Keys to Inclusion

"Keys To Inclusion" by Colin Newton and Derek Wilson

2011 Publication - Brand New!
Co Founders of Inclusive Solutions


This is a book about inclusion – a much used and misunderstood word. Inclusion has been a commonplace jargon word in the world of education and beyond over the last decade but what on earth does it mean?
We have spent much of our professional and personal lives as educators, educational psychologists, parents and co founders of Inclusive Solutions trying to figure this out and to work out what it will take to make inclusion a reality.

We think the word inclusion has many meanings each which lead to action - all of them important - and in this book we call these The Keys. We will take a close look at 8 Keys to inclusion and the actions needed if these keys are to open up fresh possibilities and lead us into new places in our work.


The Eight Keys to Inclusion we will deal with in this book

1. Welcome – is about understanding how we create a sense of safety and a sense of belonging


2. Learning to Listen – is about noticing, asking and paying attention to what you hear


3. The Long View – is about understanding where we have come from as a society in the way we respond to those are different and is also about creating a vision of what a good life would look like in 20 or more years time for the young people we are working with today


4. Painting Portraits – Not Testing Intelligence – is about finding new ways of knowing people who are different or who challenge the status quo


5. Learning - our learning - is about recognising differences in styles, preferences and learning the accommodations and adjustments that support those differences


6. The Intentional Building of Relationships – is about creating places and ways of working together that build, maintain and repair the spaces between people


7. Gifts - is about recognising and nurturing contributions that everyone of us has to make


8. Teams – is about understanding that inclusion, done properly, is more than one person‟s work.

This book is the perfect companion for our popular and much loved training 'Keys to Inclusion.'

'Be the difference you want to see'.

Published by Inclusive Solutions