The Preschool Inclusion Toolbox
How to Build and Lead a High-Quality Program
2nd Edition
Published on 31. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-68125-852-2 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of The Preschool Inclusion Toolbox will help programs, communities, and states increase early childhood
inclusion by improving their approaches and implementing related practices. This self directed guide can be used to evaluate challenges to preschool inclusion and then create policies and procedures that support appropriate placement of young children with disabilities in inclusive settings. Like the first edition, the book offers key resources for developing program level policies and procedures that promote preschool inclusion and help with changing public policies, if needed. Highlights and updates include:
inclusion by improving their approaches and implementing related practices. This self directed guide can be used to evaluate challenges to preschool inclusion and then create policies and procedures that support appropriate placement of young children with disabilities in inclusive settings. Like the first edition, the book offers key resources for developing program level policies and procedures that promote preschool inclusion and help with changing public policies, if needed. Highlights and updates include:
- Additional guidelines & materials for developing a coaching system and supporting ongoing coaching for preschool inclusion
- Increased focus on equity
- New information and updated research related to current challenges to inclusion
- Review of current state and federal policy statements related to inclusion
- Chapters on identifying program challenges, creating new policies and procedures, establishing effective professional development systems, and using evidence based practices for inclusive preschool classrooms
- Updated answers to the following questions:
- What tools do we need to effectively implement quality inclusion?
- What is effective inclusion?
- How can we comply with the law regarding including young children with special needs into our programs?
- How can we advocate for inclusion with families, stakeholders, and legislators?
- Readily accessible examples of policies, procedures, and strategies for implementation
- Updated forms, infographics, and checklists for supporting preschool inclusion teams at every level
- Resources for overcoming challenges and facilitating an action plan for building and maintaining a successful program
More details
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68125-852-2 (9781681258522)
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Persons
Erin E. Barton, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Barton Consulting, LLC, Nashville, TN is an international educational consultant and Faculty for the Pyramid Model Consortium. She has worked in the field of education for over thirty years in many different capacities including as a special education teacher, family coach, and university professor. She has developed the training materials and coaching tools for supporting the use of evidence-based practices in natural and inclusive settings.
She is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and directs research projects related to evidence-based practices for young children, policies and practices that support high quality inclusion, and effective professional development systems. Dr. Barton is an active scholar with over 120 publications in major journals, multiple chapters, and several textbooks related to evidence-based practices. Dr. Barton serves on several editorial boards and is the Editor-in-Chief of Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. She has received many honors including the 2021 Peabody Faculty Excellence Award: Service to Students and 2020 Chancellor's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. She also was honored with the 2019 Merle B. Karnes Award for Service to the Division for Early Childhood and the 2017 Distinguished Early Career Research Award from the Division for Research of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Barbara J. Smith, Ph.D., Research Professor, University of Denver Colorado serves on the Leadership Team of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) and was an early developer of the Pyramid Model leadership strategies. She is co-author, with Erin Barton, of The Preschool Inclusion Toolbox: How to Build and Lead a High-Quality Program published by Brookes. She has developed an online, navigable guide to implementation and scale-up that is being used by states in their adoption of the Pyramid Model and inclusion.
Brandy M. Locchetta, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, Carrollton is an Assistant Professor of Special Education and coordinator of the Applied Behavior Analysis program at the University of West Georgia. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis. Brandy has worked in a wide variety of roles at various system levels in early childhood and special education since 2001. Brandy brings a tremendous passion and wealth of experience and expertise to the areas of early childhood inclusion, applied behavior analysis in schools, special education law and policy, social-emotional development, social justice issues in education, and practitioner preparation.
She is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and directs research projects related to evidence-based practices for young children, policies and practices that support high quality inclusion, and effective professional development systems. Dr. Barton is an active scholar with over 120 publications in major journals, multiple chapters, and several textbooks related to evidence-based practices. Dr. Barton serves on several editorial boards and is the Editor-in-Chief of Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. She has received many honors including the 2021 Peabody Faculty Excellence Award: Service to Students and 2020 Chancellor's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. She also was honored with the 2019 Merle B. Karnes Award for Service to the Division for Early Childhood and the 2017 Distinguished Early Career Research Award from the Division for Research of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Barbara J. Smith, Ph.D., Research Professor, University of Denver Colorado serves on the Leadership Team of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) and was an early developer of the Pyramid Model leadership strategies. She is co-author, with Erin Barton, of The Preschool Inclusion Toolbox: How to Build and Lead a High-Quality Program published by Brookes. She has developed an online, navigable guide to implementation and scale-up that is being used by states in their adoption of the Pyramid Model and inclusion.
Brandy M. Locchetta, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, Carrollton is an Assistant Professor of Special Education and coordinator of the Applied Behavior Analysis program at the University of West Georgia. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis. Brandy has worked in a wide variety of roles at various system levels in early childhood and special education since 2001. Brandy brings a tremendous passion and wealth of experience and expertise to the areas of early childhood inclusion, applied behavior analysis in schools, special education law and policy, social-emotional development, social justice issues in education, and practitioner preparation.