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Our work is designed to enhance academic excellence and close the achievement gap for students with disabilities through facilitating the move towards increased inclusive services. The goal is to align and increase the skills of administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers to educate students with disabilities more effectively in inclusive settings. Listed below are a menu of services we offer along with associated time recommendations. We would be happy to customize these services to meet your specific needs.
Creating and Maintaining Inclusive Schools for ALL
For teachers, administrators, parents, or CSE director
This interactive presentation is for anyone in a school setting who is interested in creating more inclusive schools. Filled with useful ideas and strategies we will cover how to create inclusive schools and the dramatic achievement results of an inclusive shift for students with and without disabilities.
Creating and Maintaining Inclusive Schools for ALL
For administrators
This is for all school leaders who seek to build inclusive schools and communities. Filled with practical ideas and strategies, we will explore inclusive education and examine issues of school reform, the law and the literature supporting inclusive education. We will share concrete steps to help make inclusive school dreams a reality.
Big Inclusion Kick Off
This is the perfect way to kick off the school year. Julie and Jenna will provide exciting and motivating presentations for your entire school staff with all new updated content.
Differentiation
A three-part differentiation series to help educators reach the academic, behavioral, and communication diversity in your school system.
Active and Engaging Instruction
We offer a presentation on how to get your content to be more lively, engaging and downright fun!
Supporting Students Whose Behavior Challenges Us
Have us come for 1, 2, or 3 sessions about how to design humanistic behavioral supports. If you are booking for 2020 fall, you can align these presentations with the new book by Kate and Julie.
Lesson Design and Planning Support
This work helps educators to answer the complex question—How do you design effective, engaging differentiated lessons for the inclusive classroom. Educators bring actual lessons and do an extreme lesson design makeover. Best with 1, 2 or 3 days.
Re-Thinking the IEP Process
This is a hands-on workshop where we help create a more positive approach to IEP writing, goal setting, and running meetings.
Disability Specific Supports
This presentation can be customized to support educators working to effectively include students with a particular disability label. For example, the focus of a presentation could be on how to include students with autism more effectively.
Book Club (Co-Teaching, Inclusive Handbooks, Challenging Behavior)
We can help you to organize and lead exciting and engaging book clubs with teachers, administrators, or paraprofessionals depending on which book you choose. We can lead clubs in person or remotely, or we can provide you with all the materials and information to lead your own.
Paraprofessionals: How to support in inclusive classrooms
This presentation provides paraprofessionals with best practices and strategies for supporting students inclusively and collaborating with general and special educators effectively.
Paraprofessionals: Invisible and faded support training
We work with educators and supervisors to teach paraprofessionals specific skills and strategies and then schedule 30 minute observations and coaching sessions to provide feedback and support to paraprofessionals regarding the use of new classroom strategies and student specific supports.
Autism Specific Supports
For educators
This presentation is perfect for anyone educator who happens to be working with a student with the label of autism. The focus of this presentation is how to include students with autism more effectively.
Heartset Approach
Dr. Julie Causton and Dr. Jenna Rufo present a new way to view behavior in the inclusive setting. Rather than a traditional approach based on rewards and punishment, they share effective behavioral strategies grounded in a foundation of love and respect.
Problem Solving and Coaching Sessions
For teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, or CSE directors (1-10 days)
We provide focused observations and problem solving sessions with teams related to classroom practice, specific student support, and scheduling. This works best when we can observe first in a classroom (30 minute observation) and then work with the team to problem solve. Many districts have us come and spend a full day working with many different teams and we can even schedule remote debrief if necessary. We now also offer coaching and problem solving from practicing Inclusion Facilitators, Co-Teachers, and Related Service Providers who work with our team. These practitioners can coach in person or remotely.
Inclusive Classroom Makeover
For educators (3 days-not consecutive)
We work collaboratively with you to create a student-centric space that considers lighting, sensory needs, movement needs, flexibility and choice utilizing cost-efficient and research-based materials and ideas. You set the budget and we provide an inclusive classroom redesign!
Direct Coaching with teams and Problem Solving
For educators (3 days-not consecutive)
We provide focused observations and problem solving sessions with teams related to classroom practice, specific student support, and scheduling. This works best when we can observe first in a classroom (30 minute observation) and then work with the team to problem solve. Many districts have us come and spend a full day working with many different teams and we can even schedule remote debrief if necessary. We now also offer coaching and problem solving from practicing Inclusion Facilitators, Co-Teachers, and Related Service Providers who work with our team. These practitioners can coach in person or remotely.
More services for districts who are very serious about moving towards more inclusive service provision.
Service Delivery Review
We provide a comprehensive review of special education practices at the district level in order to identify barriers to the LRE and student success. We develop recommendations for district procedures, use of human resources, classroom practice and professional development. Review procedure includes district visits, data collection, data analysis, written report and presentation.
Inclusive Education Administrative Retreat (for year 1 and 2 after review)
We provide a highly engaging and customizable 1-3 day retreat for districts interested in energizing administrators and creating a cohesive vision for inclusive education and reform in the district.
Developing a Vision and Action Plan
We can come and work with your administrative team for a day to help craft a vision and develop a clear action plan for moving in an inclusive direction.
Scheduling Support
We can help your district schedule faculty, staff and students to create a working, inclusive schedule.
Resource Mapping
We can create customized building and district resource maps so that your team can visualize the resources you have. We can then provide support about restructuring and understanding your budget.
Building Strong Co-Teaching Partnerships
This work provides educators with a myriad of ways to improve their co-teaching relationship, including how to make planning for differentiation more efficient in order to successfully meet the needs of all of students.
Legal Supports
Getting comfortable with special education law – Bring in our special education legal expert to help your district or school get clear on the law.
Summer Leadership Institute
Send administrators and teacher leaders to an interactive three-day institute. Presents the latest research, hosts national speakers and provides key lessons from practice that are necessary to create equitable and excellent schools for all students. The institute places a particular focus on the inclusion of students with disabilities, special education, and issues of belonging and learning for all students.