Family Connections in Inclusive Schools (facilitated)

Participants practice using multiple tools to gather information from families about student routines and needs and to create high quality, student-centered ILP/IEPs that reflect family priorities.

Course curriculum

1. Zoom recording links and passcodes
1. Housekeeping for our course
2. Welcome
3. Presentation Handout
4. Video: Welcome to Holland
5. Article: Grief and Parenting Children with Disabilities
6. Article: Engaging Parents of Students with Disabilities
1. Presentation Handout
2. The importance of language
3. READ: Family Impact Lens
4. READ: Invitational Education
5. APPLY: Family School Partnership Checklist
6. EXTRA: Research Based Insight on Educational Policy and Family Impact
7. EXTRA: Engaging Families - A guide to getting and learning from feedback
1. Zoom Presentation Handout (Slides)
2. LOOK: An Ecomap Checklist
3. WATCH: Creating an Ecomap
4. READ: An article about Ecomaps by Hartman
5. READ: A chapter on Ecomaps
1. Module 4 Plan
2. Slides Module 4
3. Article: Difficult conversations
4. Empathy Module - Listen on your own time
5. Empathy Handout
6. Empathy Quiz
7. RBI - Bonus Module
8. Routines-Based Interviewing Lecture
9. Article: Chapter on Routines-based Interviews
10. Younggren Kastanis McWilliam (2016) RBI-FC (15 Oct) 2
11. RBI report form
12. RBI-FC Practice Clips - Six clips - Mar 2019 - blank checklists
13. RBI-FC Practice Clips KEY - Six clips - Mar 2019
14. Clip 1: I-4-Introducing the RBI - Aria - Edited.mp4
15. Clip 2: II-1-Getting Started - Vidar - Edited
16. Clip 3: III-4- Learning About Routines - Christian to Tia's - Edited
17. Clip 4: IV-1 Worry & Change - Christian - Edited
18. Clip 5: V-2-Recapping RBI - Kjersten - Edited
19. Clip 6: VI-1 Family Prioroties - Tillian - Edited
1. Slides Handout
2. Basics of Family-Centered IEP Meetings
3. Family and student advocacy starts with the student understanding their own IEP
4. Consider the idea of neurodiversity as you write IEP goals
5. An Example IEP Parents Guide
6. Sample IFSP
7. An extra resource on writing and participating in IEP meetings
8. GAS in education
9. Want to read more about COMPASS?
10. Demo of me doing a GAS - just an extra resource
11. another set of slides that demos the gas process
1. A summary of GAS slides (from our Module 6 discussion)
2. Handout Module 7
3. Example of last year's brainstorm - what would an IEP tip sheet look like for families?
4. Unconscious Bias
5. Culturally Diverse Students
6. Bridging Cultures (Trumbull)
7. Trumbull (2020) research on cultural differences
8. Cultural Diversity Advice
9. Module 8 Handout
10. Resource from Mod 7: Connecting Family and School assessment tool
11. Template for Action Plan
12. Article: Geller (2016) sustainability
13. Article: Support and Empower
14. Fact Sheet: Parental Engagement
15. Fact Sheet: Progressing Parental Engagement
16. Resource: Family-School Partnership Guide
17. Article: Francis (2016) school culture
18. Optional activity
19. Resource: Training Resource Manual
1. Dweck False Growth Mindset (the term mentioned in class)
2. Neurodivergence
3. Neuroaffirming practice
4. ADHD
5. Brave Spaces
1. Course Survey
2. Get Your Completion Certificate

About this course

$750.00
75 lessons
3.5 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Instructor Abigail Love

Abigail Love, PhD, is broadly interested in translating educational research to teachers and families and is specifically dedicated to initiatives and research that support individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Her research focuses on motivation and self-efficacy beliefs of professionals who work with students with disabilities in a number of contexts. She is the founder of PACT: Police Autism Community Training, and has worked internationally as a K-12 teacher and university preservice teacher instructor. Abbey has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Kentucky.