Finding Common Ground: Tips to Promote Self-Determination in Inclusive Contexts for High School General and Special Educators

General and special educators encounter both barriers facilitators as they implement whole-school interventions with fidelity to make secondary schools inclusive for students extensive support needs (ESN). This article translates research into practice by sharing guidance from general experience implementing an evidence-based intervention designed promote student self-determination, the Self-Determined Learning of Model Instruction (SDLMI), providing tips on how build integrated system supports that promotes self-determination all students, ESN. Tips include (a) ensuring have opportunities (b) customizing instruction using SDLMI, (c) aligning SDLMI academic transition planning content, (d) finding your community, (e) leveraging implementation enhance collaboration.