Learning and Professional Development
Unified Champion Schools: The Basics (PDF)
This resource provides a concise overview of the basic Unified Champion Schools concepts, strategies, definitions and data.
Special Olympics College Club Starter Guide (PDF)
Instructions for starting a Special Olympics College Club on campus.
Special Olympics College Unified Sports Intramurals Guide (PDF)
Introduction and overview to implement Unified Sports on campus through campus recreation department.
Special Olympics College Event Guide (PDF)
This guide provides ideas and steps for successful events on campus.
Socially Inclusive School District (SISD) Rubric (PDF)
The auto-fill assessment allows districts and schools to measure where they are on a rubric of social inclusion as a guide for setting goals and developing UCS programming.
District Growth Implementation Toolkit (PDF)
This comprehensive toolkit provides resources, templates and sample documents to support Programs in establishing districtwide Unified Champion Schools programming.
District Growth Implementation Toolkit Downloadable Resources
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1. Preparing Stage
The following resources may be used in the Preparing Stage:
- Unified Champion Schools District Implementation Course on learn.specialolympics.org
- Program Capacity Reflection
- School District Framework Tool
- Community Asset Mapping Tool
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2. Planning Stage
The following resources may be used in the Planning Stage:
1. Characteristics of Socially Inclusive Schools Resources- Social Inclusion Framework/Characteristics of Socially Inclusive Schools (CSIS)
- CSIS combined attributes talking points
- CSIS Survey
3. Partnership Planning Resource
4. Sample Leadership Team Agendas
5. Sample Strategic Plan Crosswalks
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3. Doing Stage
The following resources may be used in the Doing Stage:
1. Resource Crosswalk
2. SISD Implementation Timeline
3. Leadership Team Launch Agenda -
4. Evaluation Stage
The following resources may be used in the Evaluation Stage:
1. National Banner School Standards
2. Banner Recognition Rubrics
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5. Celebration Stage
The following resources may be used in the Celebration Stage:
1. Sample Press Releases- 2020 – 2021 SOUCS School Recognition Program Press Release Template
- Des Moines Special Guest Visit Press Release
- UCCS Press Release Template
- Cole Middle School Script
- Inclusive Mindset Des Moines January 2019 final Agenda
- LHS National Banner Recognition ROS
- McCabe Banner Cerermony