In October 2016, Gordon Porter, Director at Inclusive Education Canada, and Debbie met for the first time while Gordon was promoting inclusive education at a series of speaking events in Northern Ontario. Debbie told Gordon he had a significant impact on the course of her life despite having never met in person. In 1989 Gordon was President of the … Continued
National Inclusive Education Month Commentary #8 By Angèla AuCoin, PhD I’ve been passionate about inclusive education since the early 1990’s. At that time, methods and resource teachers where I worked were gradually being trained to spend more time in the classroom helping teachers help students. As a novice teacher in Yellowknife Catholic Schools, it was … Continued
National Inclusive Education Month 2016 – Commentary #4 By Diane Richler Being part of the CACL family has opened doors to many critical issues in human rights advocacy – the right to live in the community and not in institutions, the right to equal medical treatment which often means the right to live, the right … Continued
Gordon Porter, Director of IEC, gave a lecture on September 2, 2015 at Gimnasio Moderno, a school in Bogota, Colombia with a reputation as one of the elite schools in that country. Two-hundred and fifty teachers, parents and school officials attended the afternoon session. The school Rector, Victor Alberto Gomez, welcomed Dr. Porter to the school … Continued
Sheila Bennett and Jacqueline Specht have contributed a great deal to the development of inclusive education in Canada. They are both Education Faculty at Ontario universities. Sheila Bennett is at Brock University in St. Catherine’s and Jacqueline Specht is at Western University in London. Both have had public school and academic positions and have grounded … Continued
The People for Education report on special education in Ontario is timely. It is a call to action long overdue. A message Gordon L. Porter, Director of Inclusive Education Canada: Children in Canada have the right to go to public schools. It is a simple fact for most kids – but not all of them. We … Continued
Gordon L. Porter, Director of Inclusive Education Canada, was one of 4 panelists offering expert commentary to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva at a session focused on inclusive education on March 19, 2014. Maurizio Enrico Serra, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and Vice-President of the Human … Continued
After 27 years of inclusive education, the Ministry of Education in New Brunswick issues the first official policy on the subject. On September 17, 2013, Education Minister Hon. Jody Carr completed three years of work on strengthening the inclusive education program in the province by signing the first province wide policy on inclusive education. Policy … Continued
Hon. Jody Carr, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, has emphasized the need for New Brunswick schools to improve student learning and do so in an inclusive context. “We need to increase student success in learning in our province,” Carr said, “and we need to build on the 25 year effort to make our … Continued
CACL Regional Consultation Reports – 2002-2004 Ontario Meeting #2 – 2004 Ontario Meeting #1 – 2003 Atlantic Regional Meeting – 2003 Saskatchewan Meeting – 2003 Western Regional Meeting – 2003 Two meetings took place at the University of Calgary in Alberta on March 13th and 14th, 2003 and were attended by representatives from Alberta, Manitoba, … Continued
