Inclusive Practice
Top Seven Science of Happiness Podcasts of 2020
Greater Good Magazine shares their favorite podcast episodes of the year to help you find meaning, connection, and well-being.
Torrie Dunlap – Isn’t It a Pity? The Real Problem with Special Needs (Video)
Kids with special needs are marginalized in our communities, and we are doing it with the best of intentions. Inclusion expert Torrie Dunlap, CEO, Kids Included Together, shares why we…
The Truth About Diversity in Schools (Video)
In this recording, Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak discusses why presuming competence is necessary to address the diversity of the modern classroom, how our intentions can lead to ableist practices, why the…
Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practice (Video)
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) is an educational framework designed to promote young children’s optimal learning and development. Learn more about DAP in this video. This book is a summary of…
Understood
Parents want the best for their children. We do, too. For the first time ever, 15 nonprofit organizations have joined forces to support parents of the one in five children…
Universal Design for Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom: Teaching Children of all Languages, Cultures and Abilities, Birth – 8 Years (Amazon Link)
This book by Pamela Brillante and Karen Nemeth, published in 2018, focuses on proactively designing PreK through Grade 3 classroom environments, instruction, and assessments that are flexible enough to ensure…
US Deparment of Education (USDE): Early Learning – Inclusion
The “Policy Statement on Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs,” (PDF) released jointly by the Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) on September…
Using Creative Play to Support Autistic Students in Preschool
Preschool classrooms are full of opportunities to learn through play. They can also serve as inclusive spaces where students feel supported in their social and creative development. But crafting a truly…
Value of Play Report (PDF)
Play is the ‘rocket fuel’ of child development. Driven by natural curiosity and an urge to explore and discover, play helps children master control of their bodies, activates their imagination…
‘We Cannot Afford to Ignore Disabled Voices:’ Changing the Way We Talk About Covid
Disability rights activist Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability, an NPR and Booklist editors’ pick for 2021, argues that ableist language holds us back from not only having more productive…
We Need to Talk About Ableism
Ableism is the favoring of able neurotypical people, and the exclusion and devaluation of people who are disabled and neurodivergent. Ableism may not be intentional (in the same way that…
What Educators are Learning During the Pandemic
Many school leaders and teachers are focusing on whole-child education, an idea that seems likely to grow in prominence in the future.