The Unintended School
The Unintended School explores what happens when reasonable choices, good intentions, and everyday habits create consequences we never meant to build into the school system.
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Least restrictive environment was designed to protect students with disabilities from unnecessary exclusion, but over time, schools have reduced their capacity to provide for students with disabilities in the general education settings. Without building the staffing, expertise, time, coordination, and alternative supports needed, it is difficult to make inclusion work well.
When that capacity is missing, the gap does...
What happens when reasonable choices, good intentions, and everyday habits create consequences no one intended?
The Unintended School is a podcast about the systems we build in education without always realizing we’re building them. Each episode looks beneath the surface of familiar school problems, from teacher workload and burnout to leadership, culture, communication, and the habits that quietly shape how sc...
Compensatory Heroics: When Helping Keeps the System From Changing
Schools run on people who step in.
The teacher who stays late. The leader who fixes the problem before anyone notices. The person who makes sure the work gets done even when the system hasn't made room for it.
Sometimes that extra effort is exactly what's needed. But when heroic effort becomes the normal way a system functions, it can hide problems that ...
The Dangerous Side of Being the Person Who Knows Everything
Every school has someone everyone goes to.
They know the process. They remember the history. They can solve the problem faster than anyone else.
That competence can keep a school running, but it can also create a hidden vulnerability. If knowledge, decisions, or processes live primarily inside one person, the system may be much less stable than it appears.
In t...
Can a School Be Trauma-Informed If the System Isn’t?
Schools increasingly understand the importance of predictability, safety, regulation, relationships, voice, and choice.
But what happens when we ask people to practice those principles inside systems characterized by ambiguity, overload, shifting expectations, and chronic urgency?
This episode looks at the gap between trauma-informed practice and the operating ...
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