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Grant Application Questions and Answers
Here are our answers to the questions on a grant we recently applied for. Table of ContentsHistoryRoot CausesAction & Lasting EffectConstituent-LedCommunity-WideOrganizational Structure and Decision MakingMovement BuildingFunding and Community SupportCommunity Feedback3-5 Milestones History When did your group come together and why? Share major accomplishments and tell us about your recent…
10 Obstacles to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Getting human-centered, neurodiversity affirming, progressive practices into education, healthcare, and other systems is a battle, a grueling and grinding battle through bad narratives and bad framing. framing = mental structures that shape the way we see the world Our community of neurodivergent and disabled people encounters the following narratives over-and-over with dreadful regularity.…
Changelog: Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities.
We updated “Deficit Ideology”, “Structural Ideology”, and “Equity” with quotes from Paul Gorski and “Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership”. Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities. Paul Gorski So we define equity as the active process for identifying and…
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Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze
Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze
Briefly, deficit ideology is a worldview that explains and justifies outcome inequalities- standardized test scores or levels of educational attainment, for example-by pointing to supposed deficiencies within disenfranchised individuals and communities (Brandon, 2003; Valencia, 1997a; Weiner, 2003; Yosso, 2005). Simultaneously, and of equal importance, deficit ideology discounts sociopolitical…
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Fundamental Attribution Error and Harm Reduction Theater
Fundamental Attribution Error and Harm Reduction Theater
‘The irony of turning schools into therapeutic institutions when they generate so much stress and anxiety seems lost on policy-makers who express concern about children’s mental health’ Source: ClassDojo app takes mindfulness to scale in public education | code acts in education Mindfulness matters, but make no mistake: Corporations are co-opting the idea to disguise the ways they kill us Yet,…
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Principled, Pedantic, Non-compliant Canary
Principled, Pedantic, Non-compliant Canary
“I have my principles and am pedantic, and therefore I will not do it.” Source: Silberman, Steve. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (p. 96). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Readwise surfaced this quote from NeuroTribes, which rolled film on a succession of flashbacks of professional regrets, but also on an appreciation of my canary moments. Autistic…
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Reframing is Self-care and Social Change
Reframing is Self-care and Social Change
I used to tell my students that ideology never announces itself as ideology. It naturalizes itself like the air we breath. It doesn’t acknowledge that it is a way of looking at the word; it proceeds as if it is the only way of looking at the world. At its most effective, it renders itself unassailable: just the way things are. Not an opinion, not the result of centuries of implicit and explicit…
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Learning about neurodiversity at school has potential to support a positive autistic identity. The deficit perspective Maia and Ninja had can lead to negative effects on well-being. Ernie’s autistic identity was more positive and informed by other autistic people. Curricular materials developed from the perspectives of autistic people on how to teach autistic students about neurodiversity and…
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