Your Inclusive School

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Your Inclusive School

• CESA 7
• Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction (CAI)
  Learning Network
• School Improvement Services
• Judy K. Sargent, Ph.D., Director

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Inclusive Schools
Are your kids engaged, included and achieving?
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Access to the General Curriculum
Functional Curriculum for 1-2 CD Students

• If we agree that
• All children can learn
• All children have a right to an education with
  the peers in their community
• The school has the responsibility for addressing
  the unique learning needs of children

WKCE
Guaranteed ViableGeneral Curriculum
Special Education Services
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If Student Rights are Clear

• Why do we
• write IEP goals that create wider and wider
  achievement gaps?

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Why do we

• remove so many students from the general
  education curriculum?

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Why do we

• replace the general curriculum with a special
  lower and slower class?

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Why do we
schedule special education students last
after all other schedules are set?
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Why do we

• not train our special education teachers to
  work with and within the general education
  classroom and curriculum?

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Why do we

• not train our general classroom teachers to
  team teach, collaborate and differentiate
  instruction with their special education
  colleagues?

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Why do we

• put our needs for tradition and convenience
  ahead of the needs of students with disabilities?

T.T.W.W.A.D.I.
Thats The Way Weve Always Done It!
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Why do we

• leave supervision/evaluation of special
  education teachers off the principals set of
  responsibilities?

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Why do we

• have no idea about what happens in special
  education classes?

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Where is your staff in the progression of change?