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A teacher in a classroom in Armenia assists a student. The students are about 9 years old and are wearing school uniforms.

The Global Resource Center for Inclusive Education (GRC), housed at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration, works toward systemic improvement of educational programs, practices, and policies that affect children youth and adults with disabilities and their families around the world. Our mission is to provide sustainable and culturally-responsive approaches and strategies and contribute to the knowledge base of inclusive and special education worldwide. Our areas of expertise include Universal Design for Learning, Response to Intervention, teacher collaboration, data-based decision making, Curriculum-Based Measurement, self-determination, Inclusive Service Learning, transition from school to community living and employment, and more. We have collaborated with researchers, policy makers, educators, families and people with disabilities in the U.S.; Western, Central and Eastern Europe; East and South Asia, and Central America.

 In the News

Roma children dance at a museum in the Czech Republic. They wear brightly-colored costumes.

Feature Story | October 2024

ICI Staff in Czech Republic

Several Institute on Community Integration staff members were selected to join the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Delegation to the Czech Republic, which concluded October 9. They examined how the nation’s history, culture, and context shaped its approach to intellectual disability.

Amy Hewitt, Mikala Mukongolwa, Traci LaLiberte and others at the University of Namibia.

Feature Story | July 2024

Namibia: Community-Driven Priorities

University of Minnesota leaders in child welfare and disability worked with Namibian stakeholders last month to start a center for children with disabilities at the University of Namibia. Based on her work experience in another country with limited resources and infrastructure, ICI Director Amy Hewitt (center) emphasized the need for replicable models.