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Hi I'm Colleen.

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I'm a resource teacher.

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I was in a classroom.

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A full inclusion classroom in 2011.

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That's when I first initially got trained
and I'm going deeper every year.

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And I think eventually I'll end up in China
if that's *inaudible* (audience laughing)

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**off camera** I was going to say Sacramento
had Going Deeper Trainings, which we did the

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second year.

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And then they had Going Even Deeper.

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Then they didn't know what to say for the
third year.

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So they are like "Do we want to go deeper?"

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"Do we want to go higher?"

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So as she said, we just keep digging.

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It's been a journey.

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I just want to briefly talk about parent involvement.

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I was one of those that was "Volun-told" two
days ago.

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"Thank you for volunteering to be on our panel."

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Okay!

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I'm part of the leadership team for CSEFEL.

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We had Craig there just recently, which was
a really great meeting actually.

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One of the goals we want to work on is parent
involvement.

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I know about you and if you guys have any
ideas to get parents really on board with

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this, it would be much appreciated.

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I take ideas.

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I borrow ideas.

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I steal ideas whenever I can.

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We have an excellent set of social workers,
four of them.

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They offer a series of parent discussions
about CSEFEL

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"How to teach your kids how to have strong
relationships with their friends."

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"How to have a strong relationship with your
child."

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So they hold these series.

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They do them in Spanish and they do them in
English.

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It's a series of four.

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Unfortunately, we don't have a big turnout.

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Sometimes there are more staff people than
there are parents.

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But, we feed them.

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We take care of the kids.

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It's very, very enjoyable.

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So, we are trying to get more and more people
involved.

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Having said that, there are some of our classroom
teachers...

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Because I am a resource teacher, I'm very
privileged that I can move around to all the

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sites and see how they are all implementing
CSEFEL.

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Some of our sites are just incredible as far
as getting parents involved.

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One of the things was this one teacher asked
a parent to make Super Friend capes.

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Do we have that?

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**off camera** I do have that.

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I'll actually show you what it looks like.

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This is Super Friend.

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This is in one of our classrooms.

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She has this huge poster of Super Friend up.

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And the little post-its you see up there,
are the observations, the anecdotes

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that this teacher observes during the day.

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She puts the up there and then when the parents
comes in, they see what their child has done

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to be Super Friend
So that they can take it home and say "Oh

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my goodness!

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You were such a good friend to so-and-so.

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You helped him ride his bike.

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You helped the teacher put toys away."

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And she puts them in their Anecdotal Binders.

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So, it's a great way for the parents to reinforce
this at home and the kids can also go up and

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see their names.

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She puts this up daily, so she tries to get
everybody, or mostly everybody, during the

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day.

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This is another teacher and... can you hold
it up?

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The red cape
This teacher asked a parent if she would make

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a cape
She only wanted a red cape and she took the

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Super Friend picture and make a cape with
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So, they have three of these in the classroom.

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And the kids, oh my gosh!

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They love them.

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And there's a little button.

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A Super Friend button that they also put on.

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There was another one.

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Okay.

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The problem solving box there in one of our
full inclusion classrooms.

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And then there is this set of problem solving
cards

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We do send those home with some of our more
challenging children

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so the parents can reinforce these expectations
at home as well.

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And there is one other Super Friend one that
I sent.

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**off camera** Oh!

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Did I not put it in?

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Sheesh! (laughs) I thought I got them all.

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Okay.

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There was another one, um, from the same class
Okay.

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The teacher downloaded these little superhero
bodies...

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**off camera** Oh no, no, no.

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I did.

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I did.

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It's right here.

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There they are.

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There they are (audience laughing)
So like I said, she downloaded these bodies.

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The kids got to choose their own superhero,
and they put their little face on there.

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So during the day when they do a Super Friend
activity, they put it up on the Super Friend

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Board.

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It's a great, great tool in that classroom.

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This is a full emersion classroom and they
love seeing their little super bodies up there.

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And you know super heroes are something kids
really love, and teachers really struggle

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with sometimes the messages that super heroes
are violent and there is a lot of worry about

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how they utilize those and to turn the super
heroes into Super Friends and knowing what

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Super Friend does, I think is really helpful
I just want to remind everybody this is the

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original Super Friend from the national website
We've, Alejandro, where are you?

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He hates attention so I'm so happy to point
this out.

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He is our artist who drew our Super Friend
and has done all the drawings for Tucker Turtle

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and all that on our website.

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So we really encourage you to look at that.

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But Super Friend is Super Friend.

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Now let's go back to Elaine's Classroom.

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I mixed everything all up.

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My name is Elaine Hill.

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I am a classroom teacher.

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Iactually teach a double session.

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Head Start is 8 classrooms so a total of 45
students and that is a lot to keep up with.

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I'd also like to give acknowledgement to one
of our other resources teachers in the classroom,

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Jennifer Osalbo
**applause**

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Our focus is, in Sacramento City, is to develop
a team

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Not just a team of silos, but rather a team
of support

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In my classroom I'm really able to have a
resource teacher, I can just put on speed

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dial, or my coordinator and one of the social
workers as well

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We have this on going support, which we provide
resources, not only to our teachers but also

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to staff
I don't know if you passed out the pictures

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What you will see there.

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One of the resources from one of our resource
teachers provided, PDAs

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And you can see around the Super Friend, there
are thought bubbles as PDA reminders

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We are able to place those around the classroom
as reminders.

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To give an example, "Wow!

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That was a cool way..." to describe what the
child is doing or even just giving a high

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five
So by having these thought bubbles around

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the classroom supports the teacher
We also are able to show parents how to give

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a PDA, how to express one descriptively and
we also have substitute teachers come into

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our classrooms.

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So as you can see, we provide this on going
program which is important to children by

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providing reminders.

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**off camera** How about that Super Vision?

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I love that
Oh yes, the Super Vision, thank you.

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The Super Vision is, as many of you may know,
we are constantly on going monitoring of course

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In Sac City, we are under the microscope right
now, just like all of our centers are

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So the Super Vision is when the on going monitoring
shows how we unite and gather, but it has

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the Super Friends there incorporated
Even the children they love that poster.

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They are constantly pointing to it
Just like one of our previous examples, we

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too have made Super Friends of the children.

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They have designed their own Super Friends
and we place PDAs on them

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When parents come in we show them, "Wow!

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Look what your child did today!"

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And we describe it, and so parents look forward
to those positive interactions as opposed

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to, "Well, Johnny did this today" in the negative
sense.

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But rather we want to partner with our parents
in relationship building.

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It's going extremely well.

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So one other aspect of our program is to have
a daily job chart.

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The children are grouped by color and look
forward to being helpers for the day.

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In addition to the classroom functions, there
is also a Super Friend helper.

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The Super Friend wears the button, and usually
there is more than one, and that Super Friend

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can help with anything we need.

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"Oh!

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We need a Super Friend over here to help with
clean up" or the playhouse or what have you

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or we need a Super Friend to help put away
the bikes

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So the children are eager to be that Super
Friend for the day

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So at the end of the day, in addition to acknowledging
the Super Friend, we also acknowledge other

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students who were Super Friends for the day
Our future strategies, and I know management

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and resource staff are constantly in conversation
about this, is to bring everyone on board

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with the training.

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To understand the Why of what we do.

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And so we ensure that our child sitter and
parents have the little green piece and we

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explain how these functions work as well as
our goal to strive for 5 to catch the child

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doing well and actually engage the children
We really like to educate our parents, educate

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our staff and also support one another.

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Give one another PDAs and I think that's important.

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Those are some of the directions we are going
in and I'm interested in hearing today and

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taking in more ideas and taking those back
to our staff

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So once again, thank you and we appreciate
the opportunity