Inclusion expert for schools
Support that truly changes your school
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Create a solid plan to up your inclusion game
Empower your school
It turns out inclusion is easier
said than done!
Expanding our program to serve a more diverse range of learners seems out of reach.
Developing a sustainable and effective long-term strategy for our learning support services is a challenge.
Our current approach to learning support services lacks integration and collaboration.
While we highly value the contributions of our teaching assistants, finding time to provide this training is a challenge.
Let’s turn those pain points into positive outcomes
Build Inclusion Capacity
Build a Sustainable
Strategy
Take a Closer Look
Train Teaching Assistants
"April’s sessions are well thought out with a clear vision and expected outcome for each session. She provides the right balance between consultancy and inviting participants to identify their own solutions.
April meets her workshop participants in a calm and friendly manner and demonstrates a great ability to listen, be flexible and open-minded, thus embracing the input, ideas and different needs of the group."
Your inclusion guide
Hi, I'm April!
At the age of 8, I had a teacher who didn't understand my gifts and would send me to work with students who had intensive needs. Though it was meant as punishment, it sparked my passion for supporting individuals with diverse abilities.
Over the course of 20 years teaching, I developed strategies for creating a more inclusive and equitable learning environment for all students.
In 2018, I dedicated myself fully to advancing inclusion in schools and advocating for neurodiverse students.
Today, I partner with top schools and organizations to enhance their inclusion practices, and I am a sought-after speaker at prominent disability inclusion conferences around the world.
How I work
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Create a solid plan
Empower your school
Knowledge
Teaching Assistant Support
Professional development is readily available for teachers, but teaching assistants rarely have structured development opportunities.
- Consistent onboarding process
- 10-hours of online training
- Bespoke evaluation program
Development
Professional Development
Keep your teaching skills and knowledge up to date with engaging and interactive PD.
- School-wide Audit through a disability inclusive lens
- Co-Teaching
- Transitions
- Differentiation Best Practices
- Executive Functioning Skills
- UDL supports SEL
STEP: Strategic Tracking of Educational Progress
Progress Monitoring Tool
Does your staff struggle to keep track of student progress over time and use the data to inform their teaching practices?
- Access 5,000 pre-loaded ILP goals - customize or add your own
- Create & store ILPs on a secure platform
- Overview of a student's scholastic & developmental journey
- Connect all individuals on a student's team & stop having the prep meetings before the parent meetings!
- Access legacy data for all students - pull up student information years later
Trusted by organizations worldwide to tackle inclusion
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"April's dedication as a volunteer Director of Finance for SENIA International is beyond compare. She partners with me daily to plan and refine our conference details. She is driven and thorough in all she takes on, and is the penultimate team-player. She is incredibly valued."
"Steps has worked with April on several consultancy projects and we find her experience, insights, and fresh ideas critical to our projects. She provides a space for innovative, transparent, and meaningful work to occur whilst building up the teams she’s supporting to deliver nothing short of excellence."
What do Inclusive Schools Create?
Catapult your school to the next level
Get free access to templates that are useful for schools and parents
- Learner Profile
- IEP Parent Invitation Letter
- IEP Checklist
- How to run a great IEP meeting