Improve Inclusion with Evidence-Based Practices

Because students enter the classroom with a wide range of skills, backgrounds, preferences, and goals, it is in everyone’s best interest to structure the classroom environment to well amended for student success. In this sense, the natural variety of student strengths and needs in the classroom is accounted for and embraced to serve as the central domains of a safe, predictable, caring, supportive, and ambitious classroom environment. These five Domains form the backbone of the Inclusive Classroom Framework (ICF). Evidence-based practices are then allocated to each of these Domains, and implementation steps and procedures are detailed to create a framework that increases the likelihood that educators have the structure they need to implement their selected practice(s) successfully.

Who Should Attend?

Teams of general and special educators, service providers, administrators, and anyone interested in effective instructional practices. 

Facilitators

This training is a collaboration between the Kansas Inclusive Learning and Teaching (KILT) project and Cultivate Education. The facilitators are Chris Perry, Executive Director of Cultivate Education and Melynda Kaifes, Lead Co-Teaching and Coaching Project Strand Facilitator with KILT. 

Supporting Resources

• A free digital copy of The Inclusive Classroom Framework Workbook
• To build background knowledge, there is an optional 3-module course on MyInfinitec
• Live Coaching Sessions after the training
    

Approved for 4 hours of continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

Participants: 

• will acquire a better understanding of evidence-based practices that create a classroom environment which is inclusive to a wide range of student needs and aspirations
• will create an action plan by completing an implementation self-reflection on current environmental practices