Joyful Inclusion Schools
Rebuilding Hope.
Empowering Change.
Sustaining Inclusion.
You didn’t become a school leader to manage initiative fatigue.
You stepped into leadership to build a vibrant community where every single faculty member and learner belongs, collaborates, and thrives - no exceptions. Yet, between competing mandates, scarce resources, and deep professional overwhelm, it is easy for school cultures to shift from inspired growth to survival mode.
Real, sustainable change does not come from delivering more information or adding more checklists.
It requires restoring hope.
Moving from Intention to Action
We partner with forward thinking schools to implement an evidence-based, practical strategy for system-wide transformation. Grounded in the cognitive Science of Hope and high leverage special education practices, our customized wrap-around support focuses on building the Five Key Pillars of Collective Success:
Hope
The Vision: We support your team to collaboratively construct a clear, compelling vision of what is possible for your inclusive school community using future-mapping workshops, engaging diverse stakeholder voices from the start.
Pathways
The Strategy: We map out a realistic, navigable route to your vision, pro-actively addressing obstacles and equipping your staff with evidence-based, high-leverage instructional routines and personal implementation guides.
Agency
The Action: We foster systems where your faculty shifts from frustration to action, building the internal energy, ownership, and confidence required to initiate and pursue their own professional growth.
Collective Efficacy
The Collaboration: We compound your faculty’s individual strengths through activities designed to promote collective problem solving, using structured, classroom-based coaching and collaborative challenges that eliminate professional isolation.
Student Success
The Outcome: We measure true impact beyond standard achievement metrics, including hope scales and qualitative measures.
A Customized Partnership Tailored to Your School’s Assets
We do not believe in one-size-fits-all strategic plans. Our customized solutions wrap around your leadership team and faculty to build a sustainable ecosystem over time. Your tailored partnership draws from three integrated components:
Leadership Strategic Planning, Mentoring, & Coaching
- Thought partner consultation to identify initial goals, intended outcomes, strategic approach, and progress measures.
- Scheduled monthly strategy Zoom meetings with additional calls as needed.
- Direct, reflective mentoring support for principals and district leaders to help navigate systemic resistance, align systems, evaluate progress, and sustain momentum.
- Champions Mastermind - A national cohort of special education leaders exploring the principles of special education systems change and Skills of Influence with like-minded champions.
- Principals Accelerator - A national cohort of school administrators (or your own cohort) discussing how to use our Principal's Guide to fill gaps and confidently lead special education on your campus.
- Joyful Inclusion Coach Certificate Program - Principles and strategies to build inclusion coaching capacity for your instructional coaches.
Evaluation & Benchmarking Options
- Compass Evaluation - Our initial on-site, multi-faceted data collection process featuring collaborative scoring to support your team’s identification of your current inclusive status and your unique starting point.
- Joyful Inclusion Value Evaluation System (JIVES) - Systems approach to identify improvement in practice (effects) and gather stories of change to share with your public.
- Data Dashboards - Ongoing tracking system for each school with five core indicators of inclusive practice PLUS faculty and student hope benchmarks.
- Joyful Inclusion Navigator - 10 minute self-diagnostic app that returns an inclusion score and personalized next steps. Summary of group scores are available.
Professional Learning for Faculty
- Joyful Educator Series Site Licensing - School-wide access to our flagship collection of online mini-courses providing flexible, personalized instructional growth pathways with CEH certificates available. Three options for implementation support.
- Joyful Educator Curated Library An online collection of our practical tools, valuable websites, and most popular blogs to support educators seeking solutions.
- Customized Live Workshops (virtual or on-site) - Our team prepares and facilitates interactive workshops aligned with your vision, strategic goals, and identified instructional gaps. We draw on our field tested frameworks and tools tailored to your strategic plan.
- On Site Empowerment Coaching - Our Joyful Inclusion Coach supports educators and staff with collaborative data analysis, strategic planning, and classroom-based feedback.
What People Are Saying about Joyful Inclusion:
“As a Principal I can say that the cost of participating in Dr. Pleet’s courses is minimal in comparison to the priceless benefit it will provide to your staff. It completely meets the mark in looking at the idea of professional development being an ongoing opportunity for educators to learn invaluable strategies that will forever change their classrooms.”
— Michele Savage, Principal
“Knowing and working with Dr. Amy Pleet-Odle always restores my belief that we can do this. She is that rare professional, advocate, and parent who has not just the knowledge and experience but also the abiding commitment to actualizing inclusion - of students, of families, of professionals, of education leaders and of policymakers - in holistic and sustainable change.”
— Debra A. Jennings, Prior Director SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
“We really didn’t know what we didn’t know until Dr. Amy Pleet-Odle came to us to provide professional development. Many times, the special educator gets ignored when it comes to PD, and we assume that they understand what co-teaching should look like. Our special educators and general educators now understand the different collaborative teaching structures and utilize them on a daily basis.
— Dr Rick Evans, Principal
Shift Your Culture from Overwhelm to Hopeful Action
True inclusion is not a compliance metric - it is the experience of seeing every learner succeed without exception. Let’s build a practical route to get you there.
Looking to strengthen your inclusive leadership practice?
Planning a school-wide training or event?
Every school and district has a unique starting point. Share a few details about your team, goals, and student population below, and Dr. Amy’s team will assemble a customized partnership proposal and pricing estimate tailored specifically to your vision.
Our evidence-based programs align with major state and federal funding (IDEA, Title I, Title II-A). We accept purchase orders and can work with your approval/ payment process.