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At school, Rose Hayes, 8, works with a team of teachers and therapists trained to help with her genetic condition. They set goals for her reading, give her physical therapy to improve her balance and make sure she stays on track. But for the last two

Palm Beach Illustrated

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PBI: You’ve worked to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion at some of the top independent schools in the U.S. before moving to South Florida to join Oxbridge Academy. What’s your why? Portlock: The old paradigm of “fitting in” was set up 20 or so

Tes

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It’s 2pm on a Friday, and Jack is sitting at his desk in his bedroom, calmly getting on with some algebra. At this time of day, he would more commonly be on his way to the inclusion room, having been sent out of his lesson for failing to focus on his

NZBusiness and Management

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The World Economic Forum says that as businesses emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, they have a unique opportunity to ensure that equity, inclusion and justice define the "new normal" and tackle exclusion, bias and discrimination related to race, gende

The Atlantic

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Strong progress has been made to integrate students with disabilities into general-education classrooms. Educator instruction hasn’t kept up.

NZBusiness and Management

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What is great leadership? Not the jargon, the mantras or the clichés, but real, honest leadership that drives and impacts and changes the world. The kind of leadership that enables employees to be better and businesses to thrive. This question has b

Tes

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Should children be educated at home? Considering the difficulties posed by the current pandemic, it’s perhaps never been more important to know where we stand on this question. Calls for vulnerable young people to be in school have taken on a new urg

Tes

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It seems like the obvious thing to do. The NQT is clearly struggling with the demands of preparing a unit of work for your whole-department planning. As her line manager, you want to alleviate that stress. So you do the most helpful thing you can thi

NPR

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Seeing his potential, one mother wonders why her child isn't held to higher standards at school, despite his learning disability.

Tes

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In 2008, researcher David Mitchell conducted a meta-study of inclusion, asking what really works in special and inclusive education. His recommendation? “Adapt the mainstream to suit all pupils.” It’s a powerful comment on an education system that qu

Tes

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The pandemic has been hard for everyone but, for many pupils with special educational needs and disability (SEND), and their families, the past year has been particularly challenging. Many of these families already felt marginalised and the sudden sh

Tes

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Bryony Evett-Hackfort, director of learning, teaching, technology and skills at Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion: The trauma, fear and uncertainty of the collective experience that has shaped every day since March 2020 has left a lasting impact tha

NZBusiness and Management

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Love, belonging, vulnerability and purpose aren’t words you traditionally hear when it comes to talking business strategy, but since joining Yellow NZ Ltd in 2018, Tracey Taylor has changed that. The chief experience officer for the digital marketing

Apple Magazine

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At school, Rose Hayes, 8, works with a team of teachers and therapists trained to help with her genetic condition. They set goals for her reading, give her physical therapy to improve her balance and make sure she stays on track. But for the last two

India Today

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✪ A global partnership was established with the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, Stockholm, which makes School of Social Work one of the 11 Right Livelihood Colleges RLCs) across the globe. RLCs are an interactive link between academia and civil so

The Atlantic

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Test scores and other routine measures of success matter much less to me than the lost experiences of learning together.

Sunday Independent

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ABOUT eight years ago I was asked to look for a special school for a boy from my home village who has Cerebral Palsy like me. Hitekani Bilankulu was in Grade 6 at the local primary school. Typical of me, instead of looking for a special school, I app

NPR

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The Education Department will not request waivers to the bulk of the federal law that protects students with disabilities. Disability advocates and special education are relieved.

Futurity

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A new model could help make college students working together in teams feel more included, according to a new paper. When Joel Geske, a professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, asked his students a qu

Woman NZ

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Tackling everyday situations in a wheelchair isn’t easy, but trailblazer and entrepreneur Grace Stratton is using her own experience to help others. She’s startlingly candid and describes herself as “incredibly dogged” – something that’s readily conf

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the wisdom of veteran teachers. Tracy Murray has witnessed

Los Angeles Times

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A Northern California high school special education teacher was arrested over the weekend after police said he created a "fight club style atmosphere" in his classroom, encouraging his students to fight each other while refereeing the brawls himself,

NPR

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As classes move online, many schools fear students with disabilities could be left behind, in violation of federal laws. The department calls this reading of the law "a serious misunderstanding."

Business Today

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At a time when inclusion is the byword for success, companies are going all out to ensure that no employee is left out or even feels left out in any way. That’s what is being practised actively at global technology company Accenture. Over the past fe

Tes

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The 1990s sketch show Fist of Fun features an anti-establishment teacher, Mr Kennedy, who wins popularity by smoking in lessons and dishing out alcohol on the last day of term. He encourages students to call him by his first name and he swears in fro

Malaysia Tatler

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If asked if she’d known that educational equity would become one of her biggest motivators for running MCII, Malaysia’s first collective impact organisation, Dipti Kumar would tell you what she’s told me: “Not at all,” the young CEO candidly shares.

Post Magazine

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At 6am, a short drive from the steel-producing city of Xingtai, deep in the rural flatlands of northern China's Hebei province, acrid pollution hangs heavy in the air and the monotonous land­scape is desaturated of colour. At the Mu Mengjie School fo

NPR

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We've heard from teachers nationwide about our investigation into Ballou High School. They say they see the same where they are: chronic absenteeism and pressure on teachers to pass students.

Futurity

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Two new studies highlight the problems with existing apps for students with special needs, their teachers, and their parents and work toward tools that do more to help children and the people who support them. K-12 educators have been using technolog

NPR

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The 13-year-old died two days after he was physically restrained by a staff member at a private school that provides special education services to students in California.