Building Inclusive Schools: Tools and Strategies for Success

A comprehensive resource for implementing inclusive education practices, offering evidence-based strategies, tools, and real-world K-12 examples aligned with IDEA 2004 and NCLB.

Uses K-12 examples throughout the text to illustrate subjects such as curriculum planning, instructional strategies including differentiation for all students and individualized instruction, adult collaboration, peer support, student level and system evaluation and school change, translating theory and philosophy into ‘what works.’

Clarifies terminology surrounding inclusive education – legal rationale, research, and practical guidelines with current reviews of evidence-based practices for each topic addressed.

Focuses on four students representing different grade levels and having a range of disabilities, and follows them throughout the text, providing teachers and staff with clear applications of strategies reviewed.

Addresses the role of the special educator-inclusion support teacher- as well as other staff members at the school level, clarifying delivery of services for prospective teachers and schools practicing inclusion.

Showcases diverse schools, one with multi-age elementary classrooms, as well as whole school reform efforts in inclusive middle and high schools. Urban, rural and suburban schools are utilized, facilitating congruence for teachers and staff working in a variety of communities.

Provides multiple forms as development and organization tools to facilitate activities such as: site level needs assessment, instruction and curriculum adaptation, parent interview, and team planning.