Coming off of a week-long vacation (and more time than I’d like to admit scrolling TikTok and Instagram), my “For You Page” was flooded...

A Letter to My Child’s Doctors/Nurses/Therapists/Social Worker, etc… Dear Doctor, You’ve met a lot of moms.  These moms often share...

Years ago, when I was a special education director transitioning a school district to a more inclusive service delivery model, I put out...

Twenty years ago, I was privileged to begin my career as an inclusion facilitator at a public middle school in Massachusetts. Let that...

Co-teaching typically refers to a general education teacher and special educator working together to provide instruction to a group of...

“I’m going to say something you’re not going to like…” This was my reluctant response to a group of 35 elementary school teachers during...

“You can’t possibly mean THAT kid?!” “What could THAT student with autism get out of my class?” “Wouldn’t THAT student with Down Syndrome...

Another year gone by, another World Down Syndrome Day in the books.  For me, it’s another year where something doesn’t sit quite right. ...

ATTENTION, PRINCIPALS! Do you want to sabotage inclusion? Set your teachers up for failure? Send kids back to self-contained classrooms?...

If you’re a devoted inclusionist, you likely spend lots of time racking your brain for the optimal tactic to reshape the belief systems...

Medicine and K-12 education have a lot in common…and it’s not the good stuff. I arrived at this conclusion during an unexpected hospital...

When you were little, did you ever end up with a nickname that made you want to crawl into a hole? Were you tall? You’re dubbed “Legs.” ...