Integrative school development project

As an integrative school development project ( ISEP ) in Baden-Württemberg, the possibility was given to allow children with special needs to take part in lessons in a general school with additional support.

ISEPs were set up on the initiative of the schools themselves, if the responsible education authority approved this and the human resources were available. The first official ISEP project was developed in 1998 in the Gottfried von Spitzenberg School of the community of Kuchen and implemented from the 1999/2000 school year. Similar approaches existed at Montessori schools before.

The basis was a prohibition of discrimination explicitly included in the state constitution in 1994 and a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1997 that obliged schools to provide integrative education. This was followed by an amendment to the Baden-Württemberg School Act in 1997, in which the possibility of teaching children with special needs in general schools was given a legal framework. In the meantime (2009), however, the ISEPs in Baden-Württemberg have been "sneaked out" for lack of money, as it was said.

A similar project exists in North Rhine-Westphalia , the school experiment joint teaching in lower secondary level .