253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

In this book, Amy Tondreau and Laurie Rabinowitz introduce the concept of disability-sustaining pedagogy, an approach that goes beyond access to help students with disabilities take pride in who they are. The authors draw from their own experiences as educators, as well as the voices of over 20 classroom teachers. The book focuses primarily on literacy instruction at the elementary level, but it offers valuable insights and practices for anyone who teaches or works with disabled students. It provides specific practices that are classroom based, moving from theory to the specific classroom. The book also integrates the story of people with disabilities, who are the largest minority group in the United States, into everything you teach.