Inclusion Coaching for Collaborative Schools

Be the coach who leads your school team to inclusion success!

You know the benefits of inclusion, and your colleagues know that you're the go-to expert when they need assistance with school and classroom implementation. Now you can take your advocacy to the next level with inclusion coaching. Inclusion works best when all team players contribute, and as coach, you'll provide the leadership your school needs to follow through on its mission in a truly collaborative way.

Just as instructional coaches help teachers improve their practice and hone their skills, you'll guide your school team in applying the very best inclusion strategies for achieving quantifiable results. Toby Karten's how-to guide will help you

• Establish your own coaching baselines
• Introduce research-based strategies for lesson planning, instruction, and recording data
• Engage staff in reflective and collaborative inclusion practices
• Manage challenges, including scheduling and co-teaching responsibilities

With timelines, planning sheets, surveys, frameworks, curriculum examples, and other practical tools, this hands-on guide is the essential resource for the newly minted inclusion coach.

"This book is the necessary piece to including all students successfully in the learning and living classroom. The information, planning, and questioning will help all schools develop the tools necessary to reach all students."
—Karen Kozy-Landress, Speech/Language Pathologist
MILA Elementary School, Merritt Island, FL

• Provides a foundation of knowledge about learners with special needs and addresses the key strengths and challenges of inclusion
• Provides guidance on establishing baselines, appraising inclusion gaps and ambiguities, and identifying 21^st century inclusion competencies
• Includes illustrative professional staff development and coaching scenarios
• Offers annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily curriculum plans that incorporate inclusion strategies
• Provides guidance on aligning the relevant curriculum plans with core curriculum state standards and coordinating lessons between districts, schools, classes, and students
• Presents options for organizing curriculum delivery in whole class and small group settings, as well as with individual students
• Includes suggestions for prompting reflection and creating meaningful assessments and evaluations
• Guides educators through the process of reasoning and inferring beyond the data and duplicating their successes