Disability Awareness Month: Supporting Students With Disabilities in Homeschool
July marks Disability Awareness Month — a celebration of disabled identity and culture and the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It’s a timely opportunity to spotlight the strengths of students with disabilities and refine teaching practices that let every learner thrive. Celebrating Disability Awareness in the Classroom — and Beyond Disability Awareness Month offers rich material for history, social studies, and language arts. Traditional school settings and homeschool curricula can benefit from activities such as: Reading memoirs by authors with disabilities, such as Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau Investigating key civil rights milestones, including the Capitol Crawl protest of 1990 Creating art projects...
Creating Safe Spaces for Learning: Addressing Bullying and Discrimination in Schools
Schools, intended as havens of knowledge and personal growth, can sadly fall short of this ideal for students. Bullying and discrimination, in particular, are significant issues in educational institutions, and can cast long shadows over students’ learning and development. Read on to explore the negative effects of bullying and discrimination, the importance of creating safe learning environments, and how homeschooling can be a viable solution to ensure a supportive educational setting. The Prevalence of Bullying and Discrimination in Schools Bullying and discrimination remain pervasive issues in the digital age, affecting students across the nation each year. These behaviors manifest through physical, verbal, and cyber avenues, targeting...
Embracing Diversity: Meet Georgia’s Friendliest Campus for Students on the Autism Spectrum
As an educator, I knew my son was language delayed when he was in the Mother's Morning Out program and his teachers couldn't understand what he was saying. Only his family (well actually it was only his older sister) could understand his needs. He was later diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum and Written Expression Language Disorder. I pulled him from public school in 2013 and built a homeschool learning team for him that included an Orton-Gillingham Tutor, a Montessori Math Tutor, a Biology professor from Spelman College, and I joined every WWII field trip that I could find (because he was immersed...