Emily Ropars has worked in the field of early childhood education for 20 years. She worked as a developmental therapist and holds a type 04 with a special education endorsement. Emily’s career has spanned all early childhood settings: a Reggio Emilio inspired university lab early learning center, home visiting as a developmental therapist, early childhood special education teacher in rural Oregon, and Child Development Specialist for Head Start serving DuPage County. Emily started an inclusion program at a private school in Chicago, that is still operating and used as a model for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s inclusion initiatives. She currently is an LRE Specialist for Early Choices.
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- Making Inclusion Work: Adaptations and Modifications (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Partnerships and Teaming with Families, Professionals, and the Community (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Get on Board! (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Adaptations and Modifications (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Partnerships and Teaming with Families, Professionals, and the Community (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Get on Board! (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Adaptations and Modifications (webinar)
- Making Inclusion Work: Partnerships and Teaming with Families, Professionals, and the Community (webinar)
- Using the Inclusive Classroom Profile for Self Reflection
- Inclusion: Setting up the Environment (webinar)
- Inclusion: Membership and Belonging (webinar)
- 2019 Preschool Inclusion Roundtables
- Inclusion: Supporting Friendships (webinar)
- Inclusion: Environments (webinar)
- Practices that Support High-Quality Inclusion (webinar)
- Inclusion: Membership and Belonging (webinar)
- 2020 Preschool Inclusion Roundtable: Educating all Young Children Together (webinar)
- Inclusion: Supporting Friendships (Webinar)
- High-Quality Inclusive Practices (webinar)
- High-Quality Inclusive Practices (webinar)
- OLD FY22 Preschool Inclusion - Part 1: Moving Illinois Forward (TED-Ed Lesson on APPLES Video #189)
- OLD FY22 Preschool Inclusion - Part 2: Reflections on the Process (TED-Ed Lesson on APPLES Video #190)
- Preschool Inclusion - Part 1: Moving Illinois Forward (Moodle Course on APPLES Video #189)
- Preschool Inclusion - Part 2: Reflections on the Process (Moodle Course on APPLES Video #190)