Part 1: School Leadership for Students with Disabilities
Part 2: What is Inclusion and Why is it Important?
Part 3: The Principal’s Role in Developing Effective Inclusive Schools
Part 4: Instructional Leadership for Students with Disabilities
Part 5: Facilitating Collaboration
Part 6: Partnering with Parents: Ensuring Successful Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
Part 7: District Support for School Leaders

Each part has a download section that contains all the necessary materials to utilize that portion. You can also follow the links on the narrative of each page. The audience for this CEM is intended to be teacher and leader candidates within preservice programs at the undergraduate or graduate levels and/or district teachers and leaders participating in inservice professional learning opportunities.

  • Part 5: Facilitating Collaboration. This part discusses principals’ work in facilitating collaboration. Specifically, it addresses the importance of a collaborative culture for student and teacher success; characteristics of collaborative work by school professionals; key leadership practices for principals to promote and sustain collaboration; and major structures that enable teachers and specialists to collaborate in support of inclusive education.

Part 5 includes handouts accompanying the anchor presentation that instructors and professional development providers can download for use.

Handout 1: Defining the Principal’s Role
Handout 2: Who’s Available as Consultants?
Handout 3: References

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