Elizabeth Sherley (she/her)

#Educator of students with #disabilities. Texas Master teacher. MEd in progress. #Advocate. Seeker of justice. #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #Inclusion

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

@gisdbuses It’s 10:20 and the bus has not showed up. I cannot get GISD transportation to look her up because she attends school in Mesquite and does not have a GISD ID number. My child has been waiting by the window for over three hours and no bus, no answers. I am beyond angry.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

Thankful for this reminder and discussion this morning. #DISD

[Ham Taylor @MCAWVU]

@AOC This is a fantastic response.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

We are working on telling time and I asked a student what time her favorite show comes on tv. Blank stare. I am old and irrelevant.

[Hillary Goldthwait-Fowles @hillary_atp]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but removing barriers to learning doesn’t remove rigor. #education #UDL

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

I find it funny/not funny that basically every single “special education” resource/program uses the same four stock images of people with disabilities.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

When you are a disabled person and called “special,” it is not a compliment.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

Disabled lives are not expendable. Policies must change.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

When nondisabled people identify disabled people as “special needs,” what they are really doing is revealing their ableism.
Special needs are human needs.
Disabled people are not burdens.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

If you are a “great teacher” but cannot or will not teach students with disabilities, you are NOT a great, or even proficient, teacher.

#TeacherTwitter #SpecialEducation

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

Illness and disability are not synonymous.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

The needs of disabled students only become “special” because of a lack of access and accommodation.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

@sarajo_ One Without the Other by Shelley Moore. @tweetsomemoore

[Claudia Center @Claudia_SF]

Read the blog by @DREDF Founder Arlene Mayerson and ACLU Disability Counsel @spmizner -- we can't let CVS get away with this #BackDownCVS https://t.co/5fk7Qf78wn

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

How is it that so many people pity disabled people and say that disabled people are an inspiration while trampling rights and justice for disabled people in every aspect of life?

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

Students with disabilities are general education students first and always. #SpecialEducation

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

This is so wrong.
#accessibility
PD: Screenshot of a shopping site with two changing tables. The standard baby changing table is $213.71 and the adult hanging table is $3239.99. (Both 25% off list prices.)

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

It is unjust that nondisabled people are the gatekeepers of access and accommodation for disabled people.

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

This morning, 100% of the students in our school were fully included and it was marvelous. Proof that it is totally possible.
#SpecialEducation #Inclusion

[Elizabeth Sherley (she/her) @TheLizFactor]

One of my students pointed out that sandals and corn look the same and I can’t stop laughing about it. #SpecialEducation