Tag: Pedagogical approaches for equitable classrooms

 
Expertise:
Learners with special and diverse needs, Pedagogical approaches for equitable classrooms, African American Education, Education justice, Racial equity in schools, Exceptional children/ K-12 mild-moderate disabilities

 
Bio:
Ruffin specializes in curriculum and instruction with a focus on Neurodiversity (exceptional children/ special education), reading education, and African American education. She is a veteran teacher educator and defender of human rights as an education justice advocate, consultant, and freedom fighter working to dismantle oppressive and structurally inequitable education systems. She is an accomplished professional with the distinction of being the 2020 UNC System Board of Governor’s excellence in teaching recipient for UNC Asheville, ‘17-‘18 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana, a ‘16-‘17 N.C West Education Policy Fellow, Past-President ‘s Fellow of the National Association of State Director’s of Special Education, and a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar in the U.S. Department of Education.