Inclusion
Learn about how schools work to educate and include students who need extra supports in all areas of school life
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Leading and Teaching in an Equitable System
Daring to have real conversations with others holding different points of view is important. Practicing what we expect children to understand and do cannot happen with integrity unless we are practicing this ourselves.
Special Education
New Data Detail Effect of Inclusion on Teaching Time
Time spent teaching drops as the number of students with disabilities in a classroom goes up, a survey finds, but there's a complex web of factors at play.
Special Education
Does Inclusion Slow Down General Education Classrooms?
A researcher finds that teachers in classrooms with high numbers of students with disabilities spend less time on teaching.
Special Education
Opinion
To Teachers Who Worry That My Brother Is in Their Class
People assume kids with disabilities are all the same. They often see us as intentionally disruptive, rude and a hindrance to other kids' learning. This is not true.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
School Leaders, Racial Bias, and Hope
Unlike the POTUS, our actions will directly, and immediately impact children and families. So, we cannot be complacent.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How Schools Can Help Adolescents Become Responsible, Informed Adults
The lines that separate childhood from adolescence and adolescence from adulthood have disappeared. Rites of passage are few. But there is something schools can and should do.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
3 Important School Leadership Lessons From Charlottesville
Where but public schools do we create a citizenry with an understanding of the relationship between rights and responsibilities, between democracy and despotism and why our founders created three branches of government with different but equal powers.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
8 Questions to Help Leaders Prepare for Confrontation & Empowered Bias
There is an America that has been hidden for a long time that will enter schools stealthily. We must be alert and protect the values we embrace in our work with children.
Special Education
Opinion
I'm The 'I' in IEP, But I Need My Teachers, Too
Guest blogger Jacob Lewis writes, "If teachers knew what kids like me need from them, more students would benefit from it than they might think."
Special Education
Philadelphia Approves Scaled-Back $10 Million Special Education Program
The program will be an option for 100 students with complex behavioral needs, with the goal of reducing private school placements.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Searching for the Invisible, Forgotten Students
Keeping students at the center, considering those invisible ones while reflecting on the mission statement that includes 'all' students, one can find motivation to challenge the way things are done, and find new ways to make 'all' students a reality.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Good News About Mental Health in Our Schools
J. M. Myers M.D. returns as a guest blogger to write this two-part series about mental health in our schools. Here, in part one, he shares his view of the good news.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The President, the Little Girl, and Challenges to School Values
Whatever the reason for the style of communication being used, the lesson of its effectiveness is being taught, the attitude is being proudly shared, and children are admiring it. It is damaging and harmful.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
What Bathroom Will Your Transgender Students Use?
No matter the federal decision, let's join as educators and advocate that rights assured remain. These are our children.