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Inclusive schoolcommunities

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This website is for you and for your school if you want to become more inclusive as a community. Here, you will find tools and steps, as well as inspiring examples.

There are different ways to use the website. You can begin at the beginning and follow all the steps, but you could start anywhere you’d like, really. It depends on your starting point and on where you’d like to go.

If you’d like some help in finding where you are, it would be a good idea to start with the Reflective tool. If you don’t know where you’d like to go, it might be a good idea to start with the Inspiring examples. If you’re wondering how to get there, then go to Taking next steps. If you first want to know more about inclusion, then go to Understanding inclusive school communities for more information. Please explore, enjoy and discover!

Webbased toolkit

Developing Inclusive School Communities

Inspiring example

HELEN BALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NOT YOURS, NOT MINE, BUT OURS

This video is about a teacher that collaborates with staff, parents, and community to develop individualized plans that focus on each student's unique skills, abilities, and interests to help them find their place among their peers in the school community.

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As a teacher of students with significant learning challenges, Amy Campbell - 2019-2020-Washington State Teacher of the Year - collaborates with staff, parents, and community to develop individualized plans that focus on each student's unique skills, abilities, and interests to help them find their place among their peers in the school community. Amy does not live in a world of deficits. She lives and teaches a world of possibilities, potential, and opportunities

"I think that you can build your own Helen Baller Elementary community. It’s your opportunities, it’s your interactions that create the inclusivity. Inclusion happens when everyone else sees their ability to include other people. " - Amy Campbell, Special Education Teacher at Helen Baller Elementary.

Reflective questions after watching the video

How can you build a network of specialists and teachers to support your students?
How and where can you address your fears and have the courage to try new pratices?
How do your everyday interactions build inclusivity in time?

Links and materials

Video about Amy Campell and her professional career, educational priciples and what she loves about teaching

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