Project Title: Sumner Inclusion Project

Sumner School District Contact: Betsy Minor Reid 1202 Wood Avenue Sumner, WA 98390 (253) 891 6040

Population	Special Educ	504	Title I/LAP	ESL
7540	891	62	1093	47

Liberty Ridge Elementary: OSPI Inclusion Grant Progress Report 2001

• Beliefs:
  • ALL students have the right to be a fully participating member of the school community.
  • ALL students can learn and succeed.

 

• Our activities:

• Team meetings:
• Discuss inclusions strategies, develop inclusion plans, and provide support both within and across grade levels.
• Teacher-led book and video studies regarding both inclusion models and strategies.

 

• Staff training:

• Kathy Bartlett presentation Definitions and Models of Inclusion."
• Pat Steinberg presentation 'Role of General Educators in Meeting the Needs of Students."
• Cathy Ross presentations "Meeting the Literacy Needs of all Students."
• Kathy Curtis presentation "Quality Schools: Meeting the Needs of All Students."
• SIP team participation in Summer Institute.

 

• Parent Involvement:

• Parent information nights on reading and math.
• Parent involvement in inclusion team meeting.

 

• Materials:

• Videos, books, and workbooks were purchased to provide both general education and special education staff resources to develop effective accommodations and modifications to support inclusion.

 

• Impact:

• Developed a shared definition of inclusion and a set of shared beliefs surrounding the definition.
• Created a building model for special education services that is driven by the needs of the student and allows for a full continuum of services.
• Significantly decreased the number of referrals of students to district level high needs programs.
• Increased number of general education teachers participating in SIP from ten to twenty.
• Increased the extension of specially designed instruction to the regular education classroom.
• Teams developed plans to deliberately and intentionally provide increased opportunities of special education students to participate in the general education curriculum.
• Improved student achievement as measured by informal and standardized assessment measures.
• Created a team to evaluate the effectiveness of our remedial reading instruction.

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This information is provided by:
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Special Education
P O Box 47200
Olympia, WA 98504-7200
(360) 725-6088
Fax (360)586-1631
E-mail: dgill@ospi.wednet.edu