“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...

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...

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.” ...

Early on in my administrative career, I was asked to speak on a panel that would be live-streamed to the community. It was my first...

The year was 2011. Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was trending at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and I had just accepted my first...

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! In honor of World Down Syndrome Day, or WDSD, sport your most colorful and creative socks on 3/21. But...

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

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, inclusion documentaries and articles that were written… Okay, that might not be how the song...

In 2001, I entered the doors of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, armed with little more than an undergraduate degree,...

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

If you’ve ever resented spending what should be a perfectly boring Tuesday night scouring the dollar store for an elaborate school spirit...

Special education is perhaps the most litigated area of education due to the many rights parents and students are afforded under the law. ...

Santa has made a lot of questionable decisions if you ask me. Let’s begin with the surveillance - “he sees you when you’re sleeping and...

Today I took my eight-year-old daughter to a friend’s house for a playdate. There was only one small problem. The playdate wasn’t...

Over the years, I have seen my share of IEPs that are 50 pages, 60 pages, even 70+ pages long. I can best describe these documents...