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Including Every Child
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Description of Including Every Child This book explores five specific practices that have been critical to the development of a successful inclusion program at the Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School O’Hearn: making inclusion a way of thinking, collaboration and teamwork, assessment tools, consult meetings, and curriculum modifications The O’Hearn has been a full-inclusion school for over a decade, during which time principal Bill Henderson has repeatedly been recognized for his leadership in the field. Through collaboration and development of a common language to identify needs and modify curricula, the O’Hearn has been successful at including children of all abilities and helping them succeed. As one testimony to this success, in 2001, O’Hearn fourth graders had the highest score in Boston on the English MCAS exam and the second highest score on the math MCAS. Throughout the 2000-01 school year, a group of eight teachers and specialists worked with the Project for School Innovation (PSI) to explore and document the many elements of their school’s effective inclusion practices. Some of these of teachers have been at the O’Hearn since it became a full-inclusion school over a decade ago. Others have been at the school only one or two years. All share a commitment to the ideas and practices that make the O’Hearn welcoming to students with all levels of ability and all levels of need. The lessons that came out of this process are documented in Including Every Child, which is the second how-to book in PSI’s By Teachers for Teachers series.
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Table of Contents for Including Every Child
2. Inclusion as a Way of Thinking
3. Collaboration: Working Together as a Part of the
Routine
4. The Ecological Inventory: Assessing What’s Needed
5. Consult Meetings: Formalizing the Discussion
6. Curriculum Modification: Putting it to Work in the
Classroom
7. Worksheets
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Praise for Including Every Child Books, Videos and Workshops
The presenters were very knowledgeable.
I had a chance to read the Including Every Child
book this week. I thought it was very well written and easy to
follow. Your suggestions make sense and the worksheets could
really help teachers and therapists by providing that common
language that is missing.
The presenters are realistic about what teachers deal
with.
This workshop helped me see that we are on the right track
towards inclusion. |
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PSI Can Help You Implement These Strategies:
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Workshop/Presentation Roundup The Including Every Child team has led presentations at: • Fall River Public Schools, Fall River, MA • Everett Public Schools, Everett, MA • Neighborhood House Charter School, Dorchester, MA • Conservatory Lab Charter School, Dorchester, MA • Oliver W. Holmes Elementary School, Dorchester, MA |
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