Tired of confusion, pushback, or slow progress around inclusion?
Take the clear, actionable step your school needs right now to create truly inclusive classrooms!
This free handout cuts through the confusion with a clear definition to create schools where every student achieves the desired outcomes.
This resource isn’t just another PDF—it’s your roadmap to making inclusion real, effective, and sustainable.
Listen and Learn:
- How to cut through the confusion with a clear, shared definition of inclusion—essential for aligning staff, families, and teams.
- The nine essential elements needed to tackle common challenges like resistance to change, inconsistent practices, and exclusion.
- Use our definition of inclusive education to lead meaningful conversations and improve classroom practices.
Talking Points For Families
Inside, you’ll find more than 80 talking points that help explain what inclusion looks like, why it matters, and how it supports children, siblings, and families as a whole. You can use these points to:
- clarify what you want for your child
- prepare for IEP meetings or school conversations
- help other family members understand inclusion
- share language with friends or caregivers
- advocate without having to “translate” jargon
This guide is meant to make things easier—not more complicated—and to give you words that honor your child, your values, and your family’s hopes.
Download it, highlight what resonates, and bring it with you into any space where decisions are being made about your child’s learning and belonging.
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Explore our family resources to get prepared to advocate for an inclusive IEP that reflects your whole child and provides them with access to general education settings, peers, effective supports and services, and meaningful goals.
FREE ARTICLE:
5 Strategies for Ensuring an Inclusive Placement for Your Child
- Download Achieving Inclusion: 5 Strategies for Ensuring an Inclusive Placement for Your Child by Dr. Causton, Dr. Kate. MacLeod, Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, and Dr. Christi Kasa
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- A Summary of critical inclusion legal cases
FREE CHECKLIST:
Want our most powerful checklist for ensuring inclusive services?
- Effective strategies to try before even considering a pull-out setting
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- A must-have checklist for every IEP meeting!
- Get everyone thinking outside the box!
- Creative solutions to providing services and supports
- Finally, a common starting place for parents and educators
FREE GUIDE:
Clarify IEP language and get every team member on the same page.
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Plain-language definitions of common IEP terms that are often misunderstood or misused
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Clear examples that show what each term looks like in practice
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Support for inclusive communication between families, educators, and specialists
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Reduce confusion and stress during IEP meetings
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Confidence to ask questions and advocate effectively for student needs
What Families
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“Inclusive Schooling gave me so many tools to help me to advocate! We used to go into my daughter’s IEP meeting thinking they would just tell us the plan for the year… I would listen and leave. Now we participate in the meetings, I am not afraid to ask for what [my daughter] deserves. Her life has dramatically changed…for the better in school and out!! Thank You!!!”
We have been learning from Inclusive Schooling since our daughter was in primary school. Our daughter wouldn't be who she is without them, and we couldn't be more grateful that their work is now more accessible to districts than ever!
The chair of the IEP meeting said, “We have reached a standstill…” She looked at us and said, “Unless you have any ideas, I don’t think we can make this happen this year.” I got out that list of supports and services and said… “I do have several ideas about how to make this happen.” At first you could have heard a pin drop, and then the team rolled up their sleeves and began to brainstorm… using the list. It became a question of HOW, not IF. And once we passed IF… With the right resources the teachers had no trouble with the how. Thank you for these resources!”
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