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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remember, ITS is actually ITDS -- it's a Demonstration School for the Center for Inspired Teaching (professional development for teachers all over the city and beyond). Thus, unlikely to change its mission.[/quote]

One of the areas of most needs for teacher professional development is training teachers how to work with diverse populations, including students with disabilities. So it should actually be right up their alley.

FWIW ITS has 16% students with SN. Most are Level 1, but they are on track with most DCPS schools, save for those with self-contained classrooms, who only serve students who are in general education classrooms with supports.[/quote]

Great point.  How can ITS claim to be serving DCPS with teacher training if special needs teaching is not part of their training?  [/quote]

Now you're just picking on them for nothing. They're not trying to provide ALL teacher training. Lots of organizations with their own niches do that.[/quote]

You're talking to more than one person.

I actually don't think ITS should necessarily add self-contained classrooms. I do think that teaching general education teachers to incorporate universal design and do inclusion in an outstanding way would be a huge contribution.

Teachers who want to get this now have to go back and get a master's in special education; it's barely taught in colleges. And for the charter 'subject expert' teachers who aren't coming through a formal training program, they may have no exposure at all. It is a HUGE problem in both traditional and charter schools. [/quote]

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