Inclusion

Updated 7/1/2025 If you teach in an inclusive classroom, here's one critical way you can support your students with disabilities: by helping them strengthen their sense of disability pride and…

Preschool inclusion benefits all children, with and without disabilities. It takes a highly focused and effective team to implement sustained, high-quality inclusion, and the guidelines in today’s post can help…

An important part of teaching respect for diversity is helping young children understand and internalize the value of other people across the world. That can be tough when children lack…

As you gear up for the next school year (and hopefully fit in some time for relaxing and recharging), here are a few tips and insights to tuck away in…

Today’s guest post is by Holly Porter, author of Intentional Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners. When we started building our co-teaching program for multilingual learners, we quickly realized something important: we…

In early childhood classrooms, dramatic play is a powerful way to promote every child’s social, communication, and problem-solving skills. Excerpted and adapted from the new edition of Building Blocks for Teaching…

*Today’s post has been adapted from the chapter “The Role of Executive Function in Literacy Instruction” by Monica Gordon-Pershey, in Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition, edited by Judith R. Birsh &…

Strengthening students’ executive function skills is one of the most important things teachers can do to help students succeed in an era that requires flexibility, emotional regulation, persistence, and strong…

Today’s post is adapted from Meaningful Mealtimes by Yev Veverka, Susan A. Ramage, Christy Baker, Kelsey Milne, & Emilie Dupont—a practical, inclusive guide to making mealtimes fulfilling and meaningful experiences…

Have you signed up for Paula Kluth’s new professional development session, “You’re Going to Love This Kid”: Teaching Autistic Students in the Inclusive Classroom? A full 10 hours of virtual…