Everyone builds on positive success stories. The education community actively supports practices, policies, and procedures that foster inclusive education. Meaningful partnerships with students and families involve taking responsibility for planning, decision making, problem solving of school and classroom issues. Families and students are actively involved in local school restructuring teams or task forces. District and building-based decision making teams directly involve students and families.
School leadership sets expectations, supplies support, and assesses whether expectations are met.
There is a sense of trust between all staff members of the education community. Inclusion viewed within the context of other instructional and organizational agendas of the school. The community is involved in professional development partnerships that merge general and special education at the preservice and inservice levels. The education community supports and models reform initiatives which ensure that best practices are a high priority. Schools engage in a continuous comprehensive planning and improvement process.