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The Blind Advantage: How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone
Bill Henderson
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Description for The Blind Advantage: How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone
In a diverse school with many disabled students, Bill Henderson became a blind principal and a leader of equity. "The Blind Advantage "explores his journey, why his condition made him a stronger leader, and how he helped students and teachers succeed. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JNSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 456.
The Blind Advantage provides insight into the challenges, possibilities, and practicalities of including students with disabilities—and into the mind and heart of an inspired and determined leader.
“You should get out of education.”
That was the advice first-year teacher Bill Henderson received when he discovered he was gradually losing his vision. Instead, Henderson persevered and became principal of the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Boston, an ethnically and economically diverse school where about a third of the students have mild, moderate, or significant disabilities.
In The Blind Advantage, Henderson describes how the journey into blindness helped him ... Read more
The Blind Advantage provides insight into the challenges, possibilities, and practicalities of including students with disabilities—and into the mind and heart of an inspired and determined leader.
“You should get out of education.”
That was the advice first-year teacher Bill Henderson received when he discovered he was gradually losing his vision. Instead, Henderson persevered and became principal of the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Boston, an ethnically and economically diverse school where about a third of the students have mild, moderate, or significant disabilities.
In The Blind Advantage, Henderson describes how the journey into blindness helped him ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612501109
SKU
V9781612501109
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Ref
99-3
About Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson was an educator in the Boston Public Schools for 36 years. He was appointed principal of the Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School in 1989 with a mandate to develop an inclusive program, and he remained its leader for 20 years.
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