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Save The Date! July 2nd - 4th 2026

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9:45am PDT

Workshop - Cultivating Anti-ableist Practice: Possibility and Pride

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:45am - 11:15am PDT

Leah Kelley is an author and storyteller, who invites educators to consider how our view of disability shapes our practice. She weaves lived-experience as an educator and researcher who identifies as Neurodivergent and otherwise disabled, and parent of an Autistic son (now an adult), with the ideas of disability studies. Participants will explore how we might engage and navigate conversations about practice and pedagogy, when we see and consider disability as a normal part of the full range of human experience.

The influence of ableism, the importance of the language we use, and various models of disability (Medical Model, Social Model, Identity Model, etc.) will be discussed and examined, as lenses and perspectives that shape our approach, understanding, and response to people with disabilities.

In this session participants will explore and consider opportunities to guide and support students with disabilities/disabled students in embracing pride, cultivating advocacy and self-understanding, and ask: how might we welcome students as being fully and perfectly who they are, in this moment… and then build from there?

Speakers

Leah Kelley

Neurodivergent Author and Education Consultant, Independent

Dr. Leah Kelley (she/her) is a Neurodivergent author, educator, activist, and education consultant whose work bridges the worlds of storytelling, advocacy, and inclusive practice. With over 25 years of experience in public education—as a classroom teacher, inclusion resource teacher (K–12), and SEL/Mental... Read More →

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:45am - 11:15am PDT
Imagine High - Room 141

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