Dr. Cassie Martin is an education consultant in Seattle, WA, who specializes in the creation and continuation of inclusive practices in public schools. She provides professional development for everyone responsible for student growth, including: administrators, teachers, para-professionals, and families. Her teacher-preparation programs focus on best practices in inclusive education, both in terms of teaching and learning and organizational systems. Dr. Martin’s teaching, research and consulting are guided by her passion to create inclusive school communities that work for all students. In her 20 years of studying what works and scales in inclusive education, and as a former special education teacher/inclusion facilitator and administrator, she has seen first-hand how inclusion leads to better outcomes for all students. In Dr. Martin's work at the Haring Center for Inclusive Education at the University of Washington she is currently partnering with OSPI leading the demonstration sites project, creating for inclusive education across the state of Washingtonn and partnering with the TIES Center out of University of Minnesota to help build statewide capacity to include students with significant cognitive disabilities.