The Global Resource Center for Inclusive Education (GRC), housed at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration, works toward systemic improvement of educational programs, practices, and policies that affect children youth and adults with disabilities and their families around the world. Our mission is to provide sustainable and culturally-responsive approaches and strategies and contribute to the knowledge base of inclusive and special education worldwide. Our areas of expertise include Universal Design for Learning, Response to Intervention, teacher collaboration, data-based decision making, Curriculum-Based Measurement, self-determination, Inclusive Service Learning, transition from school to community living and employment, and more. We have collaborated with researchers, policy makers, educators, families and people with disabilities in the U.S.; Western, Central and Eastern Europe; East and South Asia, and Central America.
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Feature Story | July 2024
Namibia: Community-Driven Priorities
University of Minnesota leaders in child welfare and disability worked with Namibian stakeholders last month to start a center for children with disabilities at the University of Namibia. Based on her work experience in another country with limited resources and infrastructure, ICI Director Amy Hewitt (center) emphasized the need for replicable models.
Feature Story | February 2024
To Survive, and to Laugh
Sergiy Sydoriv is an education professor in Ukraine and former Americans with Disabilities Act fellow who still defends inclusive education (and joy), even though his country has become a war zone. “We still pursue inclusive education, but at the same time, many schools in my country are closed or destroyed.”
