As our inclusive pod goes on I continue to contribute much of the success to the theory that if you plan for the students on the two extremes of your group – those who may need the more intensive support and those who may need extensions, then in the end you will have reached everyone’s needs, including the students falling in the middle.
One aspect that allows us to do that is our unit planning. Our year long study is around the concept of community – what is a community, who makes up a community, and what does a community do. While this concept seems simple on the outside, each unit we have done has taken us further into answering this question.
we wanted to do a project that dealt with thankfulness, but hadn’t found one yet.
Our Augmentative Learning Program Study (ALPS) performed their first Readers’ Theater! 
Our Inclusive AAC Learning Group officially began September 14, 2020. After what somehow felt both like months of planning and yet still not enough time to be ready, we opened our group to a small but eager group of first through third grade students on Monday afternoon. We are looking forward to welcoming more students, but are taking advantage of the small group to find our sea legs and develop our rhythm.
