The rehabilitation center we’re affiliated with is an old school adapted with an elevator and sliding doors at the entrance but does not have adequate change spaces. The only two change tables at this center are polar opposites in design and both entirely...
When my son was first diagnosed, I was handed a stack of white, legal-sized envelopes with the headings of clinics he would need to consult within the first weeks of life. Most of the departments I didn't even know existed, let alone know how to pronounce. In his...
Whether we homeschool or not, we are all teachers. In raising and educating my disabled son, I have struggled to find that fine line between doing school at home and doing life in the world. It's a never-ending conversation I have with myself: Teaching versus...
I was always a model student. I loved school, and I loved being a student. I still do. I love being a scholar with my pen scribbling fresh notes on innovative topics that challenge me. While teaching, I enrolled in a certificate program. It was held twice a week in...
I cried myself to sleep each Sunday night of the third grade. I was a newcomer to the school where the only other people I knew were my brother and a childhood friend—both not in my class.⠀ In a split 3/4 class where I was among the youngest students, I felt...
We don't need to be teachers to make a valuable contribution to education. Learning also happens outside the classroom and it requires community effort. Parents/guardians, step-parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, caregivers, neighbors, and friends come together to...
Diversity, inclusion, and equity are often used interchangeably, but they aren't one and the same. The definitions are complex and ever-evolving.⠀ ⠀ I like to look at diversity, inclusion, and equity in these terms:⠀ Diversity is the presence of differences in any...
If we're ever going to change this world, we have to consider who we're excluding. It's exhausting to have to put in extra time, energy, and money to adapt nearly everything we interact with.⠀ Whether it be curricula, articles of clothing, toys and games, the...
I cried myself to sleep each Sunday night of the third grade. I was a newcomer to the school where the only other people I knew were my brother and a childhood friend—both not in my class.⠀ In a split 3/4 class where I was among the youngest students, I felt...
We don't need to be teachers to make a valuable contribution to education. Learning also happens outside the classroom and it requires community effort. Parents/guardians, step-parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, caregivers, neighbors, and friends come together to...
Diversity, inclusion, and equity are often used interchangeably, but they aren't one and the same. The definitions are complex and ever-evolving.⠀ ⠀ I like to look at diversity, inclusion, and equity in these terms:⠀ Diversity is the presence of differences in any...
If we're ever going to change this world, we have to consider who we're excluding. It's exhausting to have to put in extra time, energy, and money to adapt nearly everything we interact with.⠀ Whether it be curricula, articles of clothing, toys and games, the...