Leading for All: How to Create Truly Inclusive and Excellent Schools - Brossura

Spencer-Iiams, Jennifer; Flosi, Josh

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ISBN 10: 1071827928 ISBN 13: 9781071827925

Casa editrice: Corwin, 2020

Riassunto

Leading for All is a practical guide that provides a clear pathway for educators to develop a more inclusive school community from start to finish. The authors share lessons learned from years building district schools where all students are served in their neighborhood school and in classrooms with their general education peers.

Features include:

• Three focus areas to guide change: Creating Inclusive Cultures, Improving Instructional Practices, and Increasing Student Voice
• 7 Components of Inclusive and Equitable Learning Communities
• Supporting resources for promoting inclusion throughout the school day, including co-curricular activities and transportation
• Stories of real students and teachers and the actions that impacted their success

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Informazioni sugli autori

Dr. Jennifer Spencer-Iiams is the Assistant Superintendent for Student Services in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District in Oregon. She has been a teacher and educational leader for 32 years. She led significant transformation in her district in the movement to a full inclusion model that honors student strengths and promotes belonging. Jennifer has served as an adjunct professor in the area of Special Education and in Emerging Bilingual Education. She has presented on models of inclusion at numerous conferences, served on statewide leadership groups focused on improvement in Special Education, and she collaborated to support national educational reform efforts for higher education and educator standards. Jennifer is a triple Duck, earning her bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of Oregon. She is the child of educators and her mother was always active in improving her community. Jennifer is the youngest sister to five strong women. She lives in West Linn, Oregon with her husband, three grown children in the area, and her dog Gus.

Josh Flosi has been an educator for 25 years in public, private, and international schools. He currently leads Student Support Services at the International School of Tanganyika, an inclusive school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Before that, he spent 10 years as a building administrator and then Assistant Director of Student Services in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District near Portland, Oregon, where he helped lead the transformation to a profoundly inclusive model of education. He spent 14 years as a high school English and Social Studies teacher. He has also been an adjunct professor in a teacher preparation program and a regular presenter at conferences. 

Josh is committed to promoting inclusive and excellent schools, believing that we all have the capacity to learn and the right to belong and contribute to a community. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University and his Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Oregon. He enjoys traveling with his family, reading, coaching soccer, and crafting homemade ice cream.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Leading for All is a practical guide that provides a clear pathway for educators to develop a more inclusive school community from start to finish.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Corwin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1071827928
• ISBN 13: 9781071827925
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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