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students feel fully included in class. Jackie:Touring another school that did universal co-teaching “you won’t be able to tell who the gen ed and special ed teachers are.”This is really powerful in a lot of ways.This doesn’t mean what we’re doing today isn’t working.For a lot of kids it ’s working really well and some teachers like to have specific focus areas.It’s an important conversation to find a way to introduce a pilot and make some progress here. For budget reasons we can’t do this in every classroom.At one school they had a co-teaching class per grade.But this could create a perception of inequity or difference.Which groups of students would be in the class?If it was students with the most needs then the classroom would have a lot of adults in it.Leaning towards moderate needs and gen-ed in the classroom.Would co-teaching roll up to the next grade? Ryan:Is there data showing which years co-teaching has the most benefit?Jackie:Not really,in K we already have a lot of assistant coverage in the classrooms and fewer kids on IEPs.So K probably needs this less.Liz:Could argue either way for earlier or later. Melissa:Kids are used to multiple adults in K and 1. Seems to drop off in 2nd grade.Might be natural to try at 2nd Rory:Co-teachers spend a lot of time together,need to get along.Were looping classes (teacher follows students through grades).Looping can be great (hit the ground running)or challenging (after 18 months together kids start getting into sibling-like behavior). Jackie:Looks like we should keep co-teaching in the goals.Will remove the new curriculum pieces because they are now integrated into the curriculum.Data team and child studies are moving to district-driven while school will still work on how it applies.Literacy and math teams have been able to learn more and