Inquiry into practice

In Ontario schools the characteristics, backgrounds, and hopes of students are extremely diverse. Students, their families, and society more broadly count on educators to be responsive to their differences and to ensure that schools are safe, equitable, and meaningful places of learning. This report addresses some of the challenges that educators face as they try to identify barriers to equity and inclusion or try to implement some of the promising practices being developed to meet these challenges and create supportive learning environments. The aim of this publication is to increase understanding of different perspectives on inclusive curriculum, highlight a range of practices that teachers explore to enhance learning for all students, and illustrate how teacher education programs can better respond to learner diversity in today's educational context.