Congratulations to the Previous Award Winners!

Northern Rockies Association for the Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired (NRAER)

Provided training for educators and personnel serving low incidence sensory impairments. The focus of the training was for participants to gain knowledge of current assistive technology, assessment and strategies for appropriate programming an accessibility for the blind and visually impaired and deaf-blind population.

Belgrade Public Schools

K-5 and 6-8 Math Fluency and Customization Training

Provided training at the beginning of the school year to develop multiple strategies to develop numeracy and automaticity with mathematical algorithms. Math performance was an area that was identified by the district and schools as a priority for the school year.

Manhattan Public Schools

Bal-A-Vis-X Levels 1, 2 and Adaptive

Bal-A-Vis-X is a series of some 300 exercises, requiring multiple thousands of mid-line crossings in three dimensions, these exercises are steadily rhythmic, with pronounced auditory foundation, executed at a pace that naturally results from proper physical techniques. Bal-A-Vis-X enables the whole mind-body system to experience the symmetrical flow of a pendulum.

This carefully modulated system of exercises can become increasingly complex OR increasingly simplified/modified for those with severe special needs. In group (school) setting the program demands cooperation, promotes self-challenge, fosters peer teaching.

Gallatin-Madison Cooperative

IEP Facilitation One Day Skills Training: Building Partnerships

Provided high quality, hands on, skill training in IEP facilitation to LEAs/Administration and IEP Administration Designees and the IEP Case Managers in order to both ensure IDEA procedural safeguards and build positive and collaborative relationships with entire IEP team serving a child.

 Whitehall Public Schools

Math Intervention Training 

Provided teacher training for math supplement and intervention program. Provided an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of how ALEKS works, including available features, their functionality, and best practices.

Montana School for the Deaf and Blind

Visual Phonics

Trained school personnel, Part C providers, preschool staff, and others in using Visual Phonics. Visual Phonics is a multi-sensory approach. The mouth movement for each phoneme or sound is represented by a hand gesture. The hand signal is then reflected in the written symbol. Students taught with this approach are able to use hand signs to cue themselves and teachers can use the signs and symbols to assist reading, speaking, and spelling skills. Participants learned how to incorporate Visual Phonics into their instruction and interactions with children to make learning and communication more visual and kinesthetic.