Educating All Learners Alliance

Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 03 “Our students with disabilities feel like they can make a difference”

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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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 02 ”We are a technology-based school”

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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Inclusive School Spotlight Series: Episode 01 “Our model makes space for kids to be who they are”

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.

 

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5 Minutes with Literacy Academy Collective

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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5 Minutes with Changing Perspectives

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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5 Minutes With Gallaudet University

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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• 5 minutes with Gallaudet University/LV2

 

5 Minutes with STEM4Real

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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5 Minutes with Diverse Learners Cooperative

Today we were joined by Brooke Allen, founding director of Diverse Learners Cooperative. Diverse Learners Cooperative’s mission is to create purposeful networks of educators, providing them with high quality resources and collaborative learning experiences that increase best practices for diverse learners and teacher retention. In doing this, their vision that students of all abilities and backgrounds will have access to high quality, inclusive educational opportunities led by empowered and effective educators, a reality.

Learn more about their organization and the ways in which they support educators in this episode.

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

• Diverse Learner Cooperative’s website: https://diverselearnerscoop.com/
• EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org

5 Minutes with Equity Institute

We are excited to speak with one of our latest EALA partners, Equity Institute. We spoke with Carlon Howard, Chief Impact Officer and Co-Founder of Equity Institute. Their mission is to  develop and implement innovative solutions for building more diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning and professional environments. This mission is a result of their vision of an antiracist education system that recognizes identity and human connection as central to the process of teaching and learning where all young people build the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in the world.

 

Learn more about their work to build up educators in order to best support students in this episode. 

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

• Equity Institute’s website: https://theequityinstitute.org/ 
• EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org

5 Minutes with The Arc

In today’s episode, we were joined by Robyn Linscott, Public Policy Manager for The Arc. The Arc is a disability rights organization that works with and for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), their families, and our communities to achieve change. They use the power of advocacy to improve the lives of people with IDD. The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

Learn more about their organization on a state and federal level, as well as upcoming initiatives to support people with IDD.

 

Mentioned People/Resources:

• Upcoming Event: Disability Policy Seminar (March 28 - 30, 2022) - https://disabilitypolicyseminar.org/
• The Arc’s website: www.thearc.org
• EALA's website: www.educatingalllearners.org