Putting Inclusive Practices into Action
Class Length: 90 minutes
Designed as a forum for sharing specific school-based strategies to support inclusive practices, this workshop guides educators through a step-by-step process for evaluating, envisioning, implementing, and sustaining inclusive practices in their schools. The session includes time for participants to begin planning for the application of these strategies in their own classrooms and buildings.
Presenter
A nationally recognized educator and changemaker, Founder and Executive Director of Changing Perspectives Sam Drazin applies his personal and professional background to lead Changing Perspectives’s mission to strengthen school communities through social-emotional learning, disability awareness, empathy development, and inclusion. Sam was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder resulting in both facial anomaly and hearing loss. His experiences, both as a student with a disability and as a teacher working in an inclusive classroom, helped him recognize the importance of supporting students in developing the essential life and relationship skills that underpin equity, inclusion, and social change. The students and educators he works with around the nation are a constant inspiration for Sam.