Ungrading: The ambitious preparation of preservice inclusive educators
Watch video: Session offered at the CEC Division of Early Childhood conference 2020 (but in 2021!)
Special needs, exceptionalities, and more: Just say no to disability euphemisms
Euphemisms, or a more palatable word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing (Kirwan Institute, 2015), are pervasive…
Is School a National Priority?
I, along with everyone else, am navigating the twists and turns of fall planning. I have concerns, I have frustrations, I feel all the things we're all feeling collectively. And,…
Discomfort as Pedagogy
White supremacy is baked in to the very fabric of educational spaces. I've been reading a lot of the literature about anti-racist teacher education and I found an article I…
Awards, Inclusion, Trauma Informed: Can We Have It All?
Awards celebrations have long been a part of the school year and school culture. Honor Roll and Attendance Awards are so ubiquitous people have bumper stickers touting these accomplishments! In…
The (broken) promises of Higher Education
Growing up, I didn't know a lot of people who had degrees, certainly not advanced degrees. College professors were fancy, brilliant, suede-elbowed folx whose world would never intersect with mine.…
Trust
In January 2016, Mira and I were fortunate to present at the Visible Learning Conference in London. It was a very different conference experience than we'd had before but that's…
Student Teaching Cut Short
I am guilty of the occasional jump for joy when an unexpected snow day occurs, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine the closing of schools around…
Amplify the Inequities
One of the startling (she says, naively) things about this moment is just how comfortable we are with saying, "yes, not all kids are going to be able to access…
Humanize Pandemic Pedagogy
Week 3. We are beginning to feel the impact of both the sustained isolation and the spread of the virus. As more and more people are either becoming sick, caring…
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