Pac Rim 2008 Info
Pac Rim Speakers: Edward J. Kame‘enui
Patricia Wood | Brenda Smith Myles | Manulani Aluli Meyer | Janet Cole | Jacquelyn Brand | Caroline Casey | Patricia A. Morrissey | Edward J. Kame‘enui
Tuesday April 15th, 2008: 9:00 am - 10:00 am in the Molokai Ballroom on the topic of Teach to Reach All Learners
“The Challenges of RTI for Scientifically Based Special Education Research: Ode to Commoner’s Second Law of Ecology”
Dr. Kame‘enui will discuss the legal, conceptual, pedagogical, technical and empirical challenges in designing and delivering Response to Intervention (RTI). In doing so, he will explore what it means to teach all children while also ensuring that each child’s unique individual needs are being met in a complex host environment known as schools. Finally, Dr. Kame‘enui will examine the instructional challenges and technical requirements of an “RTI” approach to teaching each and all children to specified levels of academic proficiency.
Biography
Edward J. Kame‘enui is an international scholar at the University of Oregon who served as the first commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research.
Dr. Kame‘enui has co-authored more than a dozen textbooks on topics related to reading, curriculum design, and managing classroom behavior. He has published more than 130 research journal articles and book chapters.
His areas of research and teaching include early literacy and language development, school-wide reading improvement, the design of high quality educational materials, and the architecture of instruction.
