Poster Session: Disability Representation in the ELA Classroom: Increasing Empathy in Junior High Students

This poster session covers the design of a three-week seventh-grade ELA unit plan with a focus on disability inclusive literature. These lessons will be informed by real-world teachers' strategies and best practices from various case studies. The goal of this project is to synthesize Illinois Social-Emotional Learning Standards with other Common Core State Standards to improve students' perceptions of people with disabilities.