Bring Joyful Inclusion in to your school or event - and spark lasting change.
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Engaging Keynotes
Perfect for district kick-offs, conferences, and opening sessions that need to shift mindsets, build hope, and re-energize staff.
Embedding Hope in Special Education
Rekindle the Joy of Teaching
5 Keys to Special Education Systems Change
Professional Development Workshops
Grounded in the cognitive science of adult learning, our interactive workshops are highly collaborative and customized to your group’s unique priorities.
Delivered in-person or virtually, we work alongside your team to design a practical, sustainable implementation plan that ensures lasting impact long after the session ends.
Special Education Systems Change
The shift: from scattered, short-lived initiatives → to a unified, strategic culture of inclusion
Using Hope Science to Reboot Special Education
Learn how to use the Joyful Inclusion Hope Framework in your approach to visioning the future, designing a systematic pathway, supporting professional agency, and building collective efficacy to improve student success with no exceptions.
Why Inclusion - Why Not?
Move past common obstacles and align your entire staff around a shared vision.
Time Travel to Your Future Inclusive School
Unify your school with a collaborative, interactive vision-mapping experience utilizing forward-thinking design.
Collaborative & Inclusive Teaching
The shift: from isolation & competition for control → to co-teaching teams that effortlessly share the load
Dissolving the Silos
Align general and special educators around cohesive collaborative routines, tapping into individual strengths for collective efficacy.
Flexible Grouping Options for the Special Education Continuum
Use formative data to strategically group learners, promoting collaborative learning and addressing learning gaps.
Putting SD (Self-Determination) into SDI (Specially Designed Instruction)
Align daily instructional methods with specialized learner needs and student agency within the general classroom.
Superpowers of a Paraprofessional
Empower and integrate classroom support teams to maximize their instructional impact and foster student independence.
Learner Engagement
The shift: from passive, compliant pupils → to self-determined, active learners who own their own growth
Included with the End in Mind:
Explore strategies to equip exceptional learners with attitudes, skills, and habits they will need for their personal dream futures.
At Risk or At Hope? Sparking Student Agency with Hope Science:
Refresh projections of what’s possible in teacher, parent, and student perceptions.
Family Partnerships
The shift: from adversarial, high-stress IEP meetings → to collaborative, trusting family-school alliances
Questions to Ask at the IEP Meeting:
Equip families with 6 questions to ask at the IEP meeting and the background to understand the responses.
Special Education Hero’s Journey for My Child:
Use the hero’s journey analogy to normalize the process of learning about one’s disability and learning to advocate.
Rethinking Family Engagement as Dual Capacity:
Create the context for trusting family partnerships through building capacity of both educators and families.
Let’s bring Joyful Inclusion to your next event
Whether you are planning a single keynote or a year-long district transformation, we customize our content to meet your team exactly where they are.
Bring Hope and Joy to Your Next Event
Partner with Dr. Amy Pleet-Odle to deliver an unforgettable interactive keynote or professional development session tailored to your school or district’s goals.
Wondering where your team needs the most support?
Diagnose your school’s inclusive practices in just 10 minutes.
Every school has unique assets and hidden gaps. Take our self-guided Navigator assessment to receive an instant, visual radar graph of your campus practices.
We can then use these real-time insights to co-create a custom-tailored keynote or workshop sequence that perfectly fits your team's goals.