Your Students, My Students, OUR Students

Your Students, My Students, OUR Students: Leading a Culture of Inclusion (self-paced)

This facilitated course is based on the ASCD book, Your Students, My Students, Our Students (2019). Learn about leading a culture and climate of inclusion and the logistics of how to deliver support in inclusive settings.

Course curriculum

1. Focus
2. Article: Read about the Universal Design for Learning framework.
3. Video: universal design for learning
4. Resource: Review a list of many ways students can show what they can do and understand. Can you add to the list?
5. Article: In this Educational Leadership article, Lee Ann Jung presents ways to design lessons with UDL in mind.
6. Case Story: In this case story, read about how one educator used multiple means of expression in her units on using evidence to support claims.
7. Website: Visit the CAST website to learn more about UDL.
8. Action
9. Reflection
1. Focus
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Article: Read about special education service structures and alternatives to consider.
3. Article: Read about research on using paraprofessionals (shadow teachers)
4. Article: Read Giangreco's newer article on lessons learned about paraprofessionals and service delivery.
5. Video: Service Delivery
6. Action
7. Reflection
1. Focus
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Article: In this seminal (and lengthy) literature review, Black and Wiliam synthesize the results on the effects of formative assessment.
3. Article: In this article, Butler and Nisan compare the effects of feedback, feedback with a grade, and no feedback or grade on student performance.
4. Article: In this chapter, Sue Brookhart provides strategies for making our feedback more effective in impacting student learning.
5. Video: Mastery-Based Assessment
6. Resource: In this issue of Educational Leadership Magazine, authors explore a focus on feedback over one on grades.
7. Resource: Examples of learning progressions from Lucy Calkins
8. Resource: In this policy brief, learn about the role of learning progressions in standards-based reform.
9. Action
10. Reflection
11. Mastery Assessment and Grading
  FREE PREVIEW
1. Focus
2. Article: This article outlines different types of mnemonics with descriptions and tips for using them.
3. Article: This article provides a structure for using Read Aloud for comprehension. The figure on page 288 uses a flowchart to present discourse routines.
4. Video: Tier One Strategies for Cognitive Support
5. Resource: Tools from the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the Iris Center
6. Action
7. Reflection
1. Focus
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Video: Domains of Social Emotional Learning
3. Video: Universal Design for Regulation
4. Article: In this Kappan article, learn about the importance of a social-emotional learning curriculum to academic success.
5. Article: In this article, learn about the effects of integrating a social-emotional learning curriculum with PBIS.
6. Article: In this article, Lee Ann and Dominic Smith talk about the flaws of a typical behavior management system used in elementary schools.
7. Compassionate Classrooms
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8. Action
9. Reflect
1. Focus
2. Video: Abbey Love talks to us about supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
3. Resource: Visual Supports Tool Kit
4. Resource: Read more about the diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorders.
5. Resource: Free web-based modules available on a range of topics specific to ASD
6. Action
7. Reflect

About this course

$475.00
63 lessons
3.5 hours of video content

Instructor

Founder • Lead Inclusion Lee Ann Jung

Lee Ann is the founder of Lead Inclusion and a Professor of Practice at San Diego State University. She is a systems thinker who works alongside educators and school leaders to strengthen universal design for learning, inclusion, intervention, MTSS, and mastery-based assessment and grading. She regularly provides individualized coaching and thought partnership to school leaders as they navigate the complexities of leading inclusive efforts. A former special education teacher and administrator, Lee Ann brings a deep understanding of the realities of school life. She has consulted with schools in more than 30 countries and across the United States, engaging in ongoing conversations about how to make learning more equitable and meaningful for all students. The author of nine books and numerous journal articles and book chapters, Lee Ann writes about practical, research-based strategies for inclusive education and effective systems change. In her community, she serves as a board member for Life Adventure Center, a nonprofit focused on healing for individuals who have experienced trauma.