Interviews with staff at selected Oregon schools provide snapshots of inclusionary education in the mid-1990s. Tigard-Tualatin School District. Now each building has two specialists, with resource rooms as their base of operations. Students all go to their home schools, unless their parents choose otherwise. The roles of the principals, classroom teachers, instructional assistants, and special education teachers have changed.
Principals are more involved in placement decisions and with parents of severely disabled children.
Classroom teachers are working directly with special education students. Bohemia Elementary School, South Lane School District. Linda Randall, who teaches at Bohemia Elementary School, was one of the first teachers in her district to accept placement of severely disabled students in her classroom. Those students fit in well, and Randall has included students with disabilities in her classroom ever since. The secret to success, according to Randall, is that the classroom teacher has to want to do it.