Our last Partners weekend focused on best practices for school inclusion and preparing for mock testimony in January. Dr. Jill England was our facilitator on school inclusion.She said that inclusion one child at a time does not work and that systems need to change in order to help the most children and create lasting change. She recommended the following book and DVD as reading to follow up her presentation. Jill also gave us two websites on history and news for students that are worth looking at:
news-2-you.com and eyewitnesstohistory.com
She also brought lots of great learning toys and products like the EZ padlock for lockers for kids in middle and high school, and a film called Through the Same Door about kids with disabilities in college.
Bobby Goldberg, our speaker on Sunday, says advocacy is like a "constant drumbeat" and that we need to develop relationships with legislators in order to facilitate systems change. Bobby's recommended book is below, and she urged us to become familiar with the White Book that lists all of the Georgia state legislators. Dave and Bobby stayed for the rest of the day advising Partners in their mock testimony groups. I threw down a challenge to this class to beat the current Partners record of sixteen legislators to attend a mock testimony. Over the next month, they will invite their legislators to participate.The class of 2005 still holds the Georgia Partners record.
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