Listen in while Jessica and Amber introduce you to the amazing ladies and masterminds behind Windmill Denver, Dr. Jackie Joseph-Buzek and Mrs. Lorin Terrell, M. Ed, LMFT. We could not be more proud to be apart of this journey. Windmill was founded by a passionate group of parents and educators determined to create a better educational future. Today we introduce you to the model of Windmill Denver and our dreams of making this model of inclusion the norm for educational facilities all over the United States.

www.windmilldenver.org

Resources:

The Way to Inclusion

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Jessica and Amber discuss their new professional development book Conscious Classrooms: Using Diverse Texts for Inclusion, Equity and Justice Professional Development Book with authors Allison Briceño and Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica. 

Here is the brief synopsis from the resource:

When you look at all of the reading books in your classroom, can you be sure that each of your students’ voices and experiences are well represented? Drs. Briceño and Rodriguez-Mojicao created Conscious Classrooms to help teachers learn how to authentically include different voices and experiences in the classroom. They navigate the many questions surrounding diverse texts while also assisting with improving representation within the classroom. Highlights include:

Listen in for more information on how you could use this resource in your building or classroom! 

Today Jessica and Amber discuss how to manage some of our toughest or most challenging students in the classroom. Amber shares 5 tips on how to build relationships with these students and what has worked in the past. Jessica references Capturing Kids Hearts by Flip Flippen and shares a great social emotional resource www.imaginationsoup.net for mentor text we can use in our classrooms.