Facing the Storm, Turning the Tide: Using Practitioner Research to Meet Children's and Families' Needs in an Inclusive Setting (Report‪)‬

Abstract. The director and two teachers in an inclusive preschool, faced with forces within and outside the school that challenged school policies and practices affecting children with special needs and their families, responded by engaging in a year-long process of practitioner research. This voluntary, systematic, and intentional collaborative study of policy and practice was guided by four questions that arose from their personal experiences and convictions and the unique confluence of events in their context: * Do current administrative policies and practices match the current goals and values and mission of the school?