Re-enacting an event that has triggered conflict from each partner's perspective during couples therapy, while employing one's actual partner as an auxiliary, is a distinctive, theatrical application of psychodrama that develops perspective, promotes empathy, lowers resistance to being invalidated by disagreement and points the way to novel resolutions. Each client's enactment is followed by a role-reversed encounter between the auxiliary and the character assigned the auxiliary by the partner. Postenactment processing of video feedback facilitates collaboration and reflection by the couple. A case example illustrates the application of this method.
The use of accommodations during state and district assessments by students with disabilities is now generally accepted. Still, controversy surrounds specific accommodations that policymakers have determined change the construct measured or the comparability of scores. States and districts have given these accommodations various names, such as nonallowed accommodations, nonstandard accommodations, or modifications, to indicate that either they are not to be used or, if used, scores from them are to be treated differently. The purpose of this article is to identify the problems associated with excluding the scores of students who need nonapproved accommodations and to explore the ways in which scores from assessments taken with these accommodations can be included in system and student accountability systems.Students with disabilities who participate in state and district assessment systems are entitled to use test accommodations listed in
How does one acquire the massive financial investment needed for a fundamental re‐configuration of the core infrastructure to confront the challenges posed by climate change mitigation and adaptation and by resource scarcity and energy security? Andŕ Schneider and Daniel Wiener, CEOs of Global Energy Basel, outline their plans for the creation of a private debt fund in order for institutional investors to able to invest in graded sustainable infrastructure, bringing together private investors, development banks and other interested parties.
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