Inclusion Resources
Getting Started
- The Evolution of Inclusion (5 minute video)
- Why Inclusion links from Supporting Inclusive Practices
- Watch Forget Me Not, a documentary about one family’s fight for inclusion (available free through Marin libraries with Hoopla)
For Parents
- Read books with your children that include people with disabilities
- Inclusive Education Project (education, legal education and advocacy for families)
- Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center
- Disability Rights California
- California Disability Resources and Advocacy Organizations - Olmstead Rights
For Educators and Administrators
- Grant Funding
- All Means All Inclusion Grant (hosed by DSE)
- Supporting Inclusive Practices (SIP) (via CA Department of Education)
- Resources and Professional Development
- Resources to Engage Families (Seeds of Partnership)
- Early Childhood Inclusion
- Universal Design for Learning
- Getting started with UDL
- Free on-demand courses (see bottom of page)
- Training & implementation resources on Universal Design for Learning from Novak Education
- UDL Guidelines from CAST
- CDE Content Lead on UDL, AT, AAC: Open Access Project
- CA UDL Coalition
- Books for students (provided by Changing Perspectives)
- Professional reading
- A Summary of the Evidence on Inclusive Education
- Undoing Ableism: Teaching about Disability in K-12 Classrooms by Susan Baglieri and Priya Lalvani
- Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with UDL by Allison Posey & Katie Novak
- The Inclusion Toolbox: Strategies and Techniques for All Teachers by Jennifer Kurth & Megan Gross
- Inclusion in Action: Practical Strategies to Modify Your Curriculum by Nicole Eredics
- California’s Progress Towards Achieving ONE SYSTEM: Reforming Education to Serve All Students
- Websites
- Quick Tips to Facilitating a More Inclusive Classroom
- Virtual inclusion Conference for California educators and administrators (each May)
- Past recordings available
- Equity and Disability Inclusion video series
- Equity-based MTSS from SWIFT
- Podcasts & short videos
For PTA Leaders
- National PTA Position Statement on the Education of Children with Disabilities
- Let’s Talk About Inclusive Meetings (National PTA Webinar)
- Inclusive meetings checklist from Cornell
- What is Abelism (National PTA Webinar)
- Building a new playground? Info on inclusive playground design:
- Inclusive playgrounds vs accessible playgrounds (from Playworld)
- Why is inclusion in playground important?
c. Inclusive Play Design Guide from Accessible Playground.net
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