Getting Your Voice Heard with Leah Moore [IEP 157]

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our guest for this episode is Leah Moore, a high school English teacher and a 2009 recipient of the prestigious, “Teacher of the Year” award, which is presented to ten New York City Teachers annually. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also teaches adaptive theater to mostly non-verbal students, which gave her an opportunity to learn a whole new way to approach a curriculum that she knows and loves. Leah is passionate about storytelling and getting your voice heard, whether that voice is in a traditional, general education classroom, a non-traditional theater. or a non-traditional, special-education theater class.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can’t wait to share this interview with you!</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Leah reveals how her daughter’s diagnosis of Cri Du Chat has shaped her own understanding of what education, access, and inclusion looks like for her.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Leah also has twin sons, one of which has special needs.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Advocacy and connecting to other parents have become very important to Leah.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">#explodethenarrative - Leah shares her thoughts on this hashtag and what inspired her to start writing her memoir.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The secrets to a joyful and successful adaptive theater classroom.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A very important lesson that Leah has learned in her adaptive theater classroom that is great outside the classroom, as well, is to just let things take the time they take.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"