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Dian Mawene; Aydin Bal; Dosun Ko; Linda Orie; Elizabeth Schrader; Jahyun Yoo – Exceptional Children, 2025
Racial disproportionality in special education and school discipline remains a persistent social justice issue in the U.S. education system. Drawing from a 4-year-long school-community-university partnership within an Anishinaabe Band of Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin, we propose a theoretical and practical framework called "decolonizing…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Decolonization, High Schools
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Bal, Aydin; Afacan, Kemal; Clardy, Tremayne; Cakir, Halil Ibrahim – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
This article presents a formative intervention study, called "Learning Lab" that facilitated the collective design of a culturally responsive behavioral support system at an urban middle school in the United States. Learning Lab united parents, teachers, support staff, education leaders, and researchers, specifically those who have been…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Behavior Modification, Student Behavior
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Bal, Aydin; Kozleski, Elizabeth B.; Schrader, Elizabeth M.; Rodriguez, Esmeralda M.; Pelton, Scott – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
The enduring existence of disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education programs and disciplinary practices creates a double bind for educators, educational leaders, and families. Disproportionality is an adaptive systemic issue that is not under any entity's control; thus,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students