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Pasture Shrooms

Mushrooms after the rains.

Ryan Boren Nature, Plants Leave a comment November 11, 2013 0 Minutes

Homegrown Heat

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Ryan Boren Food, Photos, Plants, Vegan 2 Comments June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 0 Minutes

There Ain’t No Saguaro in Texas

But we sure got a lot of prickly pear.

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Ryan Boren Music, Photos, Plants, Wildflowers 2 Comments May 16, 2013 0 Minutes

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Design for Neurological Pluralism with Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes
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“What CAN be misunderstood WILL be misunderstood”
Foregrounding of Complexity as the Baseline
College Admissions Scandals, the New Aristocracy, and the Grading and Ranking of Children
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When I finally turned to social media, I found that the recommendations I’d been given for how to care for Edmund were incomplete and ignored the crucial perspective of disabled adults. On Twitter, I connected with disabled people for the first time. I devoured their tweetstorms, blog posts, and articles. I started to learn about […]

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They come into college quite damaged by school. And they perceive themselves as survivors in a battle. It’s particularly bad for writing because so much of writing is the ability to take a risk, to set a goal and risk failure. Source: The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die – Pacific Standard

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What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just […]

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Why don’t we know what PTSD looks like in autistic children? Why don’t we have a clear idea how many are experiencing it? I sense that this is because of the deeply problematic core belief in society that autistic distress is a ‘problem behaviour’ that is to be trained out of us. Looking at that […]

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I am repeatedly struck with the realisation that carers are unnecessarily complicating childhood and family life – while believing they have no choice. They would probably say that it isn’t their fault, autism did it. Or that they’re just trying to help their child to succeed. Or that noone else can understand (“Walk in my […]

Selections on Monotropism from Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate

Another theoretical account which might fall under the broad heading of integration and complexity is the interest-based theory, monotropism (Murray et al., 2005). This theory, developed by autistic academics, posits that the defining feature of autism is atypical allocation of attention. The difference between autistic and non-autistic people is characterised as follows: “It is the […]

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“Disability studies prevent disability dongles.” “I honor the friction of my disability.” Yes! Another great talk from Liz Jackson.

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I updated “Mindfulness in Education” with selections from “ClassDojo App Takes Mindfulness To Scale in Public Education (Ben Williamson) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice” and “School-Based Mindfulness Training and the Economisation of Attention: A Stieglerian View: Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol 47, No 8”. James Reveley has further argued that school-based […]

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In many schools, leaders and teachers say ‘All Means All.’ They have it printed on school paper, posted on websites. They say ‘All Means All’ because they want all kids to feel welcome, but so many of our minoritized/marginalized populations do not. Our LGBTQ students do not feel as though they are a part of […]

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Those who marvel at or question the vacations teachers enjoy are unlikely to have experienced the energy drain that the profession involves. There are inevitably other professions that demand emotional commitment with life-changing implications, but the nature of teaching is such that those in the trenches tend to expend everything they have from break to […]

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