A presentation to the amazing teachers of Sunshine School

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A presentation to the amazing teachers of
Sunshine School

• Jeff McNair, Ph.D.
• California Baptist University

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• Micah 68
• He has shown you what is good and what God wants
  you to do. But to do justly, and to love mercy
  and to walk humbly with your God.

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A model for interactions with pwd and their
families

• Doing justly

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A model for interactions with pwd and their
families

• Doing justly
• Loving mercy

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A model for interactions with pwd and their
families

• Doing justly
• Loving mercy
• Walking humbly

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Doing Justly

• Who are PWD?
• Devalued
• Misunderstood
• othered

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Doing Justly

• Only right to public school education since 1979
  so we
• are still in the stage of societal evolution of
  defining
• justice in the public school setting
• Is it full inclusion?
• Is it segregated schools or segregated programs
  or segregated classrooms?
• Is it parents getting anything they want?
• Is it teachers and schools dictating to parents
  what is best?
• Is it CAPA standards or functional skills or
  something else?
• Is it outcome based education?
• How is it evidencedHow would I know justice has
  been done relative to a particular student
• Would I know justice in the public school setting
  if I saw it?

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Doing Justly

• Break into groups for a minute and
• discuss the question,
• What is justice in the public schools?

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Doing Justly

• Doing justice is
• -not simple
• -fighting traditions, structures, attitudes,
  culture
• -not popularfight
• Martin Luther King remembrances 40 years since
  his death
• -not always respected
• -not sure of what is right

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Doing Justly

• Growing up, my daughter was an athletewe loved
  to watch
• A League of their own.
• In it there is my favorite scene

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Doing Justly
From A League of their Own

• Jimmy Dugan Taking a little day trip?
• Dottie Hinson No, Bob and I are driving home.
• To Oregon. Well, you were wrong.
• Jimmy Dugan Was I?
• Dottie Hinson Yeah. It is only a game, Jimmy.
  It's only a game, and, and, I don't need this. I
  have Bob I don't need this. At all.
• Jimmy Dugan I, I gave away five years at the end
  my career to drink. Five years. And now there
  isn't anything I wouldn't give to get back any
  one day of it.
• Dottie Hinson Well, we're different.
• Jimmy Dugan Sh--, Dottie, if you want to go back
  to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I'm
  in no position to tell anyone how to live. But
  sneaking out like this, quitting, you'll regret
  it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what
  gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you
  can't deny that.
• Dottie Hinson It just got too hard.
• Jimmy Dugan It's supposed to be hard! If it
  wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is
  what makes it great!

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Doing Justly

• It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard,
  everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes
  it great!

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Doing Justly

• You are the professional
• in the situation

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Loving Mercy

• If you have experienced, if you have
• received mercy, you will love mercy.
• It means that you do not get what you deserve.

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Loving Mercy

• Remember
• You are interacting with hurting people.
• Parents of very young children may be the most
  difficult.
• You interact with parents who are still
  integrating their understanding of disability.

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Loving Mercy

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• What happens to a family when a child with
  disability is born into it?
• Blaming - self or spouse
• Death of expectations - child will never be a
• Social isolation from friends, from family, from
  church, etc.
• Societal ostracism - real and imagined
• Social judgment questioning parents
• New mother unsure - dont know what to do?
• Flooded with new information opportunity to
  internalize and reflect on the child in the
  family
• Family breakup/or threat of break up one way to
  prevent is to find a common enemy

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Loving Mercy

• Break into groups for a minute
• and discuss the question,
• What evidence have you seen that your school
  loves mercy?

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Loving Mercy

• Welcome
• To
• Holland

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Loving Mercy

• Welcome
• To
• Holland

only parents may not think they are in Holland,
they may think they are in a form of Hell
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Loving Mercy

• What does disability mean to the life
• of a person with a disability (and their family)?
• Social Role Valorization Wounds (Wolfensberger,
  2000)
• Wound 1 Bodily impairment
• Wound 2 Functional impairment
• Wound 3 Relegation to low social status/deviancy
• Wound 4 Attitude of rejection
• Wound 5 Cast into one or more historic deviancy
  roles...social status
• causes devalued roles or vice versa
• Wound 6 Symbolic stigmatizing, "marking",
  "deviancy imaging",
• "branding"

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Loving Mercy

• Social Role Valorization Wounds
• (Wolfensberger, 2000/continued)
• Wound 7 Being multiply jeopardized/scapegoated
• Wound 8 Distanciation usually via segregation
  and also
• congregation
• Wound 9 Absence or loss of natural, freely given
  relationships
• substitution with artificial/boughten ones
• Wound 10 Loss of control, perhaps even autonomy
  freedom
• Wound 11 Discontinuity with the physical
  environment and objects
• "physical discontinuation"
• Wound 12 Social and relationship discontinuity
  even abandonment

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Loving Mercy

• Social Role Valorization Wounds
• (Wolfensberger, 2000/continued)
• Wound 13 Deindividualization "mortification"
  reducing humaness
• Wound 14 Involuntary material poverty,
  material/financial exploitation
• Wound 15 Impoverishment of experience especially
  that of the typical valued world
• Wound 16 Exclusion from knowledge and
  participation in higher-order value systems (eg.
  religion) that give meaning and direction to life
  and provide community
• Wound 17 Having one's life "wasted"...mindsets
  contributing to life wasting
• Wound 18 Being the object of brutalization,
  killing thoughts deathmaking
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Loving Mercy

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You are the professional in the situation
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Walking Humbly

• With knowledge comes responsibility
• To whom much is given,
• much is expected
• You are engaged in social change
• You are also on stage
• Some model a self impressed attitude
• Some model humility

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Walking Humbly

• How does one walk humbly?
• Be patient
• Be forgiving
• Be understanding of anothers position
• Learn to restate their position such they would
  agree with the way you have restated their
  position

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Walking Humbly

• How does one walk humbly?
• Be open to new ideas
• Be open to different perspectives
• Realities of life
• Possibility that you are wrong
• Be accountable through data collection
• No assumptions expected of anyone
• Effort to ensure learning is occurring
• Means for reporting
• Way of making myself consistent

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Walking Humbly

• How does one walk humbly?
• Understand who you are and who you
• represent to parents
• I am the DMV
• I am the door to their desired future
• They are fighting for something that they
  perceive that
• you have and that they need
• Overall, listen to what children and parents are
  telling you

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Walking Humbly

• Please get into your groups again.
• What evidence have you seen at your
• school that you all are humble in your
• interactions with children,
• parents and families?

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In conclusion

• It's supposed to be hard!
• If it wasn't hard,
• everyone would
• do it.
• The hard... is what makes it great!
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• and remember
• You are the professional
• in the situation

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Thank-you for your attention!