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Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak
INCLUSION THOUGHT LEADER
EDUCATORS’ EDUCATOR
FIERCE PLAY ADVOCATE
A highly sought-after speaker, accomplished author, and educators’ educator. Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak began her career as an early interventionist and then spent 16 years as a tenured professor at Kent State University. Since 2013 she has followed her true passion for designing and delivering transformative professional development. As a result, she has accumulated over 50,000 hours of helping educators and leaders work from a place of compassion, hope, and love in locations from Cincinnati to Singapore.
Dr. Julie Causton
MAGICAL INCLUSION EXPERT
PROLIFIC AUTHOR
KEYNOTE STORYTELLER
A best selling author, inspiring speaker, and inclusion advocate, Dr. Julie Causton began her career as an educator and then 14 years as a tenured professor at Syracuse University. In 2012 she founded Inclusive Schooling, a premiere company solely devoted to delivering professional development which transforms schools and lives. She has spent the past 25 years nearly obsessed with discovering innovative practices and teaching others about inclusive education through her wildly engaging presentations.
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Inclusion & The Law-Myths & Realities (click to access resources)
Presenter: Pat Radel, Esq.
- Website: https://www.getnicklivingston.com/attorneys
- Pat's Blog: Appropriately Ambitious
- Pat's Email: pgradelesq@gmail.com
Key PPT slides with 10 myths [pdf]
Capturing Your Learning handout [pdf]
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What to do instead
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PARA-BYTES: EVERYONE GETS WHAT THEY NEED, JUST WHEN THEY NEED IT.
Introducing Para-Bytes – the solution to your professional development needs for paraprofessionals! We have taken the most powerful evidence-based practices from what we learned as researchers, professors, and professional development providers, and culled it, organized it, and boiled it down to the essential ingredients, and created an invaluable PD offering.
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everything every educator needs to know about inclusion.
Inclusion-Bytes is an engaging and practical solution to your professional development needs around the topic of creating inclusive schools! At the heart of Inclusion-Bytes is the belief that students with disabilities have the right to be educated thoughtfully in general education classrooms with meaningful access to general education content and full engagement with peers. View Full Table of Contents Here.
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Discover the power of inclusive education from the very beginning of school and unlock the full potential of each and every child. With Circles From the Start, we enhance the co-teaching skills of early childhood professionals, foster play-based learning, and create inclusive experiences that transcend the boundaries of outdated separate special education practices. This innovative and comprehensive professional development series is designed and delivered by renowned ECE inclusive experts, where each session offers an engaging experience that will leave educators inspired, equipped with valuable resources and key strategies, and ready to support their youngest learners inclusively. Circles From the Start will give educators the knowledge and tools necessary to not only help young children love learning, feel included, and help educators find more fulfillment and joy in their own teaching.
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The research is clear: students with disabilities do better academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally, and experience better post-secondary outcomes when educated in inclusive settings.
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