Empowering Educators Conference
About the Empowering Educators Conference
Mission
The Georgia Council for Learning Disabilities (GCLD) is a statewide organization that promotes evidence-based teaching, collaboration, research, leadership, and advocacy within the state of Georgia. GCLD is composed of professionals who represent diverse disciplines and are committed to enhancing the education and quality of life for individuals with learning disabilities and others who experience challenges in learning.
Vision
Our vision is to increase and improve educational opportunities and quality of life options for individuals with learning disabilities and others who experience challenges in learning. To accomplish this, our vision is to include all educators, researchers, administrators and support personnel who work or interact with said individuals.
Our Strategic Goals
- Encourage evidence-based practices for individuals with learning disabilities and others who learn differently.
- Foster collaborative relationships with professionals who serve these individuals.
- Expand our audience to stakeholders who support individuals with learning disabilities and who learn differently.
- Offer high quality sessions to practitioners and individuals who serve these individuals.
- Support leadership development among professionals who serve this population.
- Advocate for an education system that values individual differences.
- Encourage and support pre-service teachers as they learn effective strategies to support these individuals.
Include Your Presentation Materials in the Conference Archive
Presenters are encouraged to preserve your presentations in the conference archive!
Submit Your [Presentation Materials] (opens in new tab)
Why Submit Your Presentation?
More exposure for your work! Presentations are searchable through Google, and you will receive reports showing how many people have downloaded your presentation.
What can you upload?
PowerPoint Slides, papers, handouts, video, audio, and any other documents you used during your presentation.
Please Note:
- All works made publicly available in the archive are required to include a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license (opens in new tab) (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Under this license, end users may share and privately adapt your work, but they must give you credit for it and ask your permission to distribute any adaptations or use your work for any commercial purpose. When you send us your materials for publication, you and any co-presenters agree to apply the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license to your work.
- All materials made publicly available must comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA (opens in new tab). For help, see the University Libraries' Digital Accessibility Guide (opens in new tab).
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