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This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.
Part I Introduction to Inclusion
The Four H's - Dr. Marsha Forest (11 minutes)
The Philosophy of Inclusion: ABC's and Two Roads: The Road to Exclusion and
the Road to Inclusion - Dr. Jack Pearpoint (23 minutes)
Thoughts on Disabilities, Differences and Giftedness - Ms. Judith Snow (25 minutes)
This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.
Part II Strategies
Curriculum of Caring (2 minutes)
Quaker Meeting Circle (12 minutes)
Qualitative Evaluation Procedure (3 minutes)
The Six Hats (5 minutes)
Circle of Friends (15 minutes)
This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.
Part III MAPS & PATHS
MAPS - Making Action Plans: A Long-Term Visionary Process and a Plan to Achieve the Dream and Avoid the Nightmare (24 minutes)
PATH - Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope: A Problem Solving Strategy, a Visionary Process, and a Plan to Get Where You Want to Be in One Year (27 minutes)
To provide an encouraging introduction to the inclusion process by profiling four students successfully included into pre-school, elementary school, and junior college.
This program has four chapters. They focus on Cami, age 3, in pre-school; Erin, age 5, in kindergarten; Jackie, age 9, in the third grade; and Joan, age 19, in junior college. Choices tells the stories of these students and their families, teachers, classmates, schools, and communities, and enables viewers to observe each student's successful inclusion into general education classrooms.
To emphasize the need for inclusion into school and the community so that children with severe, as well as more moderate, disabilities grow up with the relationships and support networks required for independent and fulfilled adulthood.
This program examines how inclusion often begins at school for children of varying ages and with disabilities of varying severity. It is about Betsey, a 12-year-old in the sixth grade, and Larissa, three years old and in a community nursery school. Both girls participate with friends in community activities. The program explores the encouraging effect that the girls' participation has on their families' views of their children's future.
To discuss issues concerning peeople with disabilities, and their families, and address the basic concept of freindship.
Stories and ideas about friendship, human rights, self-advocacy, and inclusion of all people.
This program highlights Bryce, a 12-year-old child with disabilities, and and his family. The program addresses broader societal issues. With Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forest, Darryl Thomas, Janet Thomas, Bryce Thomas, and many more.
To offer practical information and advice to students, teachers and administrators and to inspire an inclusive vision for people of all kinds.
This Chicago high school celebrates differences in nationality, race, ethnicity, and language, and has simply taken the next natural step - including students with disabilities. Process is everything. Teamwork is essential. Learn from teachers, students, and administrators in this documentary video.
To address concerns about inclusive education, nurture faith in the possibility of inclusion, and impart a sense of its great rewards.
This popular video focuses on teachers and administrators. Through interviews with those who provide inclusive opportunities, it addresses the realities of implementation, strategies for effective inclusion, and the necessity of support systems.
To document one child's real-life inclusion into her neighborhood school over the course of two school years.
This documentary begins when Heather, a little girl with Down syndrome, is eight years old and in "special ed." It follows her through two years and into the fourth grade in "regular school."
Seeing is believing and this two-year, longitudinal study enables viewers to watch Heather blossom. It also provides the opportunity to watch her teachers, principal, family, and classmates, work together and grow along with her.
To provide highlights of a weeklong Inclusion Workshop conducted by noted inclusion specialists Dr. Marsha Forest, Dr. Jack Pearpoint, and Ms. Judith Snow.
This set offers ready access to an acclaimed presentation on creating inclusive communities. Together We're Better introduces the possibilities of inclusion to parents, educators, and communities generally. It provides a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. Drs. Forest and Pearpoint and Ms.. Snow demonstrate ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve the goal. They offer audiences a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering inclusive environments.
1: Intro to Inclusion (59 min.), introduces the philosophy of inclusion and the idea of "giftedness."
2: Strategies (37 min.), provides strategies for enhancing the inclusiveness of schools.
3: MAPS & PATHS (51 min.), demonstrates on stage the MAPS and PATH processes.
Leaders at the Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District decided that to meet achievement and accountability standards mandated in federal education law, they had to do something very different. If students with IEPs continued to be educated largely in special classes and resource rooms, those students would have a difficult path to success. Releasing the Power illustrates how the Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District researched, created, and implemented a district-wide co-teaching initiative. Today CMS is an exemplary model of what can happen when a district releases the power of two.
First on this DVD, CMS Superintendent and his top deputy for Special Education discuss the district's inclusive practices and co-teaching journey from conception through implementation. Then you'll hear CMS principals discuss, in practical detail, the expectations, challenges, and supports necessary to ensure all students are learning in co-taught classrooms.
By Alan Gartner, Kerzner Lipsky
This production provides a comprehensive framework for administrators, teachers and staff developers to build an effective schoolwide approach that focuses on "service" rather than "location" in teaching special education students. Using clips from actual classrooms. the framework takes on additional meaning as its main features are seen "in action." This is true theory in practice and includes reference to RTI.
The viewer will, by watching the video be able to:
Understand the concept of a "whole school" approach to inclusion
Recognize the value that an effective school-wide approach has on all students
Observe best inclusionary practices, based upon experience and current research that support growth of all students
Identify the components of effective co-teaching, and be familiar with print resources from the manual that support on-going development of collaborative teams
Recognize that inclusive environments support the needs of a diverse learning community, such as ELL, at risk, etc.
Identify roles of all stakeholders in the implementation of a whole school approach
Winning teams execute sound strategies and good coaching. It is no different in today's inclusive classrooms where teamwork and collaboration are essential for success.
Join Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker from the University of Central Florida as they provide winning strategies for general and special education staff working in inclusive environments. These strategies not only improve team functioning, but also raise student achievement.
Utilizing a sports metaphor including pre-game and post-game analyses, Hines and Dieker take you into elementary classrooms where they present and review strategies that empower inclusive teams to more effectively:
Manage Their Time
Use Their Expertise
Collaborate on Content
Understand Their Roles & Responsibilities
Learn how to execute winning Co-Teaching, Facilitative Support and Paraeducator staffing patterns and move your inclusion program forward. An informative, reality-based, fun-filled and practical DVD that can be used for general staff development as well as for enhancing current team practice and/or coaching new teams for success.
Inclusion of students with disabilities at all levels is a challenge, one that has been intensified by the mandates of NCLB and the reauthorized IDEA. More specifically, NCLB states that students with disabilities will be counted in calculation of annual yearly progress, and thus must be proficient in curriculum content; and IDEA '04 states that special education teachers must have certification in specific content areas in order to be highly qualified to provide self-contained instruction to students with disabilities.
These two legislative actions have a tremendous impact on teachers, schools, families and, most importantly, secondary students with disabilities. Furthermore, they make it essential for secondary teachers to know what is working in effective, inclusive schools across the country.
This exciting and practical video is specifically designed for those educators who are either developing or currently working to include students with mild to moderate disabilities in secondary classrooms.
The viewer will:
Understand the key components of effective secondary inclusive instruction
Learn practical ideas to meet the needs of a range of learners
Observe interdisciplinary teams of teachers address issues such as instruction, curricular development and grading
Learn how secondary schools are meeting state and local standards by providing universally designed curriculum for all learners
Understand how the learning environment impacts outcomes, including:
1. How co-teaching can be used to meet the educational needs of a wide range of learners
2. How administrators, teachers, families and students work together in inclusive schools to produce effective outcomes
The Problem of Scale
High schools have been the bastions of tradition and resistant to implementing inclusive practices. Drs. Marilyn Friend and Leonard Burrello, have visited North Central High School over years, admiring their exemplars of co-teaching in English, math, foreign language, and science. During their last visit, they learned about the tipping point that led to a transformation of the entire philosophy to a concept they call Universal Access. Taking a high school to scale is what Elmore describes as "innovations that require large scale changes in the core of educational practice." He argues it seldom occurs and it seldom lasts very long. North Central is the exception.
The Context
North Central High is a comprehensive 3,200-student high school with a very diverse student body. It has about 320 identified students, of which 250 are identified as students with mild disabilities.
The Strategy
On this program, the principal and his staff describe the tipping point and their engagement of the staff in transforming their high school from a set of parallel systems for typical and disabled students into one dedicated to assisting all students to meet higher expectations. The major components of their story are:
A development of a communal vocabulary to guide their communication.
Structures that support collaborationˇXincluding a focus on the curriculum and time.
A student profile document developed by a building committee of general education teachers.
Co-teaching between general and special education teachers within academic departments.
A Learning Center to serve all students. (The DVD documents the LC's evolution.)
Communicating within a professional community with parents.
DVD (With Digital Viewing Guide) / 2001 / 35 minutes
Classrooms have always had students who learn at different rates, who have prior knowledge about the curriculum, who have varying abilities and bring different backgrounds and baggage into classroom. When students with disabilities are included, the range of those differences widens. In order to reach every student, teachers may need to make choices that they haven't confronted before.
This DVD provides a conceptual model for adapting curriculum across the learning spectrum. The framework challenges teachers' existing repertoire and arms them with additional approaches to enhance student learning. The framework is divided into the four steps teachers take when planning units of study:
1. The Process of Teaching
2. Practices, Decision Making, and Planning
3. Fine Tune for Individual Learners
4. Refine, Reflect, Assess and Evaluate
Each step has examples of at least three adaptations.
Teachers from elementary and secondary programs describe the adaptations that have proven successful. These adaptations recognize the need for student variation in learning and instruction.
Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky, Ph.D. and Alan Gartner, Ph.D.
The move toward higher standards in our nation's schools has raised a major dilemma for educators committed to the inclusion of students with disabilities. How can these students truly succeed in a learning environment where academic standards and formalized testing are increasing? Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky and Alan Gartner, from the National Center on Educational Restructuring and Inclusion at the City University of New York, address many of the critical issues facing educators who are supporting students with disabilities in inclusive settings. Through a dynamic and powerful presentation Drs. Lipsky and Gartner discuss:
The Consequences of Higher Standards
The Seven Factors of Successful Inclusion
The Reauthorization of I.D.E.A
The Restructuring of Our Schools
Visit schools across the country and observe first-hand how the learning needs of all students are being successfully met in general education environments. Learn how special education is a service not a location. Understand that the inclusion of students is not determined solely by where they are placed, but by their full and complete access to the same curriculum as the general education population. Whether a regular or special educator, this video is a must for pre-service and inservice training.