I will admit I am fairly privileged to have spent the bulk of my career with inclusive education, under arguably five of the better inclusion teachers I could have ever learned from. The rest of inclusion, I have learned from listening on the sidelines. But my role in my career is slowly evolving, eventually, I […]
Read More How Do I Make The Gulf Smaller?We are starting our third year at Inclusion From Square One. There are a lot of things that have derailed some projects I’ve wanted to get going specifically involving Inclusion From Square One. When I thought about the original website, I really wanted this to be a repository of information so folks would have to stop […]
Read More Carry OnEveryone is in a literal different place with education right at this very moment. Some states have schools in session, others do not. Some schools are partially in session and some are hybrid and virtual. So the number one question: When do we get back to the way things were? Here’s the part that I […]
Read More How Do We Get Back To Where We WHowever you feel about the return to school in Fall 2020, the truth is that many districts will be going into at least partial distance learning. Distance Learning is not something that is naturally taught in most academic experiences. But here we are adults distance learning and Distance Teaching. Resources are scattered. It is not […]
Read More ‘Cause You Know We’ll Make It Through [Distance Learning]In the United States, the rights of people with disabilities has not been an assured discussion for a very long time. In fact, the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) is only thirty years old. I can frankly remember the day I saw the news on the television. While I was still just eleven years old […]
Read More Thirty Years of ADAThe world as educators are watching is once again in flux. However, our job as educators and members of a community is to shift to the needs of the community. Sometimes this will mean that we change to be a part of our local community and sometimes it means connecting our community to the world. […]
Read More One: Resources For DiversityWhen we look back at 2020, I hope the first words in history are, “This was not a choice. And look at what changes came about.” We’ve been spending a lot of time in the recent past weeks looking at the history of inclusive education in relationship to many events. And right now as many […]
Read More Shifting the SquareIt has been just eleven days since I got word my district was closing for nearly a month. That was not how this was supposed to go. We were going to go to work. The blog that we had been working on for a month would get published this week. Though, to be fair: no […]
Read More This Was Not In The Plan…October has come and gone. And Inclusion From Square One has had a rounding success its first year. We had thought that this whole thing would just be this one stop resource. And then we realized, we had more. So we will be back in 2020 publishing quarterly with different folks and talking about different […]
Read More We Return: March 2020With fall firmly in place for the Northern Hemisphere, school has been the focus of much of North America for over a month now. There are new students to help with routines, and there are new teachers to help with learning the process of being inclusive. “One more thing to do.” some grumble. And it […]
Read More More Than The Sum of Parts