1:17 p.m.
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