TCICP created Diagnostic Teaching Teams (DTT) in partnership with New York City’s Department of Education to examine complex learners through the lens of different school staff members, including school leaders, social workers, guidance counselors, and teachers. Complex learners are frequently referred to as “challenging”, “struggling” or even “troublemaking,” and for any single individual trying to…
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We are excited to launch a new component to our work, called Seeking Inclusive Advice. Submissions are reviewed and responded to by TCICP Staff. In my school, multiple student crises occur every day. I feel like the way those crises are handled do not typically result in positive outcomes for our students. For example, there’s…
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Charlotte Vinson, a graduate of Teachers College Inclusive Education Program and Middle Teacher at The Young Women’s Leadership Academy in the Bronx, demonstrates model inclusive pedagogies in her work. Here, she explains multiple ways inclusive educators can operate through her own examples, including positioning oneself as an activist educator and offering students opportunities to reposition…
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Picture this: A middle school social studies ICT team spends hours creating a unit plan centered around project-based learning, including multimodal resources, stations, and role-playing activities. They thought about different ways for learners to collaboratively work together, and different options for learners to choose from. Monday rolls around and they have all their materials ready….
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In the Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about how to foster inclusivity in schools and classrooms. But what exactly do we mean by inclusivity? How do we work toward greater inclusivity in classrooms? Inclusivity means that students have full membership in the classroom. This means, for…
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