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Building Bridges Response to Schumm and Vaughn

J L N "MEANINGFUL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPment in Accommodating Students with Disabilities: Lessons Learned," Jeanne Schumm and Sharon Vaughn offer a compelling picture of the difficult process of helping classroom teachers make inclusive classrooms rich learning environments for all students, including those with special learning needs. This is a story about the researchers' journey told with honesty and integrity. It is a story of strategies tried and lessons learned. It candidly describes perceived successes and failures. The conclusions offer suggestions for continuing the journey rather than easy solutions to dilemmas faced. The researchers do not offer quick fixes, but rather, document a 3-year process of developing learning for teachers that places value on both the personal information of teachers and the external knowledge base. This forthright look at the change process is one of the most honest I have read. Researchers often feel compelled to offer tidy answers to complex problems. That Schumm and Vaughn do not fall into this common pattern affirms the power of this story of change and instructional improvement. Something that we know about the change process is that it takes time (Fullan, 1991). Schumm and