What the teachers experienced was a day learning about best practices for teaching writing for all students, with concepts of how to extend the learning and scaffold the learning built in. The old ways of having professional development for classroom teachers on writing instruction in one workshop and for special education teachers on access tools or explicit instruction strategies in another workshop are gone for us. Inclusive schools start with inclusive professional development.
Note that this encompasses both scaffolding AND extending the learning -- important for rethinking both special education and gifted education
