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Toodles!

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Absolutely! Cannot wait to hear about your first day tomorrow! Bye!!!

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Thank you so much again!

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References

Conflict Resolution: the Thomas-Kilmann Model. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.managetrainlearn.com/page/conflict-resolution-model

Friend, M. P. (2020). Interactions: collaboration skills for school professionals. Hoboken: Pearson.

Home. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ed.gov/

Idaho Department of Education. 2016 Special Education Manual. https://bblearn.uidaho.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-2123953-dt-content-rid-27876344_1/courses/201920_66395/2016-Special-Education-Manual.pdf

Kamau Oginga Siwatu, Steven Randall Chesnut, Angela Ybarra Alejandro, Haeni Alecia Young. (2016) Examining Preservice Teachers' Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy Doubts. The Teacher Educator 51:4, pages 277-296.

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Most definitely :)

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Oh my gosh you are right. How could I not remember. I feel so ready for my first day tomorrow. I have different conflict resolutions I plan to use to help everyone. I plan on being overly communicative and make sure everyone is on the same page by sending daily emails. I plan to listen and accommodate to the best of my abilities for each person. With  my ultimate goal of being what is best for the student. I also cannot wait to use my knowledge of IDEA conflict if needed. I believes though I have so much more to learn about culture but will not learn it until it happens sometimes. But I feel like in the field I am going to do great by knowing these things! Hey thank you again and you had amazing sources of information to share! Can you please send me them in APA format so I can use them to reference again and again?

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Wow homie! Did you not remember reading everything from the SPED manual I sent you quotes from again IDEA process is facilitation, informal conflict resolution, mediation, state complaints, due process hearings, and expedited due process hearings. But most of the time when there is an IDEA conflict a mediator is brought in to help because they know the law.

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Haha right! And Thank you! Hey before I go do you remember how IDEA address conflict resolution activities?

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Oh my goodness gracious great balls of fire! You are so right.  The hard part about implementing conflict resolution guidelines is that is not how some people argue. For example the teacher Leah I was talking about earlier was also telling me how crazy teaching is! She had guidelines to follow for conflict and was following them because she had complaints with her co-teacher. Instead of following it too the co-teacher started trying to turn the students against her. Talk about a challenge! I wish people would all just agree on rules and there was no conflict! But sadly I picked the wrong profession for that! Haha!

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On a collaboration day we got to observe remember! That is also how teams learn conflict resolution skills is by taking continuing education classes and during collaboration hours for teachers. It is also applied at the school I am going to be teaching at! Most conflict resolutions are picked out by the school or district and has a process conflicts have to go through.

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Oooo! I love that model! I just cannot remember for the life of me where did we learn about it?

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Yah I do! The guide states " The processes are facilitation, informal conflict resolution, mediation, state complaints, due process hearings, and expedited due process hearings. " It also gives me contacts to call on page 209 if I need advice. Which I pray I do not ever need to use. My goal though is to communicate it out and listen. I want to follow accommodating, compromising, and collaboration options of the 5 options of conflict resolution by Thomas Kilmann. I believe if I listen, think, and work with concerns from everyone, especially the child, the student will be able to grow more.

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You are so totally welcomed! We need to collaborate and help each other out because it takes an entire village to raise a child right!? Do you have any models for conflict resolution up your sleeve and ready to go and use?

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Woah. You see that on TV and in the news but I guess you do not believe it until it happens to you. I hope I am as ready as she was if I get in that situation. But I feel like I am thanks to my amazing classes at CWI and U of I. I think I will also do a questionnaire with the families at the beginning of the year to understand how they like things to keep conflict low and the needs of the student for success high. Thank you for all this information!

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Yes I do! As well as research to back it up! So according to a study done by Kamau Oginga Siwatu and Tehia V. Starker back in 2010 got pre-service teachers together and gave them culturally sensitive special education situations and said how would you solve the conflict and did they feel prepared. They found "  Pre- teachers' sense of preparedness and the strength of their culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy beliefs contribute to the prediction of their sense of efficacy to resolve the conflict presented in the case study." Meaning most pre-service teachers believed they could handle the situation because they were taught about different backgrounds. Meaning if you understand and know someones different backgrounds then you are able to help with the conflict. For example Leah Thayer an ex-special education teacher who now works with GT students told a story to me about a Muslim family she worked with. She would have to have everything done a week early for the meeting to send to the principal because he would be presenting it to the family because he was male. Knowing this about the family and having the principal run the meeting allowed for the best things to happen for the student because there was no culture conflict occurring because of her knowledge.

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Yikes that sounds scary but I agree that documenting and asking for help will get me through. Do you have any thoughts on cultural differences and conflict?

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Yes! The Idaho state manual for special education states if the court says each parent has custody (get a document from the court first) then each parent has rights like a normal parent. Which can cause a lot of problems if they disagree. This is where you will want to DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT.  Make sure both parents are involved  and when they disagree do not be afraid to ask someone smarter and do not forget that IDEA is key. The manual even states: " When parents who have joint legal custody give conflicting instructions, the district’s obligation is to inform the parents that any action proposed or refused will be based on the needs of the student and in accordance with the IDEA requirements. Both the district and either parent have options under the IDEA to resolve disagreements, including SDE Dispute Resolution processes such as mediation and due process hearings. " On page 171 it continues that if parents disagree with consent " When parents, both with legal authority to make educational decisions for their child, disagree on the revocation of consent for special education and related services, one parent may revoke consent for his or her child’s receipt of special education and related services at any time. The district must accept either parent’s revocation of consent, and provide written notice to the parents. After revoking consent, a parent maintains the right to subsequently request an initial evaluation which must be treated as an initial evaluation and not a re-evaluation for special education. A parent who disagrees with another parent regarding revocation of special  education services is not entitled to resolve the dispute through an IDEA due process hearing. " In short I believe documenting and asking people smarter aka more collaboration is VERY important here as well as what is best for the student.

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Wow that is huge. So I also have my first meeting with two parents who have joint custody. Any thoughts?

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Heck yes it is true and a big deal! The third party must be neutral and know the laws. The big key here being that when mediation occurs there has to be a written legally binding agreement mutually accepted by both parties and enforceable in court. Therefore it is a huge deal to have.

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Well ya I know that Gaetana. But I meant like for mediation. Is it true a mediator comes in as a third party to help parents and sometimes the district to resolve IDEA related conflict in IEP meetings?

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Oh my gosh so much!!! Especially with IDEA. So first with law. If there is any conflict with IDAPA (Idaho Administrative Code) and IDEA, IDEA supersedes all.

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Nice. I will  need use those ideas in my first year! It seems simple that if you communicate with everyone that most people stay happy and their isn't much conflict. As well as making sure voices are heard and not pushed aside. Do you know if the Idaho manual for special education has any thoughts on conflict?

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Yes she emailed Barbara every day updates on her son. She would also bcc the team so they knew where the student was at.

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That is amazing. I want to be that good! Did the teacher Barbara interact with follow any of the interpersonal characteristics from the textbook?

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Barbara Tropeano allowed me to talk with her and we discussed how her experience with conflict went with her son who was in the resource program for help in reading and writing. She explained that there was never much conflict because the teacher always listened to what she had to say and asked her for help with her son. For example the teacher could not get Barbara's son to do the one minute reading mazes. So instead of fighting with the child she emailed Barbara asking for help to get him to do the reading. Barbara loved it. All Barbara wanted was to know someone was helping her son and her opinion mattered.

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No worries I got you! You would want to look at page 48! It states how interpersonal communication is the BASIS let me say that again! BASIS for successful collaboration! It is when you are in constant communication with everyone on the team! Meaning you will need to work hard at always updating everyone and making sure an accurate perception and intercultural awareness is happening for you. This completing lowers conflicts just by making sure you talk to people. You can do this in your job everyday by emailing the team and parents about the student. It is like the parents I interviewed.

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Okay I can see that. But how do interpersonal characteristics contribute to conflict? I know we read it in the textbook I just cannot remember!

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She states "is a struggle that occurs when individuals perceive that those others are interfering with their goal attainment" (Page 212). Meaning for special education that conflict is when two sides who have the same goal do not think the other person is helping reach that goal appropriately. This is also how conflict happens. Two sides of a situation do not see or think the other side is understanding it their way. This will occur a lot in schools because of the HUGE movement to collaboration. Conflict cannot be avoided because of this. Not to mention so many different people from different backgrounds at schools. You cannot avoid it.

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Absolutely!!!!!!!!!

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Like the textbook we read Interactions by Marilyn Friend?

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Let us go through some material that I know you have been taught and shown before

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No worries so first to understand you have to know what conflict resolution is

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Okay so I am not fully understanding the conflict resolution and with my first IEP meeting tomorrow I REALLY do not want to mess up and make people mad!!!

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Hey Brennan! What's up?

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Hey Gaetana! I need to talk to you before my first day tomorrow!