#quoteoftheday: Students with #disabilities need inclusive classroom and community-based experiences to develop skills and identify their interests and passions to prepare them for postschool employment.
🙌When teachers request that students be pulled from their class, it's often due to fear and low self-efficacy. Building capacity and confidence in each other is as important as supporting students directly. 🙌 #LeadInclusion#globaled#inclusion#UDLchat
Building a culture of #inclusion is so much more than disability awareness. It's building a culture of kindness and empathy and shared responsibility. ALL students belong to all of us. #LeadInclusion
7 out of 10 children excluded from school have ADHD, autism or another form of neurodivergency.
It’s time to stop punishing them for ‘bad behaviour’, when in reality they are being failed by the education system time and time again.
The system discriminates against ND kids.
"What if someone had taken the time to see the potential in Nina? How might her life have been different? ...what an awesome and humbling responsibility we have as educators. What might seem like a simple decision can radically alter the entire course of someone’s life"
“Any change you can make, even just reading up on a learning difference, could have a significantly positive impact on a student’s life.” Good piece on small ways that #teachers can promote inclusive education (via @ADDitudeMag): https://t.co/L6xLo1eu0o #ldchat#inclusion
Over the past ten years, autistic advocates have transformed society’s conversation around autism — but much remains to be done before we can truly fulfill the promise of autism acceptance. Read ASAN’s statement on ten years of Autism Acceptance Month: https://t.co/jwU7k7r288
Better listening requires a shift from a reactive frame of mind to one which is more receptive—shifting thinking from, “what is the solution?” to “what is this person saying to me?” or “what emotions is this person displaying?” @EdSurge https://t.co/oYSEDDdCtJ
"How can I dialogue if I am afraid of being displaced, the mere possibility causing me torment and weakness?" Sustaining courage https://t.co/ppyugbfFBB Thank you, @CISEducation@kate_tav for (re)publishing diverse narratives and voices.