Inclusive Schools Week 2012
December 3-7, 2012

Thank you for all of your support in making Inclusive Schools Week 2011 a success. Please mark your calendars for the December 2012 event.

Inclusive Schools Week and Inclusive Schools Network products are available all year! Order your pencils, mugs, pens and other products that support inclusive schools here.

About Inclusive Schools Week

Inclusive Schools Week is an annual event sponsored by the Inclusive Schools Network (ISN) at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), which is held each year during the first week in December. Since its inception in 2001, Inclusive Schools Week has celebrated the progress that schools have made in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population, including students who are marginalized due to disability, gender, socio-economic status, cultural heritage, language preference and other factors. The Week also provides an important opportunity for educators, students and parents to discuss what else needs to be done in order to ensure that their schools continue to improve their ability to successfully educate all children.

Inclusive Schools Week Chalk Talk Interview

How to Celebrate

You care about the dignity of all children—those with disabilities and those from diverse backgrounds—and you know that your school and community can do a better job of meeting their needs through the use of inclusive educational practices. We encourage you to take the lead in coordinating Inclusive Schools Week in your school, school district, or community. Thousands of individuals—teachers, family members, and schools administrators—local, state, and national organizations and advocacy groups, and entire school districts have enthusiastically stepped up to this task—and have found this experience to be extremely rewarding in terms of its impact on children and youth.

Here are some of the free Inclusive Schools Network materials that schools and communities used in planning past Celebrations, and that you can use to promote awareness about the importance of inclusive education year-round in your own school and community:

• Sample Celebration Plan Secondary

• Celebration Planning Form (Blank)

• Celebration Kit 

  Download a free copy of our celebration kit for hundreds of ideas to celebrate Inclusive Schools Week! 

• 2012 Media Kit  

  Promotional Products

• Order materials to support your celebration!

• 2012 Press Release

  Invite the media to your event! Write a letter-to-the-editor or an op-ed piece in your local newspaper! Post announcements about your celebration plans in school and community newsletters, bulletin boards, or on local TV! 

• 50-100 Word Boiler Plates

• Sample Letters to the Editor

• Media Tips

• Proclamation

  Issue a Proclamation declaring December 3-7, 2012 Inclusive Schools Week in your community!

If you have planning and promotional tools that you would like to share with Inclusive Schools Network, or suggestions for Celebration Ideas, please email support@inclusiveschools.org.