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0 Inclusion Works! (The Arc of Texas)
provided training and technical assistance to
school personnel and parents at local school
districts and education conferences across the
state from January 1993 to August 1997 to pro-
mote the education of all students in neighbor-
hood schools and regular classes with children
their own age. Over 1500 teachers, parents and
administrators attended the Inclusion Works!
conference in El Paso in February 1997. Previ-
ous conferences in Austin, Corpus Christi,
Dallas and Houston trained over 3,500 Texans.
Also during the grant, Inclusion Works!
teamed with the Texas Education Agency,
Region 20 Education Service Center (ESC), and
regional ESC inclusion facilitators to provide in-
formation about local best practices across Texas.
Training and technical assistance were provided
to TEA pilot inclusion sites and the Council's
demonstration projects at Fort Bend and Mans-
field Independent School Districts (ISDs).
Inclusion Works! also established inclusive class-
rooms and field experiences for pre-service
interns and made a video on inclusive education.
A Dean's Summit on inclusive education
last year was attended by 22 Texas universities,
and a training manual was prepared for inclu-
sion consultants at the ESCs. Other presenta-
tions were made to 10 parent groups and at 15Inclusion, for Josh Downing (front row, left) and his
everyone belongs and everyone participates, from at
together in Gustine, Texas, to performing in school
of regular activities in their rural community.conferences. The project continues its activities
though Council funding has ended, including
its statewide conference on inclusive education.
O Inclusive Education Demonstration
(Mansfield ISD) combined the resources and
skills of general and special education teachers
to meet the needs of all students in regular class-
rooms, including 1200 students with disabilities.
Programs and techniques once limited to special
education classes and resource rooms became
available for all students in the district. Mans-
field ISD conducted training for all school per-
sonnel, community leaders, parents, volunteers
and school board members, in addition to pre-
paring regular and special education teachers
to support children in regular classes.
Located just south of Arlington and Fort
Worth, the school district has a total enrollment
of 12,000 students. Over 97% of its special
education students, pre-kindergarten through
grade 12, attended regular classrooms in their
neighborhood schools before the grant ended
in May 1997. The district also worked on
transitioning graduates to integrated work or
other educational activities in the community.
O Inclusive Education Demonstration
(Fort Bend ISD) also worked in the local com-
munity to include
915 special educa-
tion students in
regular education
classrooms on their
home campuses.
The ISD started with
pre-kindergarten
education classrooms
t. and systematically
included elementary
and secondary
students during the
five-year project that
ended in May 1997.
The project, located
on the southwest
edge of Houston,
featured a district-
s classmates, means that wide advisory com-
tending kindergarten mittee and inclusive
programs and being part education teams on
each campus.
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