Inclusion

While serving as a classroom teacher, I developed an epistemology and pedagogical toolbelt committed to maximizing access to standards and responsiveness to student needs and differences. Ample research supports that adoption of such approaches improves all students' learning, as well as other important social and emotional outcomes. However, school systems are often not equipped to create meaningfully inclusive spaces for historically excluded students, such as those labelled with disabilities, multilingual learners, and students of Color--and even perpetuate their exclusion from meaningful learning. I study systems that uphold exclusionary practices, with an eye towards how to improve them, as well as solutions to increase meaningful inclusion in schools.