Designing Across the Continuum: Tiered Supports That Build Belonging

Course Overview: This course introduces Alberta’s Continuum of Supports and Services as a foundation for inclusive practice. Rather than viewing tiered supports as a pathway toward segregation, the course reframes the continuum as a dynamic design framework that begins with strong universal practices and grows into responsive, layered supports that maintain student belonging. Emphasis is placed on proactive design, collaborative problem-solving, and preventing the over-identification or isolation of students who need support.

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Connecting Curriculum and Support: Universal to Individualized Planning

Course Overview: This course equips educators and support teams to align individualized supports with the curriculum rather than diverting students from it. It explores how to uphold high expectations while honoring variability, guiding teams to connect IPPs (Individual Program Plans), accommodations, modifications, and targeted interventions to the core curriculum. The goal is to maintain access, depth, and dignity for all learners.

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Curriculum Continuums: Planning for Access, Depth, and Growth

Course Overview: This course introduces the concept of curriculum as a continuum rather than a fixed point, emphasizing flexible entry and extension for all learners. It supports educators in designing responsive learning environments that allow students to engage with curriculum at multiple levels—through depth, breadth, and creative adaptation. Participants will explore planning models that promote meaningful access without ceiling effects, including horizontal enrichment, vertical scaffolding, and cross-curricular integration.

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Inclusive Early Identification and Response

Course Overview: This course equips educators with tools and mindsets to recognize and respond to diverse learner needs early and inclusively—before patterns of exclusion emerge. It explores the importance of observation-based documentation, culturally responsive practices, and strength-informed collaboration with families. Participants will examine how to avoid deficit-based referrals by embedding responsive supports into everyday classroom practice and how to align early response with Alberta’s inclusive education policies.

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Sustaining Inclusive Systems: Tools for Planning, Teaming, and Growth

Course Overview: This course supports educators and leaders in sustaining inclusive practices over time by focusing on collaborative planning, effective teaming, and strategic growth. Participants will explore how to align school structures with inclusive values, build team capacity, and embed inclusive decision-making into everyday practice. Emphasis is placed on developing shared ownership, iterative improvement cycles, and tools that help inclusive systems thrive—even amid staffing changes, complex needs, and competing demands.​

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Classroom-Based Problem-Solving Teams: A Tier 1 Strategy for Inclusion​

Course Overview: This course introduces classroom-based problem-solving teams as a proactive, Tier 1 strategy that empowers educators to support student diversity through collective wisdom. Rather than defaulting to referral pathways, this approach fosters collaboration within instructional teams to address barriers, design supports, and monitor impact—all while keeping students in their classroom communities. Participants will explore facilitation strategies, decision-making tools, and documentation methods that make team-based solutions both feasible and effective.​​