Welcome, Jenna Mancini Rufo, Ed.D.! We at Inclusive Schooling would like to give the warmest of welcomes to our newest team member, Jenna Mancini Rufo, Ed.D.! Jenna’s passion for inclusion was ignited by growing up with her sister, Nina. Today, we’d like to...
Working as a team with your co-teachers can be rewarding, exhilarating, and wonderful.? Yet, it can also feel frustrating at times, and down-right impossible at others. Very few teams feel they are without troubles, but this is not necessarily bad news. Problems are...
Love & Education: How Did We Get Here? Every year, Inclusive Schooling conducts hundreds of workshops and presentations with administrators, educators, and parents around the country to help them develop loving and inclusive approaches to supporting diverse...
Teachers – we are here for you! Winter break is coming and here is a little gift from us to you – a permission slip. Have a little fun and give yourself permission to relax. Let us know what’s on your permission slip! Share it with your friends –...
Thanksgiving is this month, and we think its a perfect time to focus on teaching students to be grateful in order to create happier students and classrooms. Gratitude is at the center of inclusive schooling, so below, we’ve focused on a few ways to foster a...
Imagine that you had a task that you were asked to do every single day that you absolutely hated because it was painful for you to complete. Or, you found yourself completely bored because you were asked to complete the exact same to do list every single day with...
This is the final installment of our September Self-Care blog series, in which we are encouraging educators to practice self-care for the purpose of a thriving inclusive classroom. Part 1 discussed how we can fill our own cup to fill others’, part 2 shared the...
This is part 3 of our 4-part series on self-care for educators with the purpose of developing a thriving classroom and school system. Part 1 talked about how we can fill our own cup to fill others’, part 2 discussed the transformative power of gratitude, and this blog...
This is the second part in a series of blogs devoted to self-care for educators in the context of facilitating a thriving inclusive classroom. If you haven’t read part 1, you can do so here. As a review, in the first blog we talked about how filling one’s “cup”...
Educators know that September can be a challenging month. It’s the first of the school year, and with the excitement, it also brings anxiety, stress, and difficulties as teachers, students, and administrators adjust to the “new normal.” One of the best things...
