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Strategies for Structuring Your Inclusive Classroom
By MeredithPolsky
In Original Articles
Posted January 11, 2016

Strategies for Structuring Your Inclusive Classroom

Structuring a successful inclusive classroom takes commitment and hard work. Thoughtful planning and intentional design will benefit all of your learners. Five strategies for structuring a [...]

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Without Exclusion, We Wouldn’t Have to Talk About Inclusion
By Amanda Morin
In Original Articles
Posted January 4, 2016

Without Exclusion, We Wouldn’t Have to Talk About Inclusion

A few months ago, I had the honor of being the keynote speaker at The Matan Institute for Early Childhood Educators. My topic? Defining inclusion in order to build a classroom for all students. [...]

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By Rabbi Rachel Ain
In Dvar Torah
Posted December 23, 2015

Meeting Our Children Where They Are – Parashat Vayechi

Fair is not getting what everyone else gets; it is getting what you need. This phrase, once the screen saver of Solomon Schechter of Manhattan’s Head of School, Benjamin Mann, is an extremely [...]

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Seeing the Ones Who Are Not There
By Ruti Regan
In Original Articles
Posted December 7, 2015

Seeing the Ones Who Are Not There

An old disability joke goes: A wheelchair user goes to buy stamps at the post office. She can’t get in because there’s no ramp. She calls to complain. The postmaster says, “That’s ridiculous. We [...]

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What Inspires You?
By MeredithPolsky
In Original Articles
Posted November 2, 2015

What Inspires You?

Sometimes you never know where your next inspiration will come from. One might go days or weeks or even months without having that moment that stops you in your tracks; makes you question [...]

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By Emily Ladau
In Cross-posted article
Posted September 11, 2015

What I Want Future Teachers to Know About Students with Disabilities

The following post was written by Emily Ladau and originally ran on Words I Wheel By. One of my favorite things about writing on disability is that it ignites conversations and sparks perspective [...]

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By Amy Schilit Benarroch
In Guest Bloggers, Original Articles
Posted April 9, 2015

Differentiated Instruction + Flipped Learning = Flipperentiated Instruction

In 2004, a man named Salman began tutoring his younger cousins. Since he was living in Boston and they were living in New Orleans, Salman decided to upload videos of his tutoring sessions to [...]

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By Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber, RJE
In Original Articles
Posted April 2, 2015

The Four Children of Our Passover Seder

We are about to celebrate Pesach. In many of our homes, we have been cooking and cleaning and preparing to read the story of the Exodus from Egypt. We will share stories and memories of seders [...]

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By Mary F. Meyerson
In Guest Bloggers
Posted January 13, 2015

Five Things Parents Want Religious School Educators to Know

As educators, we focus a lot on our students with special needs and our teachers. But there’s another piece that we need to focus on, too: the “parent piece.” I’d like to take off my educator’s [...]

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By MeredithPolsky
In Cross-posted article
Posted May 24, 2013

For Activist Who Founded Matan, A School’s Many Failings Hit Close To Home

Written by Meredith Englander Polsky, this post originally appeared on The Jewish Week’s The New Normal: Blogging Disability, May 24, 2013. In 19 days, my daughter will complete her last [...]

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