Special Projects for Inclusion team provides support and professional learning opportunities for administrators, educators, and families to ensure that students with disabilities have equitable access to the general education curriculum and environment, including high expectations and meaningful opportunities for engagement with their peers and community.
Special Projects
Inclusive Education
An inclusive education happens when all students experience belonging, are presumed competent and worthy of a high quality, challenging, and equitable education, and are valued and celebrated members of a school community, academically and socially, to prepare all students for meaningful and inclusive post-secondary lives
Maine Inclusive Education Framework
A workgroup of educators, families, self-advocates, higher education faculty and members of the Maine DOE are currently creating Maine’s Inclusive Education Framework.
Math4ME
Math4ME is designed to implement evidence-based professional development which increases math proficiency and inclusionary practices for students with exceptionalities and improves instructional practices for educators of all students.
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Maine Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports (PBIS)
The mission of Maine PBIS is to enhance the quality of life of students by promoting evidence-based and effective positive behavior supports to realize socially valid and equitable outcomes for people, families, schools, agencies, and communities.
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Special Educator Engagement Development & Supports (SEEDS)
SEEDS provides supports for conditionally certified special educators and new special educators with professional learning and mentoring. Additionally, SEEDS works with schools, SAUs, and higher education to expand opportunities for the educator workforce.
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Transition Maine
Transition Maine is a collective of post-secondary programming, collaborations and supports for students, families, schools and communities to ensure purposeful and meaningful lives for students with disabilities as they enter the adult world.
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Tracy Whitlock, Ph.D.Special Projects for Inclusion Coordinator
Phone: 207-592-1012
Email: Tracy.W.Whitlock@maine.gov