Special Education

Sensory issues can create barriers to learning--but with a few well-chosen modifications to your classroom environment, you can meet your students' individual needs and help them stay focused on your…

[POST UPDATED on 2/23/22] In your inclusive classroom, how can you best address the academic and behavioral needs and challenges of learners on the autism spectrum? There's no formula or…

Happy Inclusive Schools Week! Whether you're a teacher, paraprofessional, principal, parent, or one of the many other education professionals who help inclusive schools thrive, we celebrate and honor you this…

When you're working with students who have IEPs, it's important to write specific and measurable IEP goals, collect good data, and keep the data organized. Today's post gives you some…

Here on the Inclusion Lab, we talk a lot about inclusion at the individual classroom level--but we also know that many schools and districts are struggling with higher-level challenges to…

When you reinforce self-esteem and resilience in your students, you equip them with critical skills they need to succeed socially and academically. In today's post, excerpted and adapted from Learning…

Universal design for learning (UDL) is hands-down one of the most talked-about topics among our Twitter followers. Here at the Inclusion Lab, we love helping you spread the word about UDL…

Happy Tuesday, Inclusion Lab readers! Today we've got a great guest post about Camps on TRACKS, an Ontario-based camp that promotes inclusion through peer-mediated social skills. Kids who attend the…

October is National Bullying Prevention Month--a nationwide campaign founded more than a decade ago by PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center. Each year at this time, we try to provide you with some practical…

As our readers know, we at the Inclusion Lab are all about connecting educators with practical tips they can use right away to welcome, reach, and include all learners. Our…