Submitted by: Susannah Flicker

Learning Support Department Meeting Notes, 2/15/22

We discussed the summer curriculum institute and the approach that our department specifically would take in terms of contributing to a curriculum assessment tool since, in our roles as learning specialists, we typically do not create/write a lot of curriculum.

Our discussion brought us to the conclusion that our approach to this is twofold:

1. Examining ways in which disability and neurodiversity is or is not represented in the curriculum across subject areas, and looking for tools and resources to promote more inclusivity in terms of neurodiversity and disability.
2. Gathering and documenting best practices for classroom teachers and learning specialists that promote equity and inclusion for different types of learners and that counteract the deficit model of ability and learning differences.