Opening Doors to Safer and More Inclusive Schools https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Hacking School Discipline: A Short Book Review Blog Feed How Martial Arts Can Help Those Who Have Experienced Exclusion, Bullying, Seclusion & Restraint If Not Seclusion and Restraint, Then What? A Better Way Forward for Students and Educators Presentations and Speaking Engagements Awareness and Repair: We All Experience Dysregulation A Letter to the Board of Trustees of Lake Travis ISD: We Can Help When Helping Hurts: How Broken Systems Turn Compassion into Defense About What Happened Before That Moment? Colorado Department of Education Asked for Input on Restraint and Seclusion. Then It Chose the Status Quo A Call for Action: Pennsylvania Schools Need to Do More to Reduce the Use of Physical Restraint Volunteer Opportunities Book Studies Missouri’s Wake‑Up Call: After the DOJ’s Findings, It’s Time to Ban Seclusion in All Schools Make a Donation Time to Stop Locking Disabled Children in Boxes: We Need Lawmakers to Pass the Keeping All Students Safe Act Take Action Today: Help Protect Washington Students from Harmful Restraint and Isolation In the News Minnesota, It Is Time to End the Use of Seclusion, Not Increase It Washington’s Next Step Toward Safe and Dignified Schools: HB 1795 Maryland Shows You Can End Seclusion in Public Schools—But There Is More Work Ahead Homepage Our Team Providing Public Comment: Raising the Alarm on Restraint and Seclusion in Pennsylvania Schools Newsletter Rules Feedback to the Colorado State Board of Education from the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint Colorado Department of Education Wants Feedback on Restraint and Seclusion Rules: I Shared My Thoughts, and You Should Too Cultivating Inclusive Futures: Supporting Neurodivergent Learners Through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Claimed Capacity, Missing Voices: How Policy Gaps Fail Students—and Why Families and Communities Must Be at the Table An Invisible Storm: Why Extreme Weather Is Quietly Overloading Our Kids’ Nervous Systems Together, We Can End Restraint and Seclusion: Why Your Support Matters Now More Than Ever Share a Video to Support the Keeping All Students Safe Act When Curiosity Isn’t Enough: A Mother’s Story of Mats, Silence, and a Seven-Year-Old in Crisis Pain is Information: My Awakening Our Affiliates Counting the Costs: How School Trauma Impacts the Entire Family What can I do? If my child is being restrained and/or secluded? Sweet Support: Keystone RV Hosts Cookie Walk to Benefit AASR Join the Pennsylvania Project of the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint Call To Action Wisconsin: Take Action to Protect Vulnerable Students from Harmful Discipline Bills Punitive School Discipline and Its Public Health Implications: A Literature Review Urgent Call to Action: Support Bill H.245 to Stop the Shock in Massachusetts! A Call to Colorado Lawmakers: It’s Time to End the Reliance on Seclusion and Restraint in Our Schools A Letter to Ask Massachusetts Lawmakers to Ban the Use of Electric Skin Shock Keeping All Students Safe Act Reintroduced: It’s Time to End the Use of Seclusion in Schools As a Former School-Based SLP, I Knew About the Harm Caused by Seclusion and Restraint, Then It Happened to My Son What’s at Stake if Federal Special Education Protections Are Dismantled Autism Acceptance Month Is Not a Celebration—It’s a Reckoning Passing The Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA) Upholds a Child’s Natural Rights