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Title I principals highlight unified sports, co-teaching and classroom inclusion
Summary
Five Title I elementary principals and related-service staff described district-wide inclusive practices — unified sports, co-teaching models, AAC in preschool and vocational "tea cart" projects — and asked the school board for ongoing encouragement and local fundraising support.
Five Title I elementary principals told the Papillion La Vista Community Schools Board of Education on April 28 that the district has expanded inclusive practices across multiple elementary buildings, citing unified athletics, coordinated co-teaching, augmentative and alternative communication work in preschool and hands-on vocational activities as ways the district promotes belonging and peer relationships.
The principals — Seth Heively (Carriage Hill Elementary), Jamie Boyer (G. Stanley Hall), Jen Noble (Golden Hills), Amy Nichols (La Vista West) and Randy (Parkview Heights) — introduced staff members who described school-level programs. Natalie Diaz, a special education teacher at G. Stanley Hall, said the school has developed unified sports teams that pair identified athletes with peer buddies and follow Special Olympics structure for tournaments.
"Over the last couple of years, we have done a lot to kinda change the way that we've done some of our…
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