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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.

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The ICI group at the International Association of Special Education conference in Bhutan in June 2026.

Feature Story | July 2026

ICI Brings Global Collaboration and Inspiration to Bhutan

In June 2026, an Institute on Community Integration group participated in the International Association of Special Education (IASE) conference in the remote, mountainous kingdom of Bhutan. GRC co-director Renáta Tichá (pictured at center) wrote this travel story. She is IASE's past president and was conference co-chair.