Educator Membership Area

This is the home page for the Educator Membership Area. To view the content on this page and the pages linked from this page, you must be an active member. If you’ve landed on this page accidentally or from a shared link by anyone other than your school administrator, please sign up on our Education Member Sign Up page.

For help accessing this content for yourself or any team members, please contact us at info@DisabilityEqualityEducation.org

On this page, you will have updated access to the many benefits that membership provides.

Links may be updated periodically to keep this area for members only, so stop back if you find the link you were using is no longer working.

Please do not share the links and codes below that provide access to membership benefits. Thank you for your cooperation in maintaining the integrity of our community.

Zoom Drop-In Sessions

Stop by our Zoom for live interaction where you can ask questions, share your thoughts, or just get to know us and your fellow educators.

Weekly schedule

Typically Wednesdays at 12 noon EST - contact us for Zoom Link

Typically Tuesdays at 3:30 pm EST contact us for Zoom Link

Times will be added and adjusted as needed and posted here. To let us know what times would work better for you or your team, email us at info@DisabilityEqualityEducation.org.

Google Classroom - Disability Inclusive Curriculum Educator Forum

Join the Google Classroom to gain access to a community where you can ask questions, share ideas, engage in stimulating dialogues and explore compelling, useful topics with other educators (and DEE staff and volunteers).

Class codes will be reset periodically to keep the space for members only.

Join the Elementary Education Google Classroom - class code ga5ubib

Join the Secondary Education Google Classroom - class code 7pja5ja

Conversations with Educators and Special Guests

We’ll talk with educators about how they got involved in Disability Inclusive Curriculum, what works for them, what’s been challenging, and so much more. We will also periodically talk with disability activists, authors, and others with connections to education and disability. See all of these conversations in the Conversations Blog.

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A conversation with our founder, Alan Holdsworth

For the first installment of our Conversations series, we talk to the founder of Disability Equality in Education, Alan Holdsworth, about his background, his advocacy journey and the wisdom he brings to the table.  This first conversation was held between Alan and one of our long-time board members and volunteers, Sharon.

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Lessons and Resources in Progress

We will periodically post lessons are almost ready for us to share with the world, but you get a sneak peak here and can help us make sure they are just right. Submit your own lessons or feedback in the Google Classroom Lessons and Resources topic. See the newest below, or visit the entire Lessons and Resources in Progress blog to see what else we’ve posted.

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Defiant Lives and the Meaning of the Disability Rights Movement</a> Lesson
Defiant Lives and the Meaning of the Disability Rights Movement Lesson

Students will watch “Defiant Lives: The Rise and Triumph of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States, England and Australia”. It covers important milestones in disability activism from breaking people out of nursing homes to advocating for equal rights. The discussion topics in the film vary from institutionalization to passing legislation. The film highlights in particular the vast differences between the medical model of disability and the social model of disability. For 5 days students will watch a segment of the film and record their own thoughts and then discuss their thoughts with a partner and the full group. The last two days students will work together to create their own plan to address an issue in their own community.

Image description: “Defiant Lives” in white on a dark pink background

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