Environments that ensure equity of access, are inclusive and promote proactive approaches that are responsive to students with learning disabilities.
System Actions
- Set conditions to ensure reflective and collaborative practices
- Set high expectations and support all students with learning disabilities to achieve those expectations
- Make asset based decisions
- Understand stigma and the impact it has on students with learning disabilities
- Foster mentally healthy learning environments that supports resiliency, self-advocacy and stigma reduction
- Develop growth mindsets that encourage students to be autonomous and independent learners
- Construct a strategic plan for the seamless access and use of assistive technology for students with learning disabilities
School Actions
- Engage in reflective and collaborative practices
- Embrace responsibility for all students with learning disabilities
- Build a culture of inclusion and high expectations that is responsive to students with learning disabilities
- Intentionally develop a culture of growth mindset
- Identify stigma, barriers to inclusion and the impact they have on students with learning disabilities
- Empower students to understand and use their learning profile
- Ensure full implementation of the seamless access and use of assistive technology
- Construct flexible learning environments (time, space, resources) that support individual strengths and needs
- Create an environment that encourages and responds positively to student advocacy as a tool to increase student achievement and well-being
Classroom Actions
- Elicit student voice and provide choice
- Co-create learning opportunities, spaces, routines and classroom expectations to support diverse learners
- Develop students as self-advocates for their learning strengths, needs and interests
- Ensure students with learning disabilities are active agents in their learning and have voice in the development of their pathway
- Create safe learning environments and mentally healthy classrooms
- Invite learners to take risks, explore new ideas and feel safe and comfortable in doing so
- Create a learning environment that reduces stigma and fosters inclusion
- Create a learning environment that supports and encourages the use of assistive technology