In middle school, the inclusion program has sometimes been thought of as very intrusive. You're taking kids with disabilities and putting them into the mainstream. What's unusual about the case with Susan's students is how accepted they have become.

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She's responsible for a major attitude adjustment among the teachers on the team. She is as much of a core teacher as any of us. Many inclusion teachers are the odd man out who only cater to a few students. But for our team, she has changed that image. She is integral. We could not function without her.

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