Editor in Chief for PNN, covering Sports, Education, and Entertainment. His most recent assignments are reporting on NCAA women's colligate and USA National Team Volleyball, Mac World, and the 2008 NAMM Show. Contact information: Kid’s Talk Radio/PNN News 1857 Josie Ave. Long Beach, CA 90815 (562) 594-8580 Office Suprschool@aol.com www.KidsTalkRadioLA.com (Listen to Interview) http://JrMedicalSchool.pnn.com http://KidsTalkRadio.pnn.com http://KidsTalkRadioShow.pnn.com ******************************************* About PNN PNN – The Personal News Network is a new media social network founded in 2007 by Lauren Elliott, its founder and CEO. Lauren Elliott CEO & Founder of PNN The Personal News Network Lauren Elliott is the best selling author of 23 original computer software titles with over 30 million copies of work in circulation - including the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? software game series. Winner of over 50 awards in originality and lifetime sales categories, Lauren is also the Founder and Creative Developer of several software development, internet and book publishing companies. PNN.com opened to the public in early 2007, as the long awaited brainchild of Lauren Elliott. In years prior, Lauren had gone through the painstaking process of publishing a book, which focused on his well-known mother - niece to Eleanor Roosevelt. Publishing a book was no easy task and while Lauren was committed to telling his mother's story, he thought he could find a way to make sharing simple. It was then that Lauren realized there must be other people who want to share, but are hindered by the publishing process, financial boundaries and time constraints. This revelation led Lauren to seek out new technologies and liberate publishing, both across the street and across the globe. With his dream now realized, PNN.com empowers people to advance the ways in which they communicate, bridging traditional cultural, economic and social boundaries. This unique platform brings people together on a level that was impossible in the not-so-distant past. It's All Abot The Family How can we make things better for the students, teachers, and families that we serve? It is no easy job raising a family these days. You have lots of challenges on your hands and plenty to thing about. When things are not going well at school, your problems get compounded. If you student has special needs you will need to work with an IEP team to come up with some solutions that will get your child's learning on the right track. If your IEP team works like a real effective team you can solve problems and design educational plans that make sense and that will work for your child. We want to help you. Our action research team has come up with a few solutions that are working for our parents, teachers, students and administrators. Please visit this web site. Look at what we are doing and most importantly what we are planning. We offer mini-grants for teachers, software solutions for students with special needs, consulting services, new ways at looking at goals and objective writing, new worksheets and assessment probes, and custom solutions for IEP's. If you don?t find a solution, send me an e-mail and I will try my best to find you a solution. I have over thirty years of special education teaching experience and will be happy to share what I know. Thank you for visiting our website, Bob Barboza, MS. Project Super School/IEP City E-Mail:Suprschool@aol.com (562) 594-8580 Office New Ideas for Special Education Teachers iep Tool Bar Supreme Our new iep Tool Bar Supreme program will be helping teachers to complete their IEP's faster during IEP Crunch Time.  This program now has updated goals and objectives as well as new assessment probles and related worksheets.  The IEP Tool Bar program works with your exsiting electronic IEP program you don't have to change anything.  It will help you to write better IEP's in half the time. IEP City: Tool Bar Supreme: Feature List · 4,600 Goals and Objectives in Spanish and English Hundreds of new assessment probes Assessment templates aligned to goals and objectives Student Profiles Student Lists IEP Programs Locators Goals and Objective Binder Global Templates Things To Do Organizer Special Education Resources Translation Resources Program Scheduling StellDell Assessment Locator Special Education Resource Locators Spelling Check Dictionaries Program Preferences Set Up Center IEP Tool Bar Help Center PDF Instruction Quick Start and Technical Manuals IEP City web site support Macintosh and Windows Hybrid CD $99.95 each Five Packs $ 449.95, Call for School and/or district license. Prices are subject to change without notice. Special Education News Kid's Talk Radio Interview Mainstreaming with Kid’s Talk Radio Our action research team is always looking for meaningful was to include students with special needs with general education students. Kid’s Talk Radio is another creative way to get the job done. Bob Barboza has created a special education action research project called Kid’s Talk Radio. It was originally designed to for gifted students. Kid’s Talk Radio is about finding a high motivational way for students to listen, speak, read, write, and compute. We teach our students how to become news reporters. We design individual educational plans for each of our students. With the help of programs like Goals, Objectives, Benchmarks, and Standards and IEP ToolBar we can design custom learning plans that get results. Our goal is have our students listen to others that our producing effective new broadcasts. This leads to our new Kid’s Talk Radio Auditory Processing Training Program. This program helps students with the auditory memory skills necessary for them to remember what they are talking about. In addition, we tailor radio reading passages that are at an instruction reading level for the students we are working with. This helps to build the oral reading skills necessary for our students to read news passages on the radio. We build writing skills by giving our students a reason to write. Speaking is a necessary part of being a radio news reporter or DJ. We work in collaboration with our general education teachers and the speech language specialist to build the necessary skills to produce student with suitable oral reading skills. We want our students to speak like real radio announcers. Computers skills are an important part of working at Kid’s Talk Radio. We teach our students to use computers, work with sound effects machines, record radio broadcast, create Podcast, ZCast, and Quick Time Radio Shows. We have found that though high motivational learning projects we keep our teachers and students motivated while we teach our special needs and gifted students to listen, speak, read, write, and compute. In Summary, our students are involved in project based IEP’s that are measurable, produce meaningful results, and keep our teachers and students motivated all during a full IEP planning period. This high motivational approach makes it possible for general education teachers to participate in the training of students with special needs. We use electronic IEP’s, new student and teacher productivity tools, Goals, Objectives, Benchmarks, and Standards, and IEP ToolBar to save us time so we can do what we love to do best. This program is designed for teachers that love to teach. We are always looking for educators that have creative ways to help students with special needs. Bob Barboza has taught special education for over thirty years. He is an educator, composer, software designer, and teacher on special assignment. Barboza works with both gifted and talented students and students with special needs. He is the author of Jr. Medial School, Jr. Business School, Jr. Law School, and Kid’s Talk Radio. He was the principal designer for the electronic IEP used by the Los Angles Unified School District. At present, he works as a design advisor to Steve Ormbrek a designer of electronic IEP’s and IEP support projects. Try Our Goals and Objectives Demo Contact Us Today To Get A User ID and Password Request Your Demo Password & User ID First Name Last Name School or School District Position At School Address Line 1 City State Zip Code Evening Phone () - E-mail Address Reason for Request Demo Instructions: Please complete the entire form.  We cannot process incomplete forms.  Our demo is a snapshot of the program that we will ship to you.  If you have more questions send your e-mail to Suprschool@aol.com.  All of our programs are designed for both Macintosh and Windows based computers. Try Our New IEP Solution Online: Goals, Objectives, Benchmarks, and Standards   >> Click Here To View Demo << New Ideas for Better IEP’s Meetings That Turn Parents into Partners Parents have valuable information. If you want to teat the whole child you are going to have to find better ways at getting at the valuable information that parents have. Bob Barboza’s Action Research Team is leading the way with his observation line of software solutions. In our attempt to find more meaningful ways to help parents to participate in the IEP process we have given our action research team the task of collecting information from parents that can help at the IEP. Our new program Observations for Parents is doing the job. Visit our new parent information page to get the rest of the story.  New Parent Page. polls © 2003-2009, IepCity, Bob Barboza & Steve Ormbrek, All Rights Reserved