Inclusive Education
Resources
To explore Inclusive Education at Teach For All, we have a co-created community called the Inclusive Educators Lab. This is a space within the Teach For All network for any teacher, educator, or teacher coach to come together to explore how to make classrooms more inclusive. We learn, discuss, reflect, and share best practices through our bi-monthly newsletter, virtual community calls, and online discussion hub. Sign up to join our community here.
Below, you will find a curated selection of case studies, Inclusive Education Fellowship project overviews, and resources to support you in exploring research-based best practices for inclusive education with a deep focus on Universal Design for Learning, metacognition, and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
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Inspiring Indigenous Children to Stay in School
This video looks at how Jesus Insilada, a top 10 Teacher Prize finalist, uses culture-based education to enable engaging learning for Indigenous children. Students learn through traditional dances, songs, epics, local games, and crafts.
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Metacognition: How Thinking About Thinking Can Help Kids
This article unpacks the meaning of metacognition and how it can help children with learning issues to self-regulate and quiet negative self-talk. It also describes the type of questions to ask children to promote deeper reflection.
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Warrior Scholars - Decolonizing Education
This video features Kia Aroha, a college in Auckland, New Zealand using aspects of Māori culture as a teaching or learning method. Their curriculum focuses on a critical analysis of the historical and present realities that affect students' lives.
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The Teacher Solving Problems in a Remote Inuit Community
This video shows how Maggie MacDonnell, 2017 Global Teacher Prize winner, works with the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec. She uses students' cultures and identities to foster a holistic, culturally sustaining education.
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Universal Design for Learning: A Teacher's Guide
This article highlights the purpose of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), what it looks like in the classroom, and the principles of UDL that emphasize learner variability. It also looks at how families can support student learning through UDL.
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A Systematic and Localised Approach to Measuring and Monitoring the Wellbeing of Students
This case study was created by Teach For Australia alumnus Will Lutwyche for the Inclusive Education fellowship. He explored how schools can effectively use data to measure, monitor, and respond to the wellbeing needs of students.