National Inclusive Schools Week Dec. 5 - 9


Kits, curriculum, conferences, drawing for free resources

National Inclusive Schools Week(tm) is sponsored by the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative and Education Development Center, Inc.

From the emailed newsletter:


Welcome to NISW News!
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Volume 1, No. 2, November 2005

National Inclusive Schools Week(tm) highlights and celebrates the progress our
nation's schools have made in providing a supportive and quality education
to all students, particularly those who have disabilities and those from
culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. It 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 and youth.

NISW News is your source for updates and information about the Week-and
other resources and events related to building more welcoming and supportive
schools and communities.

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We encourage you to forward this newsletter to others!
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Great things happen in inclusive schools.

Inclusive schools benefit all the students-not just those with disabilities. Research has proven that students with disabilities learn more in the general education classroom. Also, a very important need for children is met. This is the need for friendships with children of the same age. Students without disabilities also learn how to be compassionate and accept other people who are a little different. This is America-we come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities. Inclusive schools reflect this idea!

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What great things are happening in your inclusive school or community?
Share your thoughts, stories, and experiences at www.inclusiveschools.org
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NISW Update:

"Bridging the Gap: Achievement for All" now available!

This new supplemental resource to the 2005 Celebration Kit will help educators, families, and community members better understand the causes of the achievement gap and ways they can help narrow it. They will also discover a number of valuable resources on study skills, culturally responsive education, learning-styles assessments, and student self-determination. Free copies may be obtained from http://www.inclusiveschools.org


Order your celebration materials today!
Enter a drawing to attend a summer institute on "Closing the Achievement Gap"

With National Inclusive Schools Week just two weeks away, we encourage you to place your orders for celebration materials as soon as possible. Posters, bumper stickers, stickers, and pencils are available for purchase and complete ordering information is available on http:// www.inclusiveschools.org. By placing your order now, you will be entered into a drawing to attend an exciting Summer Institute presented by Sopris West Educational Services. The 2006 institutes will focus on "Closing the Achievement Gap" and take place at various resorts across the country-choose the location that interests you! Sopris West is offering three free registrations as part of this special National Inclusive Schools Week promotion. For more information about the institutes, visit: http://www.bettereducator.com/conf_si.asp


How will you be celebrating the Week?
Enter a drawing for free books on inclusive education!

Please send us details about your celebration plans, and we will post them on our Web site for others to read and enjoy. Email us at nisw@edc.org . Send us the details by December 8 and you automatically will be entered in a drawing for complimentary books from two leading educational publishers, Brookes Publishing and Sopris West. Special thanks to both of these companies for their generous donations!
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Extra! Extra!

Other exciting news in inclusive education

Equal Treatment, Equal Access: Raising Awareness about People with Disabilities and Their Struggles for Equal Rights
Lesson plans for students grades K-12

The Anti-Defamation League recently released a curriculum unit that seeks to challenge myths and stereotypes about people with disabilities and to promote awareness of various forms of disability. Lessons 1-3 explore a broad range of physical disabilities with elementary students. Lesson 4 introduces middle school students to the science behind learning disabilities, and seeks to remove the stigma around this invisible disability by engaging students in an exploration of multiple intelligence and the broad range of human learning styles. Designed for high school students, lesson 5 explores the historical legacy of bias and discrimination to ward people with disabilities, and learn about the self-advocacy and self-determination of disability rights activists. Available for free from http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/fall_2005/


The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities presents
Increasing School Holding Power for All Students
A telephone seminar with Dr. María Cuca Robledo Montecel
December 8, 2005 * 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

U.S. high schools lose more than one third of their students before graduation, and the cumulative impact of this attrition affects every person. This teleseminar will present a new framework for transforming schools. Participants will learn how communities and schools can work together, which school factors are key to student success based on research and IDRA experience, and an example of the power of shifting from a deficit view to one of valuing youth. Register by calling 1-800-775-7654 or online at http://www.dropoutprevention.org/NDPC-SD/.

A Meaningful Place for All
National Conference on Disability Inclusion, National Service, and
Volunteerism
December 8-10, 2005 * Alexandria, VA

This three-day conference offers a unique opportunity to bring representatives of the disability community and the Corporation for National and Community Service network together to recognize successes in the recruitment and support of individuals with disabilities as active members in national service, identify innovative strategies and share effective practices and lessons learned for future activities, hear from the many members and XSvolunteers with disabilities about their successful experience and contributions, and much more. For more information or to register visit: http://www.serviceandinclusion.org


Quest to Reach the Summit
PEAK Parent Center's Inclusive Education Conference
January 19-21, 2006 * Denver, CO

The Peak Parent Center celebrates its 20th anniversary with a conference on inclusive education. The mission of PEAK Parent Center is to ensure that individuals with disabilities lead rich, active lives and participate as full members of their schools and communities. For more information, visit http://www.peakparent.org/


AIM 2006 Leadership Symposium
Building Professional Learning Communities by Looking at Student Work
July 17-19, 2006 * Atlanta, GA

During this three-day workshop hosted by Education Development Center's AIM for Results, participants will explore the theory and research behind teacher collaboration, while learning how to create faculty learning teams or study groups that really work. A key element will be Looking at Student Work as a key to improving classroom instruction and student achievement. For more information, visit http://www.takingaim.org

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National Inclusive Schools Week(tm) is sponsored by the Urban Special Education
Leadership Collaborative and Education Development Center, Inc.
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National Inclusive Schools Week(tm)
Education Development Center
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Newton, MA 02458-1060
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