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Every member of a school’s faculty and staff brings their implicit bias to their work with students. The most effective educators name and interrogate those biases, including confronting how they impact students, and actively work toward breaking them. The best way of breaking our natural impulse to generalize about people is to get to know […]

Activities in this workshop include a brief overview of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), the types of disability classifications, learning styles, and strategies that enhance an inclusive environment. We’ll also cover how to support special needs youth in after-school and explore what programmatic strategies can be utilized to better serve this population. School-Age Child Care […]

Differently abled students often face discrimination in the very schools meant to encourage and protect them. In this session, we will read true teen-written stories about being differently abled and maneuvering a world that considers that a flaw. We will review key terms like disabled, differently abled, neurodiversity, and ableism, as well as how education […]