Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education

MCIE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the inclusion of students with disabilities in their neighborhood schools.

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April is Autism Acceptance Month (and it's almost here!) Renew your commitment to autism acceptance and inclusion. Take the pledge at http://autismacceptancemonth.com. MCIE is a proud sponsor of the Autism Acceptance Month website. [Image description: the image has colorful spring shapes, including flower silhouettes, and several small Autism Acceptance Month logos]

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NEW on the MCIE blog from our Communications Specialist Kit Mead, along with Professional Learning Facilitators Betsy Tornquist and Tom Robbins! The post "offers five methods to center your youth's voice as you help them develop the skills to achieve their goals."

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Soon: We'll have a blog post and resource about supporting disabled transition-aged youth in self-determination! Keep an eye out for it. ⠀ ⠀ For now, here's a snippet of one of the sections: Amplify your student's voice, and provide your students with effective communication tools to get any needed support, and if necessary, defend their rights.

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SWIFT Education Center Research to Practice Brief, October 2017

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What is intelligence? Is a 32-year-old man who co-teaches at Syracuse University classes intelligent? What about a 25-year-old woman who charms her way into the job of her dreams? How about a 17-year-old young man whose paintings are exhibited at major universities in Boston? Are they intelligent?

Read about the film being produced by Dan Habib that challenges conceptions of what intelligence is by discussing what it has meant historically - and the lives of people with intellectual disabilities today

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Students with disabilities and students of color are disproportionately impacted by discipline practices - this is a resource collection

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PBISApps is the maker of the School-Wide Information System (SWIS) Suite, PBIS Assessment, and PBIS Evaluation. Our applications have been implemented in more than 25,000 schools in the US and abroad. PBISApps has been making schools safer, more productive places for more than a decade by empowering educators to make data-based decisions as problems emerge.

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A University of Kansas education technical assistance and research center is... implementing a framework of education that uses research-backed practices to support the...needs of every student throughout the state.

“We have a school reform model that has changed the way we educate... We [can] make a difference for all students”

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The lights dim. An image of hands typing on a laptop keyboard appears on the screen. A digital voice narrates the scene as it dissolves into an animation of a poem. This is Deej, the autobiographic…

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Jessica Meisenheimer, Ivonne Dibblee, & Kathleen Ellwood; University of Kansas and Portland Public Schools

Tri-fold poster from SWIFT Education Center.

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Posted on October 19, 2017 by paraeducate

But that made us think about the skills a paraeducator needs to move into the next level of abilities of training. We’ve grouped them into three specific skill sets: Looking Ahead, Looking Out, and Looking At the Present.

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A Guide to Developing and Conducting an Effective Group

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Some ways to help students gain disability pride, from acceptance to connecting with the disability community

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[Archived Webinar from the Center for Accessible Educational Materials]

The students of your future will need accessible educational materials (AEM), a provision of IDEA 2004. In this webinar, you'll learn what accessibility means, who needs AEM, and how AEM is provided to learners. Most importantly, we'll share strategies for how you can start preparing now to be AEM ready for your first class of learners.

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In her continuing efforts to improve her teaching, a middle school teacher moved from reworking the curriculum to updating her room.

Or, why classroom design and environment matters!

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Center for Parent Information and Resources

Despite the increasing popularity of school vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax incentive programs, many parents of children with disabilities struggle to find quality information and are left with important questions about how these programs work and might impact a child with a disability.

...The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) identified 3 major hurdles facing families of students with disabilities:

the potential loss of federal civil rights protections;

lack of access to information; and

added costs.