{"id":2368,"date":"2010-02-11T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:12:19","slug":"parents-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/parents-leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Leading the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Parents%20Leading%20the%20Way\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 15px;float:left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/images\/bruce.dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/>State parent leader, Susan Bruce, will be a featured speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.sc.gov\/news\/more.cfm?articleID=1432\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cParents Leading the Way\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u2013 the 2010 South Carolina Parent Leadership Conference this weekend at South Carolina State University.<\/p>\n<p>As a parent advocate and a regional education coordinator for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proparents.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">PRO*Parents of South Carolina<\/span><\/a>, Susan travels to 17 counties in the state while conducting workshops for parents of students with disabilities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She has written articles published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/subscribe.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Special Ed Advocate<\/span><\/a> from Wrightslaw, sharing her belief that building collaborative relationships between parents, educators and administrators creates better outcomes for all children.<\/p>\n<p>Susan is the mother of three children with learning disabilities. After spending years researching and learning about IDEA and about her children&#8217;s disabilities, Susan has spent the last three years applying all she has learned. She&#8217;s now a &#8220;force to be reckoned with&#8221; when advocating for children.<\/p>\n<p>Read Susan&#8217;s success story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.susan.success.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">From Victim to a Mighty Force: The Numbers Do Not Lie<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.susan.success.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/advo.susan.success.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Susan also created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/rti.parent.guide.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Parent&#8217;s Guide to Response to Intervention (RTI)<\/span><\/a> that highlights important RTI issues parents need to be aware of. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/rti.parent.guide.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/rti.parent.guide.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February is National Parent Leadership Month in SC, when organizations recognize parents demonstrating leadership and holding leadership roles in their communities, homes and children\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is a joint project of the South Carolina Department of Education, the South Carolina School Improvement Council, Parents Anonymous\u00ae of SC, Inc., SC State, ProParents, The Children\u2019s Trust of SC, SC Parent Information and Resource Centers, and the state\u2019s Parent Teacher Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State parent leader, Susan Bruce, will be a featured speaker at \u201cParents Leading the Way\u201d \u2013 the 2010 South Carolina Parent Leadership Conference this weekend at South Carolina State University. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/parents-leading-the-way\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,57,529,11,136],"tags":[531,532,62,148,530],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-fape","category-parent-rights-responsibilities","category-special-ed-law","category-strategies","tag-parents-leading-the-way","tag-pro-parents-of-sc","tag-rti","tag-success-story","tag-susan-bruce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}