This week Tracey Humphrey came as a guest speaker to discuss and inform us about BCEDAccess. Tracey touched on many branches of the topic accessibility in the classroom. These topics included:

• What BCEDAccess is
• What BCEDAccess hears from parents
• Ways children and youth are excluded

What is BCEDAccess?

Before hearing from Tracey I had no idea BCEDAccess even existed. Of course I knew that somewhere out there in our education system there was a group dedicated to supporting children who need it. I just wasn’t aware that it was completely volunteer-run. These volunteers hold parent support groups and keep the conversation going about supporting complex learners.

What does BCEDAccess hear from parents?

This portion sparked interest for me because, I quickly recognized that these are comments and concerns that will come to me as a teacher. These comments and concerns sound like:

• Lack of communication from school to home
• Tech for students is outdated
• Denial of tech because of funding

There are many more included in this list, but I picked three that I believe would directly affect and involve me as a teacher.

Having Tracey come in shed light on a parent’s perspective on inclusive education. As teachers, having a parent/guardians perspective as a part of you thought process ensures parents are apart of there child education. In addition to this, for parents that do have complex learners, it informs them on how their child is doing in the classroom and that their child’s teacher cares.