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Equitable Identification Of El Students For Special Education By All Teachers, Hanna Winkelman
Equitable Identification Of El Students For Special Education By All Teachers, Hanna Winkelman
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The research question addressed in this project is: How do teachers refer EL students for special education services and how can the process be more equitable for students? The motivating factor for this research was one teacher’s frustration in referring EL students for special education services at a large urban school. The teacher felt as though the process was disorganized, inequitable and did not support EL students with the highest needs. The author interviews ESL, special education teachers and a bilingual educational assistant at one urban school to identify their perspective of the process and frustrations that arise from it. …