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Creating Communities of Belonging for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

School should be a place of belonging for each and every student. Belonging is easy to affirm, but much harder to define. This research-based resource provides ten essential dimensions of belonging for students with and without disabilities. The guide helps educational school communities to celebrate, reflect, and create observable, actionable steps to address each of the 10 dimensions, and to promote greater inclusion and belonging in schools and communities. When each of these dimensions are addressed well, schools become learning environments in which students with disabilities thrive and are seen as valued and indispensable members of the school community and beyond.

Reflecting on our Practice: Ten Ways Schools Can Foster Belonging Among Students With and Without Disabilities

Belonging is experienced when students are present, invited, welcomed, known, accepted, involved, supported, heard, befriended, and needed. This resource provides reflection questions to assist practitioners as they reflect on these ten dimensions of belonging.

The Power of Peers: Introduction to the Peer Engagement Implementation Guides

These engagement guides invite leading experts to share their expertise on implementing these nine educational interventions to promote meaningful engagement and relationships among students with and without disabilities. They created short, practical implementation guides based on their extensive experience working with local schools.

Improving Transition Plans with Person-Centered Planning

In this presentation, practitioners will learn about how Charting the LifeCourse, a valuable person-centered planning tool, can enhance a student's transition plan in school and help improve post-secondary outcomes through increased knowledge, advocacy, communication, and focus on what supports and services a student needs to reach their life goals after high school.

Empower the Learner Profile: A Tool for Advocacy and Self-Advocacy

In this presentation from the 2023 OSEP Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference, presenters provide an example of a student’s use of the tool, share how the tool has been adapted to be accessible for students with higher needs, share feedback they have received from families, and discuss the next steps as they continue to do outreach with families and professionals.