Month: November 2009
The Association for Direct Instruction invited Hillary Whiteside, Director of Children’s Workshop, along with Mary Taylor, Director of The Institute for Effective Education’s (TIEE’s) Urban Skills Center to attend a conference in Eugene, Oregon on the use of Direct Instruction (DI) practices and materials with students with autism. The TIEE Directors met with two eminent research professors of DI practices and outcomes, Tim Slocum, Ph.D., of Utah State University and Cathy Watkins, Ph.D., of California State University Stanislaus, to develop a workshop that would inform
The Institute for Effective Education (TIEE) has recently obtained I-17 status enabling it to enroll foreign students in its COOK Education Center. After a comprehensive review by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization, TIEE was given the ability to grant foreign student status (I-20) to eligible students. The status has recently been granted to a Pakistani adolescent, who has been enrolled in COOK Education Center’s Secondary Program following an extensive assessment of the school’s ability to educate the student in keeping with
Recommended highly by Carol Nielsen, Head Coordinator of COOK Education Center, Steve Wheless was named The Institute for Effective Education’s (TIEE’s) Professional of the Year for the 2008-2009 academic year. Mr. Wheless was cited as a model staff member, a highly skilled teacher who has been successful working with students who have never before been successful in school, an outstanding coach and trainer of fellow staff members who is often requested as a supervisor due to his high level of skill and his genuine concern
Steven Wheless, special educator in the Foundations Program of The Institute for Effective Education’s (TIEE’s) COOK Education Center, a “model TIEE staff member since 2002,” and TIEE’s 2008 Professional of the Year, was awarded the Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Learning Disabilities (CEC-DLD) at that association’s annual conference held at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego in October. The award, which is presented annually at the CEC-DLD Conference, recognizes outstanding professionals who serve students with specific learning