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For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin.

The list, plus how stereotypes affect the way students perform in classes.

I really liked this article because I found it to ties into our discussions on Ruby Payne’s framework. In Ruby’s framework she emphasizes stereotypes of people of a lower class. This article attacks the common misleading stereotypes associated with people of poverty.

1. “Poor people do no value education”

2. “Poor people are lazy”

3. “Poor people are substance abusers”

4. “Poor people are poor communicators and linguistically deficit”

5. “Poor people are ineffective and inattentive parents”

Here’s a fresh take on a complex set of data. What if you took all the statistics about everyone in the world and boiled it all down into one question: what if the world was just 100 people? What if you took the billions and billions of people on Earth and made it so only 100 people could represent them? You’d get some super-simplified but interesting stats, that’s for sure.

Having an understanding of yourself, in turn makes you a better teacher

This Teacher Taught His Class A Powerful Lesson About Privilege

Being a Straight White Middle Class Able-Bodied Male can be like winning a lottery you didn't even know you were playing.

Praising the opportunities America offers, Will Smith says that prejudice couldn’t have affected his successful acting career because, at the end of the day, “everybody is prejudiced,” but “racism is actually rare.”

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What's the big whoop?

It’s Elementary

When she was 2 years old, Ali Stroker was in a car accident that left her paralyzed. Now she's the first person in a wheelchair ever to star on Broadway, in a show called "Spring Awakening." She's also the daughter of TODAY anchor Willie Geist's former high school basketball coach, Jim Stroker, who, she says, told her since childhood that she was a superstar, even as the world tried to close doors to her. Geist sits down with this daughter and father as they share their inspiring story.

I saw this on the TODAY show yesterday morning and it made me think back to our discussion from last week on disability in society. The video sums up one young woman’s journey to stardom despite her injury. I found it interesting that she was the first person in a wheelchair to be on Broadway after all these years we have attempted acceptance and inclusion. This probably comes from the aesthetics that a wheelchair would bring to the presentation of the show. An even more interesting part to note is that the particular musical she is in happens to also involve deaf actors/actresses. So it shows that she isn’t necessarily in an average musical, this one is exceptional with disabilities. (or at least that’s how it’s portrayed in the segment) I just thought it might be interesting to analyze how the media portrayed this particular person with a disability and what others might think about it. Is she becoming a “superhero”? Does the show make the audience “pity” and “feel bad” for her?

“I’m working at a preschool where we let the kids determine the curriculum. Say we’re learning about rocks, and one of the children uses his rock to...

Awesome.

I found this to be really interesting and great! In this course we’ve talked about all of these issues. Stereotyping of gender, Native Americans, religions, etc. are all addressed and better yet changed from the past! This is a great picture book example where these topics we’ve talked about are analyzed.

Not a label. Not a word. Not a derogatory term you heard. I'm a who. Same as you. Do you have a name? Me too. I'm a mind. A heart. A personality. I'm an equal part of the overall we. I'm a him or a her. A he or a she. Who am I? I'm simply me. A person. Not a disability.

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I love this for not only disabled students but for ALL students and teachers to use. School can be very very difficult for children with learning disabilities or physical impairments and these little sayings might help to ease some of that frustration.

"There is a very sad laugh hiding in those artworks," says artist aleXsandro Palombo, who has created a powerful series imagining Disney princesses with disabilities. In a few attention-g

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