They sat around a long row of tables, representing faculty from six Oregon community colleges and staff from TRI. They were gathering for the last official time as a group of educators focused on the same mission - infusing into the Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum at their institutions the strategies needed to serve all of Oregon’s children, including those with diverse abilities.
The occasion was the final meeting of Project PEPI - Preparing Early Childhood Professionals for Inclusion, a four-year project headed by TRI's Patricia Blasco, Ph.D., and funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP - a division of the US Department of Education).
