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253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

Most special education efforts have focused on giving students with disabilities better access to the curriculum — but access alone isn't enough. In this episode, I talk with Amy Tondreau and Laurie Rabinowitz, authors of the book Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, about disability-sustaining pedagogy, a framework that helps students embrace disability as a cultural identity. We explore practical ways teachers can make their classrooms more inclusive, empowering, and identity-affirming for disabled students. Thanks to Alpaca and the School Me Podcast for sponsoring this episode. To read a full transcript of this episode and find links to related resources, visit cultofpedagogy.com/disability-sustaining.

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  264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers

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  263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning

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  262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts

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  261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps

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  260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice

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  259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone

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  EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.

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  258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars

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  257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad

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  256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion

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  255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea

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  254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again

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  EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.

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  EduTip 31: Be the first dork.

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  252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)