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She/her. I am an orientation and mobility specialist and intern TVI at the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education. One thing I would like to learn is how to engage a low vision third grader with speech challenges in transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn.

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I am a paraprofessional working for San Francisco Unified School District.  I work in a 3-5 classroom that supports students with social and emotional support needs. He/him pronouns.
I hope to learn the fundamentals of teaching literacy in order to help my students become lifelong readers!

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I am a Special Education teacher at Hillcrest Elementary in San Francisco. I teach grades K through 2 Second.

I hope to learn how to effectively teach literacy skills that can help my students in need.

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Hello Everyone! My name is Micaela Bocanegra. I am a Paraprofessional (with the VI program) at Pajaro Valley Unified School District in Santa Cruz county. This is my 2nd year at SFSU in the MA/V.I. program. I hope to learn how to bridge and support the gap with our SPED and Gen. Ed students!

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She/her pronouns. I'm an ISE Specialist at Rocketship Alma Academy. I work with K-3rd grade. I want to learn all things literacy so I can better support my students during reading intervention.

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Job Coach at NOVAworks Young Adult Program.
She/Her
I hope to learn how create lessons that are all inclusive and how to create a classroom environment that all feel their best.

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I am a grad student in the program of Special Education: Mild to Moderate with teaching credentials. I hope to expand my knowledge in UDL!

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I am a 3rd grade paraprofessional educator at McGill School. Pronouns are she/her. I hope to learn more about phonics to support students.

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I am not in the VI field yet but hope to be in it soon.  My pronouns are she and her.  There's not one thing in particular I hope to learn, I just want to learn as much as I can to better support my future students.

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Intern Teacher for the Visually Impaired.  I work with Riverside County office of Education.  This is my second year in the MA Special education and VI program

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Intern Teacher for the Visually Impaired.  I work with Riverside County office of Education.  This is my second 

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Substitute Teacher at a Jewish school in San Francisco (mainly for Hebrew and English).
In my second year at SF State, completing my teaching credential in Special Education (mild/moderate).
I am looking forward to learning new methods and strategies to continue to grow as a teacher.

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Resource Specialist/SDC Teacher at Francisco MS with SFUSD. I am a Resource Specialist teacher supporting 7th/8th grade students and teaching a math SDC class for 8th grade students this year. I want to learn in this class all about reading interventions to meet the variety of needs of my students.

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I am a student in the Secondary Education MA/credentials program. She/Her
One thing I hope to learn this semester is how to teach the ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Also, I hope to learn about RICA.

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Teacher of the Visually Impaired (Intern). I teach ages infant to 22 years and I am really enjoying my profession! I am interested in learning everything taught in this class so I can grow as a teacher.

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Academic Intervention Specialist- middle school
Mild/Mod SPED Credential Program
I am excited to learn more about the Children's Literature Project.

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Orientation & Mobility Specialist at Mission Valley SELPA - Fremont/Union City/Newark.
I hope to learn how I can better support my students with visual impairments with literacy while they learn Braille at the same time.

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Paraprofessional at San Ramon Valley high school.
I hope to learn alternative ways to teach literacy to my students.

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I work as an SPHC (working one-on-one with a student with medical needs) in a K-3rd grade class at Santa Clara County of Ed.  She/Her.
I hope to learn all I can about literacy instruction so that I can better accommodate and teach to the VI population. I am in the V.I. Program.

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Mild/Moderate Instructional aide at Eastside High School in Lancaster. It is an English support classroom containing grades 9th and 11th so they can be extra rowdy! But I enjoy helping them with their writing and hope to learn as much as I can in this course to better understand/teach my future students.

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Paraeducator at Alamo Elementary in SF.
She/her
I am particularly interested to learn the most effective teaching approaches and strategies for students who struggle with learning to read.

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I am a Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) contracting throughout various districts in the East Bay. I work with students from age 3-22. I am looking forward to learning more about literacy education and intervention, and looking forward to merging it with my VI knowledge of literacy.

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--Current second-year student in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences program.
--Previous literacy and language development consultant at a private educational center (using programs based on the Lindamood-Bell method, K-12)
--Currently working with a client with aphasia, alexia, and agraphia (age 38) who is re-learning how to speak, read, and write
--Also have an internship in a local SFUSD school with a Speech-Language Pathologist
--She/her pronouns
--I'm looking forward to learning a greater variety of literacy intervention methods so I can better help future clients!

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I am currently teaching a tk/kinder SDC at Libbon Elementary in the Santa Maria Bonita School District. I would love to learn more about what kind of resources can I use to teach literacy skills to students who have disabilities and are ELs too.

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Teacher in OUSD's Young Adult Program. She/Her. One thing I hope to learn are some strategies for helping foster a (hopefully lifelong!) love of reading for diverse communities of learners.

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RSP Teacher for 8th Graders in Belmont. He/Him. I would l like to learn how to maximize student choice in my pedagogy so that students can develop literacy from preferred texts that are meaningful to them.

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I am Larysa Larson.
I teach Visual Art at an elementary school setting, 1-5th grades.
Currently, I am in the third semester on my Masters and Credential in Special Education Mild/Moderate Support Needs program.

I hope to learn current literacy teaching strategies to support all students in my classroom.

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TVI assistant at SBES Inc.
She/her
One thing I hope to learn everything and anything I can learn to better those with visual impairment.

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Not currently working, about to relocate. She/Her pronouns. One thing I hope to learn this semester is how children learn to read and how students in special education may learn differently. I also love children's literature!

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Amy Cancelmo (she/her)
Not currently teaching
SPED Mild/Mod MA/Credential Program

One thing I hope to learn is how to collaborate with General Education teachers to develop and support existing curriculum in inclusive classrooms.

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SDC Science teacher at Edna Brewer Middle School. I hope to learn engaging reading interventions to support all my students at their varying levels of literacy.

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Student in the Special Education MA/credentials program, volunteer at Creativity Explored gallery for special needs adults. He/him default for now, pronoun flexible. I would like to learn about how teachers can better address the influence of technology in children's literacy and linguistic development.

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I am one week into a new position (for me) at the San Francisco Day School, a private K-8. My position is Lower School Math Lab Teacher; my students are in grades K-4.

I would like to learn about seamless intervention for children with speech language disabilities or challenges with reading or writing.

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Private tutor and copyeditor
She/they pronouns

I hope to learn more about literacy interventions in general (I feel like I have more of an intuitive understanding than  structured knowledge of literacy interventions).

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SDC Teacher at John O'Connell High School, teaching Biology and English this year. This is my third year teaching, and my final year at SFSU. I work primarily with 10th graders.
I want to learn better literacy teaching strategies that can supplement and enhance my English classroom!

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Ed Specialist at Manzanita Community School/Oakland. Grades 4/5. All Pronouns. One thing I hope to learn is how to pass the RICA. :-) Seriously. I haven't taken it yet but I plan to after this class.

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Literacy coach at Monroe Elementary School. She/Her
One thing I hope to learn this semester is how to better integrate literacy intervention for kids with special need/learning differences into the General Education classroom seamlessly.