Teaming With Families 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. Welcome
2. Weekly Zoom Information
3. Syllabus
4. Presentation Handout
5. Video: Welcome to Holland
6. Article: Grief and Parenting Children with Disabilities
7. Article: Engaging Parents of Students with Disabilities
1. Presentation Handout
2. READ: Family Impact Lens
3. READ: Invitational Education
4. APPLY: Family School Partnership Checklist
5. EXTRA: Research Based Insight on Educational Policy and Family Impact
6. EXTRA: Engaging Families - A guide to getting and learning from feedback
1. Module Plan
2. Zoom Presentation Handout (Slides)
3. LOOK: An Ecomap Checklist
4. WATCH: Creating an Ecomap
5. READ: An article about Ecomaps by Hartman
6. READ: A chapter on Ecomaps
7. Bonus share! Has anyone explored AI and the ways it can support inclusion at your school?
1. Module 4 Plan
2. Zoom Lecture Handout
3. Empathy Module Mar 2019
4. Empathy Handout
5. Empathy Quiz
6. READ: Nonviolent Communication
7. Article: Denial
1. Module 5 Plan
2. Routines-Based Interviewing Lecture
3. Article: Chapter on Routines-based Interviews
4. Younggren Kastanis McWilliam (2016) RBI-FC (15 Oct) 2
5. RBI report form
6. RBI-FC Practice Clips - Six clips - Mar 2019 - blank checklists
7. RBI-FC Practice Clips KEY - Six clips - Mar 2019
8. Clip 1: I-4-Introducing the RBI - Aria - Edited.mp4
9. Clip 2: II-1-Getting Started - Vidar - Edited
10. Clip 3: III-4- Learning About Routines - Christian to Tia's - Edited
11. Clip 4: IV-1 Worry & Change - Christian - Edited
12. Clip 5: V-2-Recapping RBI - Kjersten - Edited
13. Clip 6: VI-1 Family Prioroties - Tillian - Edited
14. RBI assignment (for students seeking masters credit only)
1. Module 6 Plan
2. Zoom Lecture Handout
3. Basics of Family-Centered IEP Meetings
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. Want to read more about COMPASS?
1. A summary of GAS slides (from our Module 6 discussion)
2. Module 7 Plan
3. Module 7: Powerpoint Lecture
4. Module 7 Lecture (only here if you missed class 14.9.23)
5. Unconscious Bias
6. Culturally Diverse Students
7. Bridging Cultures (Trumball)
8. Cultural Diversity Advice
9. This is the brainstorm we did together in class - consider making one for your own school!
10. This is last year's class brainstorm - just sharing so you can learn from their ideas!
11. Reminder
1. Resource from Mod 7: Connecting Family and School assessment tool
2. Reflection Paper (students seeking university credit only)
3. Module 8 Plan
4. Template for Action Plan (Activity During Zoom)
5. Module 8 Lecture
6. Article: Geller (2016) sustainability
7. Article: Francis (2016) school culture
8. Article: Support and Empower
9. Fact Sheet: Parental Engagement
10. Fact Sheet: Progressing Parental Engagement
11. Resource: Family-School Partnership Guide
12. Resource: Training Resource Manual
13. Optional activity
14. google doc from class
1. Course Summary Notes (from a previous cohort! just sharing if it helps you remember key ideas)
2. Exit Survey
3. Get your certificate.

About this course

$750.00
77 lessons
10.5 hours of video content

Teaming With Families in Inclusive Schools (facilitated)

Course curriculum

MODULE ONE: introduction and guiding theories

MODULE TWO: policies & procedures

MODULE THREE: family ecology

MODULE FOUR: empathy & difficult conversations

MODULE FIVE: routines-based interview

MODULE SIX: IEP/ILP development

MODULE SEVEN: bridging cultural differences

MODULE EIGHT: uniting families & wrap-up

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