Crosscurrents 2025
Half a Century of Heart: Reaching, Teaching & Celebrating Every Mind
Online Workshops - Morning
Dr. Kimberly Maich
Inclusive Practices for High School Classrooms & Schools
Inclusive Practices for High School Classrooms & Schools
Following a brief backdrop of legislation and theory around inclusion of disabled students from a critical disability lens, this session will discuss inclusive practices for high school classrooms and schools. Participants will review ideas and strategies for successfully developing inclusive spaces and practices and applying them to their own context. Case studies and resources will be shared.
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Kimberly has studied, taught, and lived from coast-to-coast in Canada. She spent most of her early career as a resource teacher, supporting students with exceptionalities from K-12, as well as being a clinical coordinator with McMaster Children’s Hospital’s ASD School Support Program (Hamilton, ON) and a tenured Associate Professor at Brock University (Niagara, ON). She is a special education specialist, certified teacher, registered psychologist (provisional, master's level), professor and Newfoundland and Labrador’s first board certified behaviour analyst. Recently, she has taught, researched, and served undergraduates, graduate students, and professional educators at Brock University, Fanshawe College, Western University, Nipissing University, Redeemer University, as well as schools, community agencies, conferences and parent groups. She is pleased to be teaching, researching and providing service to Memorial’s Faculty of Education focused on the Bachelor of Special Education degree program. She is an experienced teacher, researcher, speaker, trainer, supervisor and resource developer with a strong collaborative style focused on knowledge mobilization. Her primary interests lie in disabilities and special education, with a focus on autism spectrum disorders in inclusive school environments. She also researches, presents and publishes in the areas of emotional/behavioural disorders, problem behaviour, applied behaviour analysis, assistive technology, inclusive school leadership and the early years.
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