The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Jennifer Gonzalez
253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2025 at 5:54 pm.
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Most special education efforts have focused on giving students with disabilities better access to the curriculum — but access alone isn’t enough. In this episode, I talk with Amy Tondreau and Laurie Rabinowitz, authors of the book Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, about disability-sustaining pedagogy, a framework that helps students embrace disability as a cultural identity. We explore practical ways teachers can make their classrooms more inclusive, empowering, and identity-affirming for disabled students.

Thanks to Alpaca and the School Me Podcast for sponsoring this episode.

To read a full transcript of this episode and find links to related resources, visit cultofpedagogy.com/disability-sustaining.