One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion

About Shelley Moore

Originally from Edmonton Alberta and now based in Vancouver British Columbia Shelley Moore (she/her/hers) is a highly sought-after teacher researcher speaker and storyteller and has worked with school districts and community organizations throughout both Canada and the United States. Shelleys presentations are constructed based on contexts of schools and communities and integrate theory and effective practices of inclusion special education curriculum and teacher professional development. Her first book entitled One Without the Other was released in July 2016 to follow up her TEDx talk. Shelley completed an undergraduate degree in Special Education at the University of Alberta her masters at Simon Fraser University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the interactions of inclusive education curriculum and teacher professional development. @tweetsomemoore Leyton Schnellert PhD (he/his/him) is an associate professor in UBCs Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Eleanor Rix Professor in Rural Teacher Education. He focuses on how teachers and teaching and learners and learning can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education. Dr. Schnellert is the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBCs Institute for Community Engaged Research inclusive education research lead in the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship and co-chair of BCs Rural Education Advisory. His community-based collaborative work contributes a counter argument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models instead drawing from communities funds of knowledge to build participatory place-conscious and culturally responsive practices. Leyton works and learns on the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the Sinixt who were declared extinct by Canadas government in 1956 and stands in solidarity with the Sinixt in their reclamation efforts. Leyton has been a middle and secondary years classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher for grades K12. His books films and research articles are widely referenced locally nationally and globally.