Inclusive Schools Week

Date: July 12

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Location: Virtually (Link will be provided closer to the date here)

To launch the Disability Cultural Center, we will begin with a program dedicated to celebrating the range of beauty, creativity, and innovation that disability culture brings to San Francisco. Join us for live performances by all disabled artists, the majority of whom are BIPOC. Their work in art, music, poetry, dance, and literature challenges perceptions about disability and instead celebrates the beauty that disabled people bring to our world. We will end the program with a community-wide dance and fashion party. Whether you'll come to our virtual red carpet in your cozy clothes during a pain flare or want to bust out your most couture look, and whether you dance with the movement of your eyes or with your whole body in motion, we're here for it because the opening of the Virtual Disability Cultural Center is cause for celebration!

Date: July 26

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Location: Virtually (Link will be provided closer to the date here)

Cafe Crip will be a monthly opportunity for participants at the SF Disability Cultural Center to come together to talk about important topics within our diverse disability community. Participants will receive readings in advance, but the discussion is organized so that anyone can attend and participate whether or not they have a chance to come prepared. This event is led by Bianca Laureano, a talented facilitator who leads the group through community agreements and access principles to ensure that everyone can be a part of this informal community-building hangout. This month's program will follow our virtual night of Disability Culture on 7/12 with a conversation about the power of disability culture to fight ableism, both internalized and external, and promote disability justice.

Date: July 27

Time: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM 

Location: 151 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103

This collaboration between the Disability Visibility Project and the SF Disability Cultural Center will be in person at SF MoMA. We will host a powerful opportunity to celebrate the beauty of disabled people by inviting our diverse community to have their photographs taken and visit the museum afterward for free. Too often, getting your picture taken as a disabled person has caused harm, with clueless photographers who pressure their models to hide their disabilities or mask as neurotypical. Even choosing to submit yourself to being stared at through the camera lens can be hard when so many people with apparent disabilities face stares as a part of daily life. Here, our photographer Mia Robinson, a queer trans disabled person, focuses their work on how to celebrate disabled bodies and minds and rewrite the experience of being photographed. Each participant will receive a print of their photo sent to them after the event and snacks and refreshments as we socialize with other portrait seekers on this celebratory day, marking the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with this reminder that we're still here!

For more details and to RSVP, visit SF MoMA Disability Portrait Day.

1. Build a Peace Corner in your classroom or school yard. Create a quiet place for students to cool down and take a moment to regroup when they are feeling overwhelmed.
2. Put up an inclusion bulletin board in your classroom or the school hallway. Hang up pictures of disability heroes or student work on the topic of inclusion.
3. Talk about Inclusion and Inclusive Schools Week during morning circle and include various modes of communication. For example, use sign language, foreign languages, and augmentative communication supports (including photos, pictures, and assistive technology devices, etc.).
4. Read Inclusive books with your students that represent all marginalized students.
5. Extra Credit Assignment: Watch either of the district's virtual events: "Inclusion in San Francisco- From the Birthplace of the Disability Rights Movement to Today" or the Special Olympics Virtual Assembly with Phillip Gonzales and then write a reflection. 
6. Encourage and help students submit work in the SFUSD Online Inclusive Arts Showcase. Checkout the Inclusive Arts Showcase website for inspiration. 
7. Check out the Inclusive Schools Network or 30th Anniversary of the ADA celebration guides for resources and ideas for your school community.
8. Do some of the Champions of Inclusion Activities from the Inclusive Schools Network.
9. Join the “Spread the Word to End the R-Word” Initiative
10. Visit ADA30 in Color - a series of original essays on the past, present, and future of disability rights and justice by disabled people of color. Published and edited by Alice Wong, of the Disability Visibility Project. 

• Check out the SFUSD Inclusion Resource Guide, the Inclusive Schools Network or 30th Anniversary of the ADA celebration guides for resources and ideas for your school.

• Try these disability simulations from Misunderstood Minds or these video activities from AutismSpeaks.

• Join the “Spread the Word to End the R-Word” Initiative

• Read inclusive books that represent all students and families or start a book club using this Inclusive Book List from the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education. Check out this list of inclusive picture books and inclusive middle school books available on Hoopla from the SFUSD Librarians. 16 Fiction Books With Disability Representation, Children's Books Honored For Disability Narratives 

• Visit ADA30 in Color or follow the Disability Visibility Project

• Teachers - use these Special Olympics K-12 Lesson Plans or Teaching Tolerance classroom curriculum to build awareness and empathy in your classrooms.

• Family Resources for Talking about Race & Social Justice in the U.S. - SFUSD staff have compiled a brief list of books, articles, videos, websites and other resources for families to explore race and social justice with children of different ages. 

• Classroom Activities: Ask students to think about how their disability gives them "superpowers". Then have them highlight their unique strengths with a ____ is my superpower writing activity. Or discuss characteristics of what makes a good friend then use the prompt: I can be a good friend by ___________.

• Read these Inclusion Stories from A Mighty Girl to inspire smart, courageous and confident girls.

• Champions of Inclusion Activities from the Inclusive Schools Network

• BLM@SCHOOL // DISABILITY JUSTICE RESOURCES SAMPLER! - Curriculum​ - Lesson plans, classroom resources for all ages. A team of people from around the country work collaboratively to curate a variety of classroom resources for every age group. These resources are all free of charge and meant to be shared and used. The goal of these lessons and activities is to challenge racism and oppression and providing students with the vocabulary and tools needed to take action. 

• The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University studies and showcases disabled people's experiences to revolutionize social views. Through public education, scholarship and cultural events, the Longmore Institute shares disability history and theory, promotes critical thinking, and builds a broader community.

• Disability and Social Emotional Awareness Curriculum and Resources

• Don't be scared to talk about disabilities. Here's what to know and what to say from NPR

• How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes by SHRUTI RAJKUMAR

• What Is Inclusion? By Krystal Jagoo from Very Well Mind

• Disability & Inclusion Resources for Black History Month 

• Longmore Institute on Disability Newsletter

• Intersectionality & Disability by Keri Gray
• Crip Camp - the bay area story behind the ADA
• Superfest Film Festival
• A World Made for Disabilities
• Short Film about Playground Inclusion
• Including Samuel
• It’s Not about Fitting In
• What is Inclusion?
• Inclusion and education - all means all
• Being Different is Normal
• X Ambassadors - Renegades 4 min. music video 
• Wheels - 1 min tire commercial from Canada. 
• Runway of Dreams - NY Fashion Week Disability Fashion Show
• Harry Potter has Dyspraxia and reflections on his education
• Black Stories Matter | YouTube YouTube playlist (collection of YouTube videos grouped by topic) Check out #6 in the playlist.  
• Color Blind or Color Brave? | TED TalksMellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President at Ariel Investments. 14 min watch
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? | The AtlanticIbram X. Kendi, Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. 10 min read
• “Unpacking Internalized Racism” | Making the Body a Home Ogorchukwuu. Self-guided course created for BIPOC
• Watch Forget Me Not: Inclusion in the Classroom - a New Documentary on Inclusive Education
• I Got 99 Problems. Palsy Is Just One. TED Talk by Maysoon Zayid
• I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. TEDx Talk by Stella Young
• "Disability Justice & Access-Centered Pedagogy in the Pandemic"
• "War on the Weak: Eugenics in America"
   

Check out our Inclusion You Tube Channel for more videos!

• SFUSD 2021 Black History Resource Guide
• SFUSD Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Guide
• SFUSD 2020 Latinx Heritage Resource Guide
• SFUSD 2020 Filipinx History Resource Guide
• SFUSD American Indian Heritage Month Resource
• LGBTQ Family + Gender Diversity Teaching Guide for Elementary Grades
• The Asian Americans With Disabilities Initiative's Resource Guide

• Celebrate African and Indigenous Cultures: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers from Learning for Justice
• Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice by Keith Jones from Learning for Justice
• White Supremacy Culture + Antidotes - reformatted so it’s easier to read
• Defining Anti-Racism: slides + a short video with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Robin D’Angelo
• What White Children Need to Know about Race - online article
• The Differences Between Allies, Accomplices & Co-Conspirators May Surprise You - online article
• To Breathe Together: Co-Conspirators For Decolonial Futures - online article
• We need co-conspirators, not allies': how white Americans can fight racism- online article
• Anti-Racism Resource Guide - online resource guide
• Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4804332/user-clip-conspirators - Bettina Love, Ally vs Co-Conspirator
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvU7uUgjUI - Joy DeGruy, A Trip to the Grocery Store 
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr-mt1P94cQ&t=2s Bree Newsome and James Tyson 
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkZNyRF2Qhc A discussion with Bree Newsome and Jimmy Tyson
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZZG2BWbgY  Ally, Co-Conspirator and Accomplice
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVNA4aF1lg To challenge the status quo, find a "co-conspirator”
• Video: Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of our Schools   Min 24-30
• Okun, Tema.  White supremacist culture.
• McIntosh, P. (1988).  White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack.  Retrieved from http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
• DiAngelo, R. (2011). White fragility. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3). http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/249/116
• Harris, C. (1993). Whiteness as property, pp. 276-287 
• "DO THE WORK!" with W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz | KQED

Click on the links in the PRIDE Virtual Classroom to find a fun music LGBTQ+ Playlist, LGBTQ Heroes choiceboard, virtual library, and more!

Embrace Diversity to Build Safer, More Inclusive Communities 

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”    
                                                 —bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

To uplift Transgender Awareness Week, we highlight these resources that emphasize why inclusive education is imperative and how the power of LGBTQ+ visibility fosters positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted.

Visibility is Power by Elementary educator Skye Tooley emphasizes the power of LGBTQ+ visibility in fostering positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted. From Learning for Justice.

Inclusive Education Benefits All Children by Melanie Willingham-Jaggers and the GLSEN Team. In confronting attacks on LGBTQ+ students’ rights to representation and safety in public education, we hold firm to creating inclusive and affirming learning spaces. From Learning for Justice

Advocating for LGBTQ Students with Disabilities - a guide for educators and parents/guardians on supporting LGBTQ students with an IEP or 504 plan

The Trevor Project - 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health

Disability Voices

“Disability is not a brave struggle or courage in the face of adversity. Disability is an art. It is an ingenious way to live.”
-Neil Marcus, actor/playwright

“Disability must be considered within an intersectional framework because it cuts across political, social, and cultural narratives and identities. An intersectional lens challenges the historically white, cisgender, heterosexual understanding of disability to more accurately reflect the narratives as told by lived experiences of disabled people.”
-Sandy Ho, community organizer

“As ‘invisibles’, our history is hidden from us, our heroes buried in the pages, unnamed, unrecognized. Disability culture is about naming, about recognizing.”
-Cheryl Marie Wade, “Disability Culture Rap”

“Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society.”
-Alice Wong, editor; Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

“Overthinking is one enemy of disability etiquette, but so is making assumptions about what a person wants and needs. Of course, individuals with disabilities want to be treated like everyone else, but when we say that, we don’t mean “treat every person exactly the same. We mean recognize our humanity and meet us where we are at.
-Kyle Khachadurian, cohost, The Accessible Stall podcast

The Heumann Perspective

The Accessible Stall

"Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement," from Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Disabled Standard (produced by former NPR intern Shruti Rajkumar)

2022 Event Highlights:

• Keynote Event: "Inclusion in San Francisco- From the Birthplace of the Disability Rights Movement to Today" Presented in partnership with The Longmore Institute on Disability, Support for Families, Parents for Public Schools. Check out our Keynote Glossary & Community Resources to learn more about the Disability Rights Movement in San Francisco and the various resources the city has available through government organizations, community groups, etc.
• 2nd District PTA 411 Wednesday: Inclusive & Accessible Meetings. Check out the slides and recording to learn more about frameworks and resources to make your meetings meetings accessible!

2020 Bitmoji Inclusion Classroom:

Check out our Inclusion Bitmoji Classroom to learn more about Inclusive Schools Week, Special Education and Disability Heroes!