EDUC 557 - Building and Sustaining Inclusive Culture

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SP, alternate years. This course will prepare educators with the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to build and sustain inclusive school culture. Course content and assignments emphasize ways to develop inclusive and culturally responsive programs and practices that support social inclusion and belonging. Educators will explore inclusive educational frameworks along with current social, emotional and behavioral interventions. An ongoing inquiry project will allow educators to analyze and evaluate programs and practices shaping social inclusion and belonging in an educational setting. The inquiry project will culminate in the development of an action plan to promote inclusive culture.