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I am Rhonda Campbell, and I have created a series of three professional development sessions along with resources that offer insight into a collaborative teaching model where teachers can bring their skills, training, and perspectives together to strengthen their teaching and provide stronger and more equitable learning opportunities for their students.

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In the first session, I used Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal’s Four Frame Model of Understanding an Institution, along with a fifth frame, Eudemonia, developed by my doctoral cohort to organize information explaining special education law and the rights of special education students provided for under the law.

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The second professional development session provides information on six different co-teaching methods. These models, which have special education teachers and general education teachers co-teaching, include:

· one teaching one assist,

· one teaching, one observing,

· station teaching,

· parallel teaching,

· alternative or differentiated teaching, and

· team teaching.

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In addition, this session explains how different lessons require different co-teaching methods. The session also provides short YouTube videos that model the six methods.

The third professional development session explains Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework and design process for thinking about unit lesson planning. This session demonstrates how regular education and special education teachers can work together harmoniously using Understanding by Design (UD) to meet all children's needs in a classroom.