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Every year, I intend to add to the collection of seasonal “gift guides” and tailor it to inclusionists who are promoting inclusive practices where they live, work, and play. Here are my suggestions for the perfect gift for the inclusionist in your life. (This post contains affiliate links.) Books Let’s start with everyone’s favorite gift, books! Here are some recommendations for your new favorite book to read or gift. Fully Included Stories to Inspire Inclusion Paperback by Michelle Tetschner & Stacy Tetschner Inclusion is about belonging. We all just want to belong-in our schools, and in our communities. Children with Down syndrome or other learning abilities are the same-they just want to be loved, have friends and a place to belong. #MoreAlikeThanDifferent We have gathered inspiring stories from families, teachers, educators and even principles who believe in our children. They understand that all children have strengths and talents and that everyone is capable of learnin

Who Tells Our Story? Imagine you attended a professional development session on race and equity. Before the keynote took the stage, the event organizer was thrilled to have a district share the work that they were doing.  The school district kicked off their presentation with a short video that highlighted their work around equity.  Their reel dazzled the audience as they boasted about their inclusivity, policies, changes, and data mines – but there was one problem.  The backdrop of the video featured a Goliath-sized depiction of a Native American painted one color from head to toe: red.  The name plastered above the rendering was culturally insensitive, to say the least. This is our story. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”  We can’t remain quiet. Photo by  History in HD  on  Unspl

When I was in pre-school, my teachers caught on to the fact that I wasn’t learning my numbers and colors like my classmates. Back in the late 1970s, many children with learning disabilities weren’t diagnosed until high school or college, if ever. I was one of the lucky ones to be diagnosed so young, and my mother was my advocate until I was old enough to take over for myself. In elementary school , despite my disability, I fell in love with reading. Through books, I was able to travel and meet new people. Other children were cruel, and I was bullied. The minute they found out that I was not good at something simple, like spelling, they held it over me. Even today, some people don’t understand. They think it is dyslexia or some other catchy new medical term. At the end of high school, I started to deal with my test-taking issues. I found that reading a novel before a test was an excellent way for me to prepare calmly. I was accepted to and finally graduated from Miami Dade College (M

Imagine this: an emergency room nurse gives birth to a premature baby. She gets a bill for $898,984 from her employer. She thought she had insurance coverage. Her employer says she didn’t sign up in time for the baby. What is she to do? ProPublica gets involved. This obviously is not an education issue. But it is an issue about what kind of society we are. “Lauren Bard opened the hospital bill this month and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, “AMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.” “Last fall, Bard’s daughter, Sadie, had arrived about three months prematurely; and as a nurse herself, Bard knew the costs for Sadie’s care would be high. But she’d assumed the bulk would be covered by the organization that owned the hospital where she worked: Dignity Health, whose marketing motto is “Hello humankindness.” “She would be wrong. “Bard, 30, had been caught up in an unforgiving trend. As health care costs continue to rise, employers are shifting the expense to their workers — cutting b

Jack Hassard taught science and science teachers for many years. He clings to the old-fashioned idea that “facts are facts.”  He is offended by the idea of “alternative facts” or the charges of “fake news” used to discredit anyone that Dear Leader disagrees with. A fact is verifiable. An opinion is not. He writes: As science teachers, we think of facts as a repeatable observations or measurements. In short, they can be verified. For instance, observations and measurements are dependent upon the observers and instruments used to make the measurements. The Uncertainty Principle There are limitations in our ability to observe. There are limitations in our ability to observe. Werner Heisenberg worked out this idea in 1927. He proposed the Uncertainty Principle. The Uncertainty Principle meant that there was a limit to measuring very small particles in the quantum world. Moreover, Heisenberg said that there was always an uncertainty if one measures the momentum and the position

The New York Times reported on a huge merger of newspapers. In August, Gannett, the parent company of USA Today and more than 100 other dailies, and New Media Investment Group, the owner of the newspaper chain GateHouse Media, announced their intention to join forces. Over the next two months, the plan breezed through the regulatory process, winning approvals from the Justice Department and the European Union. Last week, shareholders at the two companies voted yea. And now one in five daily papers in the United States has the same owner, under the Gannett name, according to figures provided by researchers at the University of North Carolina. The combined company will have its headquarters in Gannett’s home base, McLean, Va., and will be led by Michael E. Reed, the New Media chief executive since 2006. The job puts him in charge of more than 260 dailies — from small papers like The Tuscaloosa News in Alabama to big ones like The Detroit Free Press. GateHouse’s acquisition of Gannett

One of the better political cartoons in recent weeks came from Dennis Draughon at Capitol Broadcasting. It represents the Thanksgiving dinner where teachers and schools are sitting at a smaller table waiting to see what they will be given after everything is carved out for corporations and political interests. Sen. Phil Berger throws a wishbone to those at the smaller table while he gluttonously partakes of the taxpayer-provided “meal.” And yet many are blaming teachers and schools for wanting to be fully funded because there is a narrative that to do so would raise taxes on people. Well, before that happens, maybe consider: Stop extending massive tax cuts to corporations and wealthy people.  Maybe we as a state should not keep extending more corporate tax cuts for businesses and people who make significantly more than the average North Carolinian. We haven’t really seen the trickle-down effect from that here in our schools. Invest the budget surplus into our schools. The fact

GPAT 2020 Registration Form dates have been extended. The candidates can now register and fill in the application form until 10th December 2019. For more details, check out the updates section. NTA conducts the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT 2020). Previously, it was conducted by the All India Council for Technical Education. After qualifying in […] The post GPAT 2020: Application Form Dates Extended, Check Revised Schedule here appeared first on Next in Career . from Next in Career https://ift.tt/2J650QV via IFTTT

I’m genuinely confused and troubled by the political polarization we see and experience in different ways in our culture, and I’m trying to better understand these dynamics. There are multiple reasons for the fear, anger, and frustration which individuals and different groups feel today. Some of these factors include the emergence of “identity politics,” changing demographics, the power of social media to amplify outlier, vitriolic voices, the general decline of Christendom in the West, and the emergence of a 24/7 global news cycle which inevitably highlights conflict, divisions, and darkness over the better angels of our nature. In writing this post, I’m reminded of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lyric for Alexander Hamilton, “I wrote my way out.” In a much less extreme circumstance, I’m writing this post as part of my ongoing effort to process and better understand the cultural change and conflict I see all around, and determine how I can best choose to respond, live, and perhaps lead in thi