The Blind Advantage - How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone (Hardcover)

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 develop key qualities-determination, vision, sensitivity, organization, collaboration, and humor-that made him a more effective principal. At the same time, he shows how the inclusionary policies and practices at the O'Hearn School (now renamed the William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School) elicited and developed these qualities in others. An audio version of this book is available for purchase. This audio version was created in collaboration with the Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library.

General

Imprint:	Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2011
Authors:	William Henderson
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-61250-110-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of those with special educational needs > Teaching of physically disabled persons
LSN:	1-61250-110-9
Barcode:	9781612501109

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