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Resources for Teachers
This section provides information and resources for teachers and other school personnel about adoption, including State and local examples.
Adopted Children in the Early Childhood Classroom
Digest created by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
Adoption Helper's Teacher's Guide to Adoption
Provides basic information on adoption for the elementary and secondary school teacher. (Adoption Helper is based in Canada.)
Adoption in the Schools: Promoting Equality and Fairness for All Children and Their Families (PDF – 157 KB)
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute & Center for Adoption Support and Education (2006)
Outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues and proposes steps that educators can take to make positive changes in the classroom.
Adoption and School
Adoptive Families Magazine
Offers resources esources for adoption, including downloadable handouts and information for teachers, inspiring ideas for adoption presentations, and more.
Resources for All
Center for Adoption Support and Education
Offers resources for educators, including the SAFE at School program and others.
Families Adopting Children in Response (FAIR)
FAIR is an all-volunteer organization that exists to support, educate, and advocate for adoptive families and children. FAIR's publication, "Adoption and the Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers" provides information to help anticipate problematic assignments, communicate effectively, and support adopted children in school.
Adoption, Foster, and Kinship Care: Increasing Awareness in Your School
Adoptions Together's Center for Adoptive Families
Presents information and strategies for school professionals to work effectively with students and families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship care, and other family constellations.
Resource Guide for Educators
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Designed to help educators address adoption sensitively in a school environment.
School & Adoption: Navigating IEPs, IDEA, and Special Services
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Helps adoptive parents understand the services schools can provide to children with special educational needs.
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State and local examples
Adoption Awareness in the Schools
Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC)
Provides online resources from ORPARC's Adoption Awareness in the Schools program, which partners teachers and parents in Oregon's schools to provide positive educational experiences for adopted children in the classroom.
Adoption Competent School Assignments (PDF - 52 KB)
Minnesota Adoption Support and Preservation
Provides specific examples of how to remove bias from class assignments and create an inclusive curriculum that includes the experiences of all children.
Educational Resources
Child Welfare Training Institute
Presents information on special education services and community resources available to children in Maine.
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