Inclusive Schools Network Blog
Articles to Educate, Inspire, and Inform
Our blog is dedicated to exploring the latest trends and issues in inclusive education, offering insights and tips for educators, parents, and students who are passionate about creating inclusive learning environments.
Through a combination of personal stories, expert interviews, and evidence-based research, our blog aims to promote understanding and support for inclusive education practices.
Fire Prevention vs. Firefighting in Education Today
Research continues to affirm that when schools, families, and the community work together to support learning, children tend to succeed not just in school but also throughout life. Today many…
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What We Are Reading And Why It’s So Important Right Now!
This book is a relevant revision of a 2011 publication. The need for this book—now more than ever–is clearly stated on page 5 by the authors: “As schools and classrooms…
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What We Are Reading: Teach Like a Champion
Teach Like A Champion by Doug Lemov2010, John Wiley & Sons In the foreword to Teach Like A Champion, Norman Atkins describes the author’s mission as, “The fight for educational…
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Teach Like It’s Friday Night
What if your students had to perform every Friday night in a stadium of cheering fans? If you observe them preparing for that performance during the week, you will notice two…
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Our Global Partners: An Experience in Shared Leadership
This post was written by Mary V. Kealy, EdD, President, CASE Very often we think we are steeped in the complexities of implementing the IDEA . Hit the pause button, …
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Teacher Talk: Building Natural Peer Supports
This post was written by Nicole Gallagher, M.Ed., Conroe Independent School District The song that comes to mind when I think of peer tutoring is “With a Little Help from…
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Including Students with Disabilities: A Missing Link
In my career as a special education teacher, curriculum supervisor, and then principal, Inclusion was a priority focus; however, there always seemed to be a missing link in the process…
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Parent Perspective: You’ve Got a Friend
What is the most underutilized resource in schools today? PEERS! Peer assistance in schools has been a valid teaching strategy for as long as schools have existed. Peer programs allow…
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The Partnership Between Parents and Educators
I recognize that the phrase ‘parent involvement’ is certainly inadequate when you truly think about the importance of the relationship between the family and the educators. First, the phrase signifies…
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Systems-Level Inclusive Practices: Challenges and Solutions
Over the past year, the Inclusive Schools Network has selected a range of topics to serve as a spotlight for each month’s newsletter. These topics have typically reflected school or…
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Leadership for Inclusive Schools: A Parent’s Perspective
“Leadership is not power over others—it is power in relationship with others.” This is one of my favorite sayings about effective leaders and one that states very simply the essential…
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Parent Voices and Perspectives
This post was written by Toni Riester-Wood, Ph.D. “Public Sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” Abraham Lincoln Every single student in…
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