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June 2022 email newsletter on disability pride, personal branding, and new publications.

Students deserve fair and equitable measures of their progress. Test accessibility is central to achieving that.

Valuable insights on VR services for the deaf education field.

How the lack of accessibility in testing and assessment jeopardizes your efforts to hire a diverse workforce (and what you can do about it).

👋 Welcome to The Latest, which will never cost you $5 per gallon. Was this issue forwarded to you? Get your own subscription!This month’s newsletter is 782 words — a 3-4 minute read — and is also posted on my blog. ☕️ Good Things are BrewingI am teaching my first…

A chapter by Kathryn Dawson and Stephanie W. Cawthon, Accessible for all: Drama-based pedagogy in an inclusive primary school, publishes today in the book The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education.Inclusive teaching practices are only as effective as their capacity to provide opportunities for all students to learn. Drama-based pedagogy,…

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A 2022-2023 Instructor Learning Community Grant has been awarded to Dr. Stephanie Cawthon and doctoral students Ana Guadalupe Vielma, Taylor Payne, and Henry Enrique Aguayo for their team project, Graduate Student Resources for Instructional Pedagogy. Designed to build instructor capacity for supporting an inclusive campus climate, ILC grants are awarded by…

Throughout my research, teaching, and thought leadership, I think about accessibility from a systems perspective. Where are the barriers to equity and access in education and employment? And how can we dismantle them? My professional experiences have long been shaped by educational assessment as an anchor. Educational assessment was the entry…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon has been announced as a featured co-presenter at the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Deaf Professionals Network Summit on April 27-28, along with DPN Standing Committee leadership Duane Mayes, Bedarius Bell, David Hankinson, and Kathy West-Evans. The newly launched CSAVR Deaf Professionals Network (DPN) is a…