One Without the Other by Shelley Moore

Author:Shelley Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portage & Main Press

Figure 7.1: How to advocate for inclusion.

The supports listed above are not teacher benefits; they comprise a blueprint for inclusive education. Let us not lose track of what we are fighting for. There is a bigger picture to our negotiations framing diversity of ability as a problem rather than as a strength.

There is one more factor for inclusion to be successful. And, I argue, the most important one! Inclusion needs a diverse composition. Without this, we are simply cookie-cutter assembly-line workers. Without diversity, teachers cannot be the creative composer. This is our career, this is our skill, and we are skillfull composers.

Let’s look to our teachers as composers. Let’s consider them the skilled professionals that they are, collaborating together and delicately weaving the diverse abilities, interests, and characteristics of our students into creative, original, and carefully planned arrangements. And let’s allow our kids be kids, in their diverse mix, existing in our communities for us to serve, exactly as they are.

Let’s stop fighting for class composition ratios, and instead advocate for supporting our compositions in all of their perfect diversity.

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