[Project.diverse] Re: MTSS and inclusion/sped

Here you go- I went back and pulled form a previous conversations that might be interesting to people as it outlines special and inclusion in the EU- EU country comparisons with links to the inclusion legislation. https://www.european-agency.org/country-information If I understand it- Finland has “part-time special needs education” can provided without a diagnosis- so needs based? https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-education-systems/finland/sp... But looks like they still have special schools- https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-education-systems/finland/se... MDB From: Burke, Mack <Mack_Burke(a)baylor.edu&gt; Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM To: project.leer(a)lists.it.utsa.edu <project.leer(a)lists.it.utsa.edu&gt;, project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu <project.diverse(a)lists.it.utsa.edu&gt; Subject: [Project.diverse] MTSS and inclusion/sped Like I said- every country is reorganizing their systems in some way right now and so we are all watching with interest- passing along- Portugal, Italy and New Zealand (along with New Brunswick, the Canadian province) to be are the four right now to be full inclusion- as differentated from “capacity building or LRE, or emphasis on inclusion- For New Zealand- they have retained some special schools- now rebranded as “specialist schools” https://www.education.govt.nz/school/student-support/special-education/sp... For overall NZ policy see https://www.education.govt.nz/school/student-support/special-education/ Three tiered MTSS https://hepikorua.education.govt.nz/how-we-work/flexible-tailored-model-o... Finland has adopted the three tier framework country wide? I was looking at some readings in preparation for a talk in Finland in November- still a while away, but they are being praised as an inclusion success story and lots of positive attention for their PISA scores. But they retained more traditional special education programing for tier 3 and there is a part time option to receive special education programming under a “non-categorical label” at tier 2. So they more reorganized the system to emphasis inclusion rather than abandoning the system. I don’t know how they handle the bilingual stuff abroad- there are Russian and Swedish speaking schools in Finland for example- and now a number of Ukrainian refugees (Finland borders Russia)- that they have to keep separate from the Russian students- Globalization 😊 It is the replacement of special education with MTSS and Full Inclusion is going to be an interesting debate coming up in the future- something many of us are trying to get ahead of…MDB Mack D. Burke, Ph.D. Department of Educational Psychology Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education Programs Behavioral Education & Assessment Research (BEAR Lab) School of Education, Baylor University