“Providing expert, step-by-step guidance to build an effective and sustainable system of high-quality inclusion for children with and without developmental disabilities.”
Our services are designed to increase inclusive opportunities for all children, align instructional practices from Pre-K through grade 3, and enhance student achievement for all learners. Below are some of the services our team offers:
- Implementation of the LEAP Preschool Model of inclusion with in-person and virtual coaching.
- Development of strategic plans with districts and agencies to expand inclusive opportunities for children Pre-K through Grade 3.
- Customization of strategic plans for starting, scaling up, and sustaining evidence-based inclusion practices from Pre-K to Grade 3.
- Designing professional development plans to align practices and initiatives from Pre-K to Grade 3.
What We Can Do Together
Build a strong theoretical base for your inclusion initiative to support families, colleagues, supervisors, clients, and the local community to understand the return on investment of high-quality inclusive practices.
- Cultivate staff support for the initiative by systematically assessing and addressing concerns at the outset.
- Align all policies, procedures, and expenditures to support your inclusion goals and specified procedural steps along the way.
- Create a shared vision for where you want to be in 1, 3, and 5 years.
- Select pilot sites, coaches, and implementation measures.
- Develop recruitment materials and “pay-for” systems for families of children without disabilities, if needed.
- Create scale-up plans and institute system modifications based on initial pilot data.
What We Know About High Quality Inclusion
- All children, regardless of support needs, are excellent candidates for inclusion.
- To be effective, inclusion must be all day, every day.
- Environments that are interesting and engaging for children without disabilities are also engaging for children with disabilities.
- An effective and sustainable inclusion delivery system often requires rethinking budgets, staffing, professional development, and personnel evaluation systems.
- Coaching support is essential to achieve and maintain high-fidelity delivery of high-quality inclusion.
- The practices and dispositions of leaders are critical to both initial and long-term success.
Critical Questions We Can Help You Answer
- What are the typical costs of a high-quality inclusive classroom from Pre-K to Grade 3?
- What funding streams are available to support the necessary personnel?
- What population of children should we prioritize for the initial roll-out of services?
- What are our existing physical, fiscal, organizational, and personnel resources?
- What investments are needed, and what are the expected returns?
- How do we create the necessary coaching positions to ensure fidelity in evidence-based practices at the child level?
- How does this initiative align with and support your overall Pre-K–12 mission?
- How do we create advocates at the school board and community levels?
- How do we address concerns related to existing contracts, other investments, and union issues?
- What are your sustainability and succession plans?
Who Benefits And How
Stakeholders benefiting from our Pre-K to 3rd grade consultation to support inclusive educational services and partnerships include:
- Children
- Parents and families
- Schools
- School districts
- Early childhood education providers and teachers
- Private schools
- Charter schools
- Communities
Who we are
Our Mission:
Our team of inclusion and academic achievement experts is committed to providing in-person and virtual support to schools and early care and education settings. Each client receives a customized strategic plan for starting, scaling up, and sustaining evidence-based inclusion practices from Pre-K to 3rd grade. (See What We Can Do Together and Critical Questions We Can Help You Answer for details.)
Our Vision:
Our school district and early childhood education clients will realize powerful, measurable, and sustainable returns on their investment, reflected in outcomes for children, satisfaction of adult family members, staff retention, and the ongoing support of upper-level administrators, school boards, advisory groups, and the general public.
Our Values:
- Children and families are best served when agencies collaborate and coordinate.
- If services are not inclusive, they are not high quality.
- One solution, one approach, one size fits no one.
- Coaching in the classroom is the only evidence-based professional development approach.
- All the best decisions are guided by reliable and valid data.
- When science has spoken on a matter, we follow science.
- Leadership is a lonely and often thankless job; we see you, we feel you, we can help.
