Podcast Episodes

In today’s episode, we interview Lisa Drennan, inclusion expert and founder of Merge Consulting. We discuss how families of children with disabilities can advocate joining community recreation groups like the YMCA or even a local summer camp. And that the strategies for advocating for change in recreation spaces are not that different from what we […]

In today’s episode, we interview Alida Miranda-Wolff, the author of Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last. We discuss how teachers can create cultures of belonging for their students, as well as how educators can find belonging in their schools.  This episode’s transcript can be found here. Take our podcast listener survey: bit.ly/TIPodcastSurvey. Visit Think

What is Critical Race Theory and what do advocates for inclusive education need to know about the Anti-CRT movement? For this super-sized episode, we share the story of an inclusive Maryland principal who was pushed out of taking a job as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director in Cherokee County, Georgia. A devastating side-effect of

Diana Pastora Carson is the host of the Beyond Awareness Podcast. Her TedTalk, “Walking with Joaquin,” chronicles her family’s journey to bring home her brother after living in an institution for 15 years.  She joins us on Think Inclusive to talk about her journey as an educator who advocated for inclusive education, what it’s like

Today on the podcast, we welcome Greta Harrison, the host of the Born Fabulous Podcast. We talk about the reason for starting “Born Fabulous,” why hope should be an essential characteristic of an educator, and the goal of inclusion is always life in the community.  This episode’s transcript can be found here. Take our podcast

Happy Friday Inclusionists! Today we have a special pop-up podcast interview with some folks I met at the CEC Conference in Orlando this week.   They presented a session called, “The Intersection of Race and Disability: Where Do We Go from Here?”  I think it is an important reminder for us that inclusion and equity

Today on the podcast, we welcome Amanda Darrow (Utah Pride Center) and Shamby Polychronis (University of Utah) to talk about honoring intersectionality between the disability and LGBTQIA+ communities.  We cover a lot of ground including the difference between gender/sexuality/sex, pronouns, stats on people who identify as both LGBTQIA+ and disabled, and ways educators can make

Happy Holidays! To finish off 2021, we are featuring four interviews. One that you haven’t heard yet, Lou Brown, and three that you might have caught in our feed if you’ve been listening for a while: Katie Novak, Alfie Kohn, Cheryl Jorgensen. The first is a previously unpublished clip from my 2019 interview with the

Today on the podcast, we talk with Anthony Ianni, the first autistic Division 1 college basketball player and author of the book, Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete’s Dream.  We talk about what it was like growing up, not knowing about his autism diagnosis until high school, playing for the Michigan State basketball team, and

Content Warning: In today’s episode, we will discuss depictions of the living conditions of institutions for people with disabilities in the 1960s and certain attitudes about people with disabilities that worked there. Today on the podcast, we talk to Howard Shane, author of the book Unsilenced, associate professional at the Harvard Medical School, and the