Urban Collaborative CollabCast

About Urban Collaborative CollabCast

The Urban Collaborative is a national network of more than 100 school districts. These leaders are committed to increasing effective and inclusive special education services. They are also focused on decreasing the disproportionality of culturally and linguistically diverse student populations in classification rates, separate educational environments and disciplinary actions. Members of our professional learning community learn from and support each other to achieve these goals. Join us each month to hear from experts in special education and disability advocacy.

Publisher

Urban Collaborative

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 May 2023

Latest episode

4 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

15 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Feb 2025

   Hanging On: A Special Educator's Journey into Inclusive Education

   Join this CollabCast where we talk with a former colleague from New Delhi, India, Kanwal Singh. Kanwal will be talking about the book she published in 2020, Hanging On: A Special Educator's Journey into Inclusive Education. This book even though written in the Indian context, is relevant across any context and as we talk today, you will see why. The book presents a compelling argument for transformation within the realm of special education. Bold and unabashedly forthright, the book confronts typically skirted topics, including the tensions between inclusive theory and practice, the stronghold of traditional 'expertise', the creeping in of commercial interests, and educator burnout.

2. 

   7 Jan 2025

   Importance of Collaborative Planning

   This CollabCasts theme is Collaboration and more specifically the importance of collaborative planning. Join us as we speak to Dr. Bill Henderson and Danielle Merdin as they share their experiences in developing collaborative practices and systems. As a principal Dr. Bill Henderson was able to set up systems in his school that supported collaboration between multiple stakeholders. Danielle was one such stakeholder, a teacher and instructional coach in the same school, she will share what these systems allowed her as an educator to accomplish and also how she continues to use and build on those lessons learned.

3. 

   3 Dec 2024

   From Why to the How of Inclusion

   Dr. Shelley Moore, a renowned inclusive education researcher, shares her five guiding conditions for building inclusive communities, empowering educators to design for all learners.

4. 

   25 Nov 2024

   DefectCraft: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Analyze and Address the Stratifying Force of Disability

   Dr. Alfredo J. Artiles presents the defect craft framework to analyze and address the stratifying force of disability, highlighting the intersection of ideologies about disability and racial disparities in education.

5. 

   3 Sept 2024

   Presumed Competence: Let's Invite Everyone Into the Field

   Join us for a conversation with DJ Savarese related to Presumed Competence. As one of only two AAC-using autistics to be fully included from kindergarten through college graduation and beyond, DJ will share with us his journey, and how he has been successfully designing and facilitating disability and social justice projects for over a decade.

6. 

   28 May 2024

   Maneuvering the System: A Student and Parent's Perspective

   Stacey Schultz, President of EducateLLC, a New York City-based company providing innovation and transformation coaching to educators and co-host of the podcast "Educate U.S.," and her son Lucas will both share their experiences navigating K-12 education and accommodations.

7. 

   30 Apr 2024

   Leading for All

   In this episode of CollabCast, we will have a special book reading and talk By Dr. Jennifer Spencer-Iiams who has co- authored the book Leading for All. She will be joined by her colleague Lauren Brigsby, Director of Student Services at West Linn-Wilsonville School District who will share the book’s impact on her work. The focus of the book and our talk will be developing inclusive and equitable school communities where all learners thrive.

8. 

   6 Feb 2024

   Learning Disability & Behavior: Getting to the Root of it

   Join us for a conversation with Dave Kiyvyra as he talks about the process of assessment, evaluation, identification, and then determining services and supports that occurred for his son in response to his Learning Disability. Dave highlights the link between his son's Learning Disability and the importance of recognizing that behavior is sometimes a response to frustration. He discusses as educators, if the focus is always responding to behavior, the root of the issue isn't being address.

9. 

   9 Jan 2024

   Journey to Inclusive Schooling

   Join us as we talk with Olivier and Hilda Bernier, who share a very personal story about their child Emilio. They talk about their struggles to have Emilio be a part of a general education class and how it impacted them as a family. They have documented their fight and struggle to have Emilio, who was born with Down syndrome, to be included in an inclusive classroom in a thought-provoking documentary "Forget Me Not: Inclusion in the Classroom," that looks into the continued segregation of students with intellectual disabilities and examines an alternative approach where every learner is included. Olivier Bernier, is the producer and director of this award winning feature-length documentary and his wife, Hilda Bernier, is also a producer on the film and a former special education teacher in the NYC public school system. We hope that as you listen to them, as district leaders, school leaders, advocates, in whatever role you might currently hold, that you are able to gain insight into what needs to be our continued work, how we might impact our systems such that these struggles that Emilio faced and we know that many children like Emilio face all over the country are eliminated and the assumption for every child is that they are able to attend the school that they would have if they did not have a disability.

10. 

    14 Nov 2023

    Literacy is a Civil Right

    Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com (https://dashboard.simplecast.com/accounts/7b2a72a9-c15e-4b3d-bc37-bab53f76a288/shows/a27e618c-1511-483a-b969-36fc9643801e/episodes/cef6a598-72b9-4795-a3e2-d4a8a16e4174/dasoultoucha.com) Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kriphopnation.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!cjOp1LAWszIlcAK_MUdb3Q6Tv_qRLP4P7sMOOI8pO8A2HeyEu58KnlMYSDFO47NrlRCjpRaouYek28fgu2CmwPgClw$) keithjones@kriphopnation.com (mailto:keithjones@kriphopnation.com)

11. 

    24 Oct 2023

    "Tell Me More": Educating and Supporting Children of Trauma

    Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com (dasoultoucha.com) Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kriphopnation.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!cjOp1LAWszIlcAK_MUdb3Q6Tv_qRLP4P7sMOOI8pO8A2HeyEu58KnlMYSDFO47NrlRCjpRaouYek28fgu2CmwPgClw$) keithjones@kriphopnation.com (mailto:keithjones@kriphopnation.com)

12. 

    17 Oct 2023

    Leveraging Community Assets: Culturally Responsive Schooling For/With Indigenous Students

    Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com (dasoultoucha.com) Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kriphopnation.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!cjOp1LAWszIlcAK_MUdb3Q6Tv_qRLP4P7sMOOI8pO8A2HeyEu58KnlMYSDFO47NrlRCjpRaouYek28fgu2CmwPgClw$) keithjones@kriphopnation.com (mailto:keithjones@kriphopnation.com)

13. 

    12 Sept 2023

    Multilingual Learners: Knowing Your Students and Research

    Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com (dasoultoucha.com) Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kriphopnation.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!cjOp1LAWszIlcAK_MUdb3Q6Tv_qRLP4P7sMOOI8pO8A2HeyEu58KnlMYSDFO47NrlRCjpRaouYek28fgu2CmwPgClw$) keithjones@kriphopnation.com (mailto:keithjones@kriphopnation.com)

14. 

    26 May 2023

    CollabCast Episode 2: Anti-Racist Practices

    Diagnosed with a learning disability in the third grade, LeDerick Horne is a dynamic spoken-word poet, an inspiring motivational speaker, and a determined advocate for all People with Disabilities. The grandson of one of New Jersey’s most prominent civil rights leaders, LeDerick uses his gift for spoken-word poetry as the gateway to larger discussions on equal opportunity, pride, self-determination and hope for People with Disabilities. His workshops, keynote speeches, and performances reach thousands of students, teachers, legislators, policy makers, business leaders, and service providers each year. He regularly addresses an array of academic, government, social, and business groups, including appearances at the White House, the United Nations, Harvard University, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, and the State Departments of Education across the US. His work addresses the challenges of all disabilities, uniting the efforts of diverse groups to achieve substantive, systemic change. In 2016, LeDerick and co-author Margo Vreeburg Izzo, PhD, The Ohio State University, released the book Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities: A Path to Pride and Success — the definitive compendium on transition support for students with LD / ADHD and other hidden disabilities — published by Brookes Publishing Co. You can learn more about him and his work at www.lederick.com. Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com (dasoultoucha.com) Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kriphopnation.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!cjOp1LAWszIlcAK_MUdb3Q6Tv_qRLP4P7sMOOI8pO8A2HeyEu58KnlMYSDFO47NrlRCjpRaouYek28fgu2CmwPgClw$) keithjones@kriphopnation.com (mailto:keithjones@kriphopnation.com)

15. 

    19 May 2023

    CollabCast Episode 1: Families & Communities

    Join us in a conversation with disability rights advocates Dr. William W. Henderson and Dr. Morénike Giwa Onaiwu as we discuss the importance of families and communities in the support of students with disabilities. Intro/Outro Music done by Keith Jones of Krip Hop Nation. His information is below: SoulTouchin' Experiences E-mail:Kpjones@dasoultoucha.com Web:dasoultoucha.com Krip Hop Nation Website: https://kriphopnation.com/ keithjones@kriphopnation.com

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Apple Podcasts (US)

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Podcast Authority Score: 23 / 100

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Engagement

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