Inclusive Education Advocate

**Job Title:** Inclusive Education Advocate **Reports to:** Director of Advocacy & Family Initiatives Inclusion Alberta is a family advocacy organization committed to supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families in pursuing meaningful, inclusive lives in community through personalized advocacy and family leadership development. Inclusion Alberta assists individuals with intellectual disabilities, including those with complex needs, and their families in planning for and securing an inclusive life. This includes helping them make the most of generic, community-based opportunities, individualized funding, and ensure they have what they need to participate in their communities as valued members. We are currently seeking an Advocate who is passionate about inclusive education and would like to work with families, schools, and school divisions to advance the inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities in the general education classrooms. The Advocate will work directly with families and their children with intellectual disabilities, and with schools to address issues of access and quality in inclusive education. **Duties and responsibilities:** This list is not comprehensive; it is intended to summarize the primary duties and responsibilities. Staff may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific tasks. * Provide individualized support to students, families, and school teams: * Help school teams to include students with intellectual disabilities in all aspect of school life (academics, assemblies, field trips, performances, clubs, etc.) * Build positive, collaborative working relationships with schools, school districts and families to advance high-quality inclusive education for individual students with intellectual disabilities in K–12 general education classrooms. * Assist families to articulate their vision for their child/ren’s inclusive education. * Act as a bridge between schools and families; help schools enact a family’s vision for inclusive education within the complex realities of Alberta public schools. * Help school teams leverage peers as natural support in the classroom to improve the quality of inclusive education and feelings of belonging. * Act as a resource to teachers in inclusive classrooms: * Assist teachers in identifying access points to curriculum and/or modifying grade-level curriculum to be meaningful and accessible to individual students with intellectual disabilities. * Develop and/or identify practical tools, strategies and resources that bolster inclusive teaching practices; support the implementation of such resources in classrooms as needed. * Encourage emerging inclusive practices and help school teams to embed them in individualized learning and behaviour plans. * Assist school teams to develop modified learning outcomes and report meaningfully on students’ academic progress. * Ensure schools are recognizing and e