TIES Inclusive Education Roadmap

The list below provides recommendations for the TIES resources for each RISE Focus Area. Additional resources can be found at www.tiescenter.org

RISE Focus Area: Placement and Settings

• Research support inclusive education
  • What Data Tell Us About General Education and Students with Disabilities
  • Creating Inclusive Schools: What Does the Research Say?
  • Inclusive Education for All Students (Introduction to the IER)
• Rationale for inclusive education
  • 10 Reasons to Support Inclusive School Communities for ALL Students
    • Facilitator Guide for 10 Reasons to Support Inclusive School Communities for ALL Students
  • 10 razones para apoyar a las comunidades escolares inclusivas para TODOS los estudiantes (Spanish version of 10 Reasons Why)
    • Guía del facilitador para 10 razones para apoyar a las comunidades escolares inclusivas para TODOS los estudiantes
  • IMPACT: Feature Issue on Inclusive Education for K-8 Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Creating Inclusive School Cultures
  • Using the Least Dangerous Assumption in Educational Decisions
  • Creating Communities of Belonging for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

RISE Focus Area: General Education Curriculum and Access

• Collaboration
  • The 5-15-45 Tool (Making the most of collaboration whether teachers have 5, 15 or 45 minutes)
  • TIP #2: Using Collaborative Teams to Support Students with Significant Communication Needs in Inclusive Classrooms
  • TIP #22: Planning for Whole Group Discussions
• Modifying Curriculum
  • Comprehensive Inclusive Education: General Education and the Inclusive IEP
  • Inclusive Big Ideas (Plan inclusive lessons using grade-level standards)
  • TIP #18: Choosing Accessible Grade-Level Texts for Use in Inclusive Classrooms
• Addressing General Education Content Standards
  • TIES Brief 5: The General Education Curriculum–Not an Alternate Curriculum!
  • Standards-Based Instruction for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (Video)
  • TIP #14: Academic Standards for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms: Same Content Standards, Alternate Achievement Standards
  • Taking the Alternate Assessment Does NOT Mean Education in a Separate Setting! (TIES Center Brief #2)

RISE Focus Area: Instructional Practices

• Embedded instruction
  • Design for Each and Every Learner: Universal Design for Learning Modules (Four PD units)
  • Evidence-Based Inclusive Practices Classroom Snapshot (Tool) (Directions included as part of the document)
  • TIP #9: Special Education High Leverage Practices for Instruction in Inclusive Settings
  • TIP #20: Embedded Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom
• Communication Support
  • TIP #1: How Peers Can Support AAC Use by Students with Significant Communication Needs
  • TIP #4: Successfully Using Communication Practices in the Inclusive Class
  • TIP #5: Connecting Core Words, Aided Language Modeling, and Literacy
  • TIP #23: Supporting the Communication Needs of Augmentative Communication Users who are also English Learners
  • TIP #24: Learners with Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) and Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Positive Behavior Support
  • Providing Access to School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (TIES Center Brief #10)
  • TIP #26: Making Universal Supports (Tier 1) within a Schoolwide Positive Interventions and Supports More Accessible for All Students
  • TIP #27: Including ALL Students in Schoolwide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports
• Promoting Meaningful Engagement
  • The Power of Peers: Peer Engagement Implementation Guides

RISE Focus Area: Student and System Outcomes

School Level

• Developing School-wide Inclusive Master Schedules
  • Inclusive Service Delivery: A Proactive Model for Better Educating ALL Students
  • A School Dedicated to Inclusion
• Teacher confidence and efficacy in inclusive classrooms
  • TIES Teacher Confidence Survey (Tool)

District Level

• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
  • MTSS for All: Including Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities

State Level

• Systems Improvement for All Students, Including Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Inclusive Leadership and Systems Change
• Separate School Placement
  • Separate School Placement Trends by Category and Age for Students with Extensive Support needs (TIES Center Report #105)
  • Reconsidering LRE: Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities and the Persistence of Separate Schools

Institutions of Higher Education Resources

• Teacher Preparation for Inclusive Practices: A Resource for Teacher Educators
• Preparing School Psychologists to Promote Inclusive Practices for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Inclusion of Students with Significant Disabilities: Supports in the General Education Classroom (IRIS Module)