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Welding for women, run by women, is a pipeline to union welding and manufacturing jobs that are high paying. These welding certifications can lead to leadership skills and future job opportunities to reinvent yourself.

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Chicago Women in Trades - Welding Information Session

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This bill is accessible for many different people to comprehend it. This bill is in partnership with Manufacturing Renaissance organization that wants to provide manufacturing jobs with wrap around services to help with obstacles to keeping a job.

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This is an organization that takes the pipeline from CTE classroom to get women into union trades apprenticeship. There is support in the form of academic, physical training skills, financial support, conflict resolution at the job place and emotional support to thrive in the trades.

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Career Training & Support :: Chicago Women in Trades

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Free job education, preparing women for high-paying jobs in construction, welding, plumbing, carpentry, painting, electricity, and other trades.

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Erica Sweeny is helping to reduce the barriers of BIPOC people having high paying manufacturing jobs. Mentors, wrap around services, daycare are key ways that people can keep these jobs. Once people are in leadership positions at thier manufacturing jobs, then they can change their communities for the better.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Reenvisioning the UDL Guidelines

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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student co-created space and curriculum. 

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Ideally, the CTE space would be created with students and community members. Lots of focus groups with written and oral feedback. There would be neurotypical and disabled people who have input in this space and the curriculum.

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A year would be spent finding the best instructor who has engineering or electrician who is not a white male. Possibly a persons drawing from the queer bipoc disabled community and understands the needs of Black and Latinx teens in the southwest side of Chicago. There will be a project of creating a mirror with different bipoc images of trades people so students can see themselves as trades people. The recruiting will have help from community manufacturing renaissance and Chicago Women and Trades.

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This is the focus of physical action, expression and executive function. There are would be hand tools and power tools to be modified for students needs. A budget to have a continuous range of tools and equipment, so that students can see themselves install solar panels.

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This medical model is not the focus of my CTE classroom. An individual is never a problem. We are here to fix the medical mindset.

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Overcoming all the obstacles of social model is the focus of my CTE classroom in urban education.

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This is so harmful and unethical, I can't even entertain the idea that a person has a disability due to religious sin.

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This terrible model is not the focus of my CTE classroom. A person with a disability is not a passive recipient to charity.

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"When we design for people with disabilities, we make things better fro everyone."

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When I read about the curb cut effect, my heart smiled about simple modification and accommodations for one disabled person, helped so many more people who do not have disability. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect

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I thought about saying next steps, but that is ablest. I would like to have an internship in a few different organizations to see how to implement CTE programs by mentors and 1st person accounts: Access Living, Shirley Ability Lab,Manufacturing Renaissance, Turner Construction, CTA

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These are simple ways to make school more inclusive for younger and older students. This is the implementation of theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgipBaxELBE this is an example of how a person with a disability is implementing UX (tech user experience with a product)

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What does it mean to "live inclusion" instead of simply "doing inclusion," a distinction that author Nicole Eredics makes in the quote above? Schools live out their inclusive philosophy when every aspect of the learning environment, including the building design, furniture, and materials, is thoughtfully developed to welcome every student and meet each child's individual learning needs. As Nicole Eredics further explains in her popular guidebook Inclusion in Action:

In today's post, we're highlighting 26 quick tips from Inclusion in Action that can help schools create more inclusive spaces. See how many of these your school is already doing, and which ones you might want to implement or recommend.

In the classroom...

Ensure that shelving is appropriate for student reach.

Designate an area for class meetings and discussions.

Create learning centers such as a book nook, science station, or writing retreat.

Use masking tape to outline walkways and student seating.

Supply materials for differentiated learning.

Provide different types of lighting in the room.

Group desks together to facilitate group interaction (when social distancing is not a factor).

Provide large tables for cooperative group work.

Post visual reminders, announcements, and lesson concepts.

Communicate regularly with families.

In the front office...

Post a welcome sign in different languages.

Provide newsletters and community notices (translated if necessary) and post online.

Post a school event board to notify staff and community of upcoming events.

Display student artwork and projects.

Post photos of school events.

Notify the community of school awards and achievements.

Have a morning greeting from the principal, a staff member, or a student.

Have the daily bulletin read by students and post it online.

Make birthday announcements.

In the library...

Provide various print, audio, and visual materials.

Ensure that technology is up to date and available.

Offer a reading club that is open to all students.

Have student assistants help with younger grades.

Create a "reading buddies" program.

Provide workspaces for group and/or individual projects.

Ensure that shelving and books are accessible.

Offer different types of seating and seating arrangements.

Create silent reading areas.

Provide different types of lighting.

On the playground...

Ensure that pathways to and around the playground are accessible.

Provide modified playground equipment.

Make sports equipment available to students.

Create an area for structured games.

Provide a group seating area.

Make use of a playground social coordinator who organizes games and activities for students.

Create quiet areas for students to read or chat.

Want more tips and guidance from Nicole Eredics? Read this Q&A with her on the Brookes blog, get her tips on implementing accommodations and modifications (and how to tell the difference), and watch her coffee chat on Making Curriculum Modifications in Minutes. And check out her book Inclusion in Action, the widely used guide that teachers across the country love!

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26 Things You Can Do to Create More Inclusive School Spaces - Brookes Blog

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What does it mean to "live inclusion" instead of simply "doing inclusion," a distinction that author Nicole Eredics makes in the quote above? Schools live out their inclusive philosophy when every aspect of the learning environment, including the building design, furniture, and materials, is thoughtfully developed to welcome every student and meet each child's individual learning needs.

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Thick Skin Podcast : women and construction

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Thick Skin Podcast : women and construction

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This is a person first podcast about how people are thriving and surviving in the the trades. Hopefully, people can listen to this podcast to make a more inclusive working atmosphere in CTE and construction.

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You'll hear raw, funny, gritty, honest, and inspiring stories from women, transgender and gender nonconforming people in the skilled trades. Find out what it takes to make it in this traditionally male-dominated field. We're also untangling the issue of the essential and skilled labor shortage in the construction and manufacturing trades and how this group of revolutionaries are poised to save the American economy in this time of crisis. (Adult content in most episodes.)

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Thick Skin: Revolutionaries in the Skilled Trades

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You'll hear raw, funny, gritty, honest, and inspiring stories from women, transgender and gender nonconforming people in the skilled trades. Find out what it takes to make it in this traditionally male-dominated field. We're also untangling the issue of the essential and skilled labor shortage in...