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Inclusive Solutions
Free Ezine for People working on Inclusion
Summer Term Edition 2002
Published termly. Publishers: Colin Newton, Derek Wilson and Sharon Scoffings Email: inclusive.solutions@ntlworld.com Web Site: http://www.inclusive-solutions.com
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction 2. What's New? – Open Space Technology 3. Web site 4. Book CD and Video Resources 5. Scottish Review of SEN 6. International Inclusion Newsgroup 7. Training opportunities 8. Work with young people 9. Consultation and evaluation work 10. Inclusion - Links of Interest 11. Back Issues of Ezine 12. Share This Ezine 13. Suggestions & Comments 14. Copyright Information 15. Subscribe & Unsubscribe Information
1. INTRODUCTION Hi. Welcome to our latest Ezine. Hope you are having a rich term already…they don’t take long to warm up do they!
‘INCLUSION DOES NOT CAUSE DYSFUNCTION, IT EXPOSES IT’ – Norman
Kunc (1998) Find out more about the disability advocacy work of Norman
Kunc at www.normemma.com 2. WHAT'S NEW?
o Open Space Technology – Find out more at http://www.openspaceworld.com/
Open Space Technology is a powerful meeting methodology that enables individuals and groups to become more effective in learning environments that are demanding and constantly changing. Developed by Harrison Owen, a US based consultant Open Space Technology is now used around the world (but rarely so far in the UK) to create learning opportunities for groups within a carefully facilitated structure. The participants set the detailed agenda for an Open Space meeting and the group is trusted to find its own way into and around the issues that emerge. This process is the real opposite of ‘top down’ strategic planning! We recently facilitated 2 fully successful Open Space events with groups of 140+ teachers in South Lanarkshire under the theme of ‘Increasing Inclusion in South Lanarkshire’. Proceedings and outcomes from the day were written up and circulated immediately to all attending this will set the agenda for future action on inclusion within this region Open Space Technology: A User's Guide (Owen, 2nd Edition, Berrett-Koehler / $24.95) - all you ever wanted to know about facilitating an Open Space event. Included are the specifics about time, place, logistics, invitation and follow-up. Special attention is devoted to the preparation of the facilitator and when not to use OST. New material on the computer connection is described as well as ways to bring the Open Space Event to the critical point of concrete action. This is the key text for those wishing to add Open Space Technology to their list of facilitation tools. Alternatively you can download a 16 page summary – ‘A Brief User’s Guide to Open Space Technology’ at www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm Certificate for ‘Most supportive staff member’ is presented
termly in assembly by a Circle of Friends team of Year 7s, “Forever
Friends”, at Bluecoat comprehensive school, Nottingham City.
They know!! 3. Web site. We are still in the process of regularly adding to our web site to make it richer and even more accessible. In our ‘Ideas Workshop’ we have a number of unpublished articles and resources, which are free for anyone to download.
If you would like to contribute articles, tips, links of interest, interviews, special event dates or other resources to make inclusive education even more possible throughout the UK and beyond let us know.
4. BOOKS, CDs & VIDEO RESOURCES
We are currently working on: Teams for Inclusion – What should they be doing and what should
they not be doing – draft of this paper which has been submitted
to ‘Special Children’ can be downloaded from our website. You are welcome to view work in progress or to contribute ideas that might fit in with such work.
We have available for sale via our web site a range of books and CDs.
5. Scottish Review of SEN The Scottish Executive is carrying out a far-reaching consultation on the assessment and recording for children with special educational needs. Interim outcomes and proposals for the way forward can be downloaded from the website of the Scottish Executive at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/education/acen-04.asp This will be of interest to those who cannot see a future for our current ‘statementing’ system. The Scottish Executive is proposing to replace their version of statementing (the ‘Record of Needs’) with a ‘Co-ordinated Support Plan’ which will be written in plain English and be primarily about; ‘the provision and support that a child needs…rather than focussing primarily on his or her deficiencies and weaknesses’
‘The one place where full inclusion really does exist, no holds barred, is in some families’ Doug Biklen TASH Newsletter August 200
Haven’t heard of TASH? It is the leading US advocacy movement for inclusion in school and community and brings together people with disabilities, researchers, parents and others. Find out more at: www.tash.org. We are hoping to present our work on ‘Circles of Adults’ in December at their annual conference.
6. International Inclusion Newsgroup
If you wish to join an international email /newsgroup forum on inclusion then follow these instructions:
Instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing are located at the following URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/htbin/lwgate/INCLUSION/
or Send an e-mail message to: majordomo@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca and in the body of the message type the following two words only subscribe (unsubscribe) inclusion To send a message to the inclusion list, simply forward your message to: inclusion@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca
7. Upcoming Training Opportunities
Fresh Approaches to Hard to Manage Behaviour is a one day workshop
which we will be running in the following places: St Albans (Herts.):
27/6/02, Bristol: 4/10/02, Glasgow: 7/11/02. Full details are posted
on our website and you can download a flyer/application form via
the yellow ‘Training’ button. Including Children with Autism in Mainstream Settings This highly
successful 2 day event is to be re-run in Scotland on the 14th and
15th November 2002 at Bellshill Hilton Hotel North Lanarkshire Scotland.
Featuring Carol Tashie and Cathy Apfel from The Institute on Disability,
University of New Hampshire, USA and the Inclusive Solutions team,
numbers will be limited to 60 to ensure an intensive learning experience
over the 2 days. Contact Sharon Scoffings sharon-inclusive.solutions@ntlworld.com
for further details and an application form.
‘Circles of Adults’ – Teams Reflecting and Problem
Solving around Emotional Needs and Challenging Behaviour 10 monthly
twilight sessions beginning 16th October 2002. Venue: The University
of Nottingham. Facilitated by Colin Newton, Derek Wilson and Jackie
Dearden of Inclusive Solutions, these sessions will model an in-depth
problem solving process for use by Teams challenged by the inclusion
of young people with significant behaviour difficulties. This approach
is particularly effective for use by multi-disciplinary teams, and
will be a key training input for SENCOs, Year Managers, Educational
psychologists, Learning mentors and Learning Support Unit staff as
well as Residential care workers/managers and Child and Adolescent
Mental health workers. Cost = £395 for the 10 sessions. Number
of participants will be limited to 20 – so apply early to ensure
your place. Flyer and full details from Sharon Scoffings @ sharon-inclusive.solutions@ntlworld.com ‘Inclusion Now’ Summer School, 15th-18th July, 2002
(Nottingham, East Midlands Conference Centre) Over 150 people from
all over the UK are now signed up to attend this amazing 'first of
its kind in the UK' 4-day Summer School which is being organised
jointly between Disability Equality in Education (DEE), The Alliance
for Inclusive Education, Parents for Inclusion (Pi) and Inclusive
Solutions. Key national and international figures in the Inclusion
movement who will be presenting and facilitating include: John O’Brien,
Jack Pearpoint, Len Barton, Mel Ainscow, Micheline Mason, Richard
Reiser and Gary Bunch. Click on the Alliance for Inclusion web page
for full details: http://www.allfie.org.uk/ Places are still available
for this historic 4-day non-profit making event. Contact the event
organiser Hazel Peasley: hazelvpeasley@supanet.com for details of
workshops and other events each day MA in Inclusive Practice. Great new opportunity for a 3 year MA
in Inclusive Practice at Nottingham University, School of Education.
This has been developed in collaboration between Inclusive Solutions
and the University. The MA is the first of its kind in the UK involving
international inputs from Canada, North America and New Hampshire.
Starting September 2002. Contact Inclusive Solutions by email or
phone or email eric.parkins@nottingham.ac.uk
A range of training opportunities are available from Inclusive Solutions,
tailor made to suit the needs of your team or organisation. We are
offering a series of taster sessions at Nottingham University. (See
web site for details of training for Autumn term 2002)
8. Work with young people We have been working directly with young people in some new ways over recent months.
PATH for Year 10s for their dream school in Derbyshire later compared
with the PATH (with the same theme)generated by school staff. Great
way to inform management planning ‘Arousha has a disability, but she is a person, just the same as anybody else’, Megan Year 7 (June 2002)
9. Evaluation and consultation work We are currently offering to audit the inclusive practices of LEAs who have the highest levels of segregation in the UK. We are keen to examine in detail the administrative and professional processes and decision points which can trigger special school or unit placement instead of allowing more creativity around local mainstream placements. If you can help us get inside such doors, let us know!
We have completed three major evaluations of LEA Inclusion projects and a Behaviour Support Project. If you are interested in our findings or our recommendations for increasing inclusive practice let us know.
“ When you hear the word ‘inevitable’ Watch out An enemy of humanity has revealed himself” Stephen Vizinczey 1970 ‘The Rules of Chaos’
10. INCLUSION LINKS OF INTEREST -
1) INCLUSION PRESS! http://www.inclusion.com MAKING INCLUSION WORK this is still the place to start!
2) Inclusion Distribution UK - books and videos including Inclusion Press materials E-mail: mailto:kreeves@inclusiononline.co.uk
3) 11) Alliance for Inclusive Education – UK’s leading campaigners for inclusive schools and communities. http://www.allfie.org.uk
4) http://www.parentsforinclusion.org/ Parents for Inclusion are an excellent UK source of support and advice for parents and professionals on inclusive education. They walk the talk
5) Disability Equality in Education - UK Training Network for Disability Equality Training. Email- info@diseed.org.uk Website: www.diseed.org.uk
6) 4) Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE)- UK source of information and advice about inclusive education and related issues http://inclusion.uwe.ac.uk/csie/csiehome.htm
7) Great sweatshirts and T-shirts, posters, stories and links at www.thenthdegree.com Maintained by Dan Wilkins a leading US disabled advocate. 8) A good source of Articles and books to buy on Autism is at www.autcom.org This is the only autism advocacy organization dedicated to "Social Justice for All Citizens with Autism" through a shared vision and a commitment to positive approaches. The organization was founded in 1990 to protect and advance the human rights and civil rights of all persons with autism. We recently got hold of a book called Autism - A New Understanding: Solving the 'Mystery' of Autism, Aspergers, and PDD-NOS, Gail Gillingham (2000). A follow-up to Gail's first book with more great information on sensory issues. Readers will experience less frustration and more competency when working or living with people with autism when they understand and apply the suggestions in this book. $31.00. Available via the website
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Our thoughts are with you all. Colin Newton and Derek Wilson
Co-Founders
Inclusive Solutions
Our mission is to create fully inclusive mainstream schools, organisations and communities where all belong
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