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Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is an uncommon coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities. This podcast will feature people, resources, and useful information to provide you with content that highlights best practices for schools and educators. We hope you enjoy this podcast, find useful resources from our community, and use it for the betterment of all learners. Check out our website at educatingalllearners.org, follow us on Twitter @educateall_org, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel Educating All Learners for more information!
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Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities.
In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Cecilton’s Principal, Meghan Brown and Assistant Principal, Samantha Wallace to talk about two practices that are central to the school's educational approach: differentiation and goal setting.
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Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Planning Your Future: A Guide to Transition, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and National Center for Learning Disabilities, is an exploration of information and opportunities for students with disabilities during the transition to life after high school.
In this episode, NCLD’s Nicole Fuller speaks with Erin Crosby and Joe Urena, two young adults with learning and attention issues who have also served on NCLD’s Young Adult Leadership Council. They discuss the transition process, starting from planning in high school to college and employment, and how the Planning Your Future resource can be helpful to today’s transition-aged students and young adults.
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Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities.
In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Sam Podbelski, Interim Principal of the Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. They discuss the school’s history, how it has developed a culture of inclusion, and how they utilize schoolwide co-teaching.
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Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities.
In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Jared Savage, Principal of Fairmont Elementary School. They discuss using industry partnerships and student learning communities to expand and enhance learning opportunities for students with disabilities.
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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities.
In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Matthew Tyson, Principal of Tapestry Public Charter School. They discuss using technology to personalize learning, and what it means for the school to be fully inclusive by design.
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Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
The Inclusive School Spotlight Series, brought to you by the Educating All Learners Alliance and the Center for Learner Equity, highlights schools that are using innovative and promising practices to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for students with disabilities. Tune in as host Caché Owens speaks with school leaders from charter and traditional public schools across the country. Each conversation highlights specific systems and practices that make these schools excellent places to learn for all students- including students with disabilities.
In this episode, Caché Owens speaks with Jessica Tunney, Principal of Tomorrow’s Leadership Collaborative (TLC) Public Charter School. They discuss two practices that are central to the school’s educational approach: universal accommodations and schoolwide co-teaching.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
We spoke with Ruth Genn, one of the Founders of Literacy Academy Collective. Literacy Academy Collective designs and supports NYC Public Schools to bring evidence-based literacy instruction into the classroom. They partner with schools, families, community-based organizations, and institutes of higher education to bring culturally relevant, structured literacy to the most marginalized students at the intersection of race, income, and disability. They aim to to alter life outcomes by allowing children to access learning through literacy.
Learn more about their belief that learning to read is a civil right and the work they're doing to tackle NYC's literacy issues.
Mentioned People/Resources:
- Literacy Academy Collective's website: https://www.literacyacademycollective.org/
- EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org
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Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
In today’s episode, we spoke with Sam Drazin, the Founder and Executive Director of Changing Perspectives. Changing Perspectives is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2013 with the goal of working collaboratively with schools to support initiatives around equity, inclusion, and social-emotional learning for all students. Their goal is to educate, empower and inspire individuals to become the change makers for tomorrow, by helping to build a more inclusive, just, and equitable society.
Learn more about their unique learning models and the ways in which they help bring equitable and inclusive structure to the field of education.
Mentioned People/Resources:
- Changing Perspective's website: https://changingperspectivesnow.org/
- EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org
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Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
Today we were joined by Dr. Melissa Herzig, who is the Co-founder and Assistant Director for the Gallaudet University PHD in Educational Neuroscience (pen) Program and Scientific Director of the Translation for the Science of Learning Lab (TL2) at VL2 and her interpreter, Kelsey Mitchell. The NSF Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) works to advance knowledge on how human higher cognition is realized through vision. VL2 seeks to determine the effects of visual processes, visual language, and social experience on the development of cognition, language, reading and literacy for the benefit of society.
Learn more about their organization and the ways in which they work to develop new perspectives that enhance learning processes to advance education for all students.
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Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
We were joined by one of our latest EALA partners, STEM4Real. We spoke with Leena Bakshi, Founder and Executive Director of STEM4Real. Their mission is to provide socially just and culturally relevant STEM teaching and standards-based learning strategies through collaboration, professional learning, culturally responsive instructional materials and diverse children’s literature. This stems from their belief that each and every single child, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion or creed should be able to see themselves in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics.
Learn more about their work to diversify the STEM fields and why it is so important for students to have proper representation in this episode.
Mentioned People/Resources:
- STEM4Real’s website: https://stem4real.org/
- EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org
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