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Standards for Inclusive Schools: 
An Anti-Ableist Approach to Building Cultures of Care

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The Nora Project’s Standards for Inclusive Schools: An Anti-Ableist Approach to Building Cultures of Care are intended to be used as a roadmap for building inclusive schools where all students are welcomed as their full and authentic selves, valued and respected as integral parts of the community, and empowered to advocate for themselves and others. 

The Standards for Inclusive Schools are organized under the domains of Diversity, Community, and Advocacy. For clarity within these domains, the Standards are written into Educator and Student roles, acknowledging these frequently exist in learning spaces, and also understanding the fluidity of them. 

At the top of each lesson in our curricular units is a note indicating what domain(s) are addressed in the lesson.

Live-Virtual Learning Sessions Coming Soon

Standards for Inclusive Schools: Diving into Diversity

This 60-minute Diversity virtual learning session is designed to dive into this particular Standard domain. Intended for up to 50 participants, educators will reflect on their own identities and the various identities that impact the ways students show up at school — and what it means for the strongest identities to maintain power and control of marginalized identities in community.

Standards for Inclusive Schools: Creating Community

This 60-minute Community virtual learning session is designed to explore this particular Standard domain. Intended for up to 50 participants, educators will discuss the ways they can more readily anticipate and support the needs of students, in order to build community where everyone can thrive. Through this, attendees will focus on ways to center relationships and foster cultures of respect, support, and inclusion.

Standards for Inclusive Schools: Advocacy in Action

This 60-minute Advocacy virtual learning session is designed to delve into this particular Standard domain. Intended for up to 50 participants, it gives educators the opportunity to understand and reflect on aspiring allyship, advocacy, and individual and collective action for positive social change while centering the experiences of marginalized groups most impacted by existing systems of education.