Awards and Nominations
The Philosophy of the Award
This Award was developed in 1999 to recognize, celebrate and highlight educators who live, breathe and implement Inclusive Education. They may be active in the inclusion movement but more importantly, their behaviour and the choices they make always:
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reflect a positive attitude about the worth, value and ability of all students. Specific, authentic activities and roles will be used to demonstrate to others the worth of inclusion and as important – that the most significant ingredients for successful inclusion are attitude and effort.
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celebrate all students attending their neighborhood schools.They celebrate all students learning together with their age appropriate peers in regular classroom settings and participating in all aspects of the life of their school. They celebrate supporting all students to show up in their schools as contributing citizens and valued friends.
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Past Speakers and Recent Award Winners
Access to Curriculum for All
Dr. Richard Villa
1998
Topic
Presenter
Year
Making Inclusion Work: Practical Classroom Strategies (Grades K-6)High School Inclusion: Supporting Students with Disabilities to be Real Members of High School Communities.
Dr. Ann Beninghof
Carol Tashie
1999
Teaching for Diversity in Secondary School
Practical Strategies for Teachers: Including All Students in General Education Classrooms.
Inclusion: Opportunities and Challenges. A Workshop for School Administrators
Julie Stone
Dr. June Downing
Dr. Shirley McBridge
2000
Do All Kids Belong in All Classes? Equity or Excellence in Public Education; and, Learning to Stand Still: Supporting Individuals with Puzzling Behavior in Inclusive Schools.
Asking the Essential Questions About Secondary School Curriculum: Maximizing Learning Opportunities and Outcomes for All Students.
Dr. Norman Kunc
Dr. Cheryl Jorgensen
2001
Building Community.Making Inclusion Work: Opportunities and Challenges in Secondary Education.
Dr. Al Condeluci
Dr. Jean Hewitt
2002
2003
Dr. Al Condeluci
Lockview SS Nova Scotia
Cultural Shifting: Building Social Capital; and, Building Classrooms as Communities. All Students Need a Life!
Every Student Belongs: Using Multiple Intelligences to Promote Full Inclusion in the Classroom; 8 Kinds of Smart and 8 Kinds of Teaching.
Dr. Thomas Armstrong
2004
Changing Organizational Cultures: Caring and Effective Education; Exchanging dissonance for Harmony: Creative Responses to Students Experiencing Behavioral and Emotional Challenges.
Dr. Rich Villa
2005
Creating Classrooms for All Students: An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL); and, Applying the Concepts of UDL Using Assistive Technology.
Don Johnston and Claire Zeijdel
2006
Disability is Natural and Other Revolutionary Common Sense; and, The Moral Imperative of Inclusion: High Hopes, Big Dreams and Great Expectations.
Coordinator, Lambton College CICE Program (Community Integration through Cooperative Education).
Kathie Snow
Gerry Page
2007
Re-conceptualizing Inclusion Through the Lens of Belonging: From the Classroom to the Globe.
High School Inclusion: Supporting Students with Disabilities to be Real Members of High School Communities.
Dr. Sheila Bennett
Carol Tashie
2008
Inclusion Indicators Literacy and Inclusion
Including Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Delivery Model for Inclusion
Dr. Jacqueline Specht, Marilyn Dolmage;
Dr. Tiffany Gallagher, Deb Dempsey,
Colleen Riggin;
Jennifer Benedetti, Mary Hickey,
Joan Waringer
2009
OSAPAC Software Differentiating Instruction
SMART Inclusion
Transition Planning
Children’s Mental Health
Including Students with Sensory Processing Needs; and Accommodations at the Secondary School level
Brant Haldimand Norfolk CDSB
Lambton-Kent DSB
London DCSB
Transition Planners
Parents for Children’s Mental Health
London District CSB
2010
Reaching All Learners.
Inclusion: There’s an App for That! (Apple Canada Inc.)
Catherine Montreuil
Ron Policcichio
2011
Teaching to Diversity: The Three Block Model of Inclusive Education
Dr. Jennifer Katz
U Manitoba Education
2012
Inclusive Inquiry in the 21st Century Classroom.
2013
Kerri Steel,
Qualicum SD, BC
2014
Donna McGhie-Richmond
“Making it Work”
2016, 2017
2018
2019
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Kelly Dunlap, Maureen Ziegler (2017)
Amethyst Demonstration School
Brant Haldimand Norfolk CDSB
Huron-Perth CDSB
Tecla Bruckschwaiger, Lyndsay King, Janell Hurlbut, Thames Valley DSB;
Becki gordon, Rebecca Wattman, Skills 4 Life; Charmaine chadwick, Deb McCarthy, Huron-Perth CDSB
Navigating Current Themes in Inclusive Education
"It Takes A Village"
Sharing our Best Practices:
The Role of the Educational Assistant in INdependence & INclusion
Curriculum Modification: Lifelong Learning