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=Proposal= Sandy Pérez Learning Specialist Woodburn School District (sperez@woodburnsd.org)


 * Sandy Pérez, a learning specialist working with students with disabilities in a tri-lingual school. She obtained her bachelors degree in Social Services from Ottawa University in 1999, working as a social worker for the state of Oregon. The journey to public education started when Jacob, her son, was diagnosed with Austims, thus began the journey on a quest for knowledge. The more information that was obtained, the deeper the need to learn more, so from that grew a scholarship through Portland State University Bilingual Pathways for Special Education. This journey began in 1996 and continues to this day. She has completed her administrative license in May 2012, with the license to follow. The educational aspirations are to finish her education earning a Doctorate in Educational Administration.


 * Education**
 * Currently pursuing EDD coursework at George Fox University
 * Teaching early education classes, working with families through Willamette Educational Services
 * Teaching in K-5 school as a bilingual Special Education Teacher
 * Administrative Credential, State of Oregon
 * Master of Arts in Special Education, Portland State University
 * Bachelor of arts, Social Services, Ottawa University || ====

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My Family
I have enjoyed 16 years of marriage to my best-friend, Javier, we have two boys (11 & 15), and I have three older children we enjoy who are 25, 22, and 20. I am starting to enjoy what I have wanted to do for years, travel! I have been offered a job with the Department of Defense and our family will be moving to Japan in a few more weeks! || =Journal:= =06/30/12= Working in the area of special education we have many opportunities to use technology. One are we use technology is in the use of ipads for students who have a communication disability. We are able to use the ipad as a voice output tool for the students. I have found in the past year the biggest obstecal for me is not in training the student, it is in getting staff to use it in place of other methods. We have used PECS, which is a picture exchange communication system so long that when we introduce a new form of communication, it is the comfort level of the adult, not the child, which then becomes the hurdle we have to cross. My goal is to make technology work for me this next year and to reduce the fears many of our students and staff have around using it. I believe that I need to be the example to get the wheels in motion in order to benefit the students. I will now begin to do a little research on some programs that are available, finding free ones if possible since I have a very limited technolgy budget.

07/01/12 Continued to work on our project, Matt and I have turned in our proposal and continue to redefine what we are going to do. We have started the research process. We will meet on line on Tuesday at 7:00 pm to go over our joint research and decide what to do next. We are both using Storify as a tool for the presentation.

07/04/12 Went on line to try to do a little research before I am out for 10 days. I was able to find a few sites, yet nothing that was directly "Christian" related. I was becoming frustrated with what I was finding. There seemed to be a lot of information for parents on how to set limits and what your parental responsibility is. I will continue with this once I am back.

07/15/12 Just came home from my trip. I have gone back on line and spoke with my partner, Matt, we are meeting on Wednesday to discuss what we still need to do for the project and how we are going to present the information.

07/16/12 I took the entire day to work on my homework for the term. I have found a few more sites, yet there were more blogs out there, with parents creating a forum to discuss the issue. There was a website dedicated to Christian parenting, that looked interesting. I have created a list of what I feel our page should include. I will enter what I am able to, although I am having a little trouble working the storify page, I will e-mail Matt and look for some help.

07/20/12 I tried to do a little more research, I e-mailed Matt what I have and we have divided the presentation up so each of us will have a part in the discussion, we will present on Monday the 29th, I will be in the hotel in Seattle by then, I hope the internet does not mess up!! I believe the storify site is going to provide parents with a great resource to look for answers. I feel that as a parent we need to look to one another for help, we are all going through the same issues and concerns with our children, we need to just have the conversation and seek answers.

07/22/12 I have come back to take another look for some information to get the final pieces of the project done. I feel that when I look, no matter how I change the search criteria, I keep coming back to the same articles, web-pages and general blogs. I guess there is not enough information available, but the resource we are creating will provide one more place to look to.

**07/03/12** Research continues, here are some of the links we might be using.
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