Serena Manjur
Education Specialist, Los Angeles County Office of Education. Candidate MA in Special Education Cal Poly Pomona College of Education & Integrated Studies
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Serena Manjur is an Education Specialist with Los Angeles County Office of Education. Serena provides instructional support services at International Polytechnic High school, a project based learning school where they founded a student driven program to foster inclusion called Collaborative Student Success (CSS). Serena is a recipient Personnel Development SEEDS scholarship for the Cal Poly Pomona Education Specialist dual credential and masters program in which they are currently enrolled
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Collaborative Support for Post-Secondary Transition
Interactive virtual presentation covering concepts of collaborative support to equitably include neurodivergent learners in post-secondary transition presented by LACOE Transition Specialist, Education Specialist, and Administrator/Regional Center Counselor for individuals who are medically fragile.
Toolkit presented will begin with self-reflective practices. Our toolkit is designed to help students’ explore their funds of knowledge and individual experiences as a way to learn and/or adapt new concepts. This reflection can help students navigate and overcome societal/cultural stigmas around requesting support. Disability identity development supports the psychosocial readiness needed for successful transitions to post-secondary settings. This toolkit sets students up with a system for internal resource development they can use to guide their thoughts and actions along their self-determination journey in life.
The toolkit's first level of self-reflection promotes a robust, internal resource pool, which becomes the foundation for students to develop a second level, one of external resourcs. The next concept will help students to expand on their external resource development. Resources will include: evaluating and exploring available individualized academic supports; utilizing assistive technology and new learning strategies; and building community based tools developed to improve self-determination.
Finally, we will discuss the third level of the toolkit- idea of transferable skills, centered on improving post-secondary transition success. We want to show students, and their support system, why a strong emphasis on building advocacy strategies for all stakeholders, is the key to forming organic, long-lasting community bonds.
Synergy of Three: A Triforce Development of Support for Transition Resources
This presentation, formed by LACOE Transition Specialist, Education Specialist, and Administrator/Regional Center Counselor for individuals who are medically fragile, will facilitate a roundtable workshop focused on developing student advocacy resources, using groups of 3 people and a triangle. Our activity will focus on collaboration as a critical element when constructing free and accessible resources, centered on post-secondary transition success for students that are neurodiverse. Reliable resources for fostering change are available in your local community and this workshop is going to show you how.
Serena Manjur
Education Specialist, Los Angeles County Office of Education. Candidate MA in Special Education Cal Poly Pomona College of Education & Integrated Studies
Los Angeles, California, United States
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