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About Me

I am currently serving as a Special Education Inclusion Consultant for the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC) in Kentucky. I consider myself primarily a special education teacher, which I did in the first 12 years of my teaching career in Texas and Tennessee before coming to Kentucky. After that, I served as an instructional coach for three years; this position opened my eyes to what happens outside of my classroom: from the building and district perspectives. While I was completing my last 7 years in the school system, I was also working on my doctorate in special education at Walden University. My study was about the Circumstances and Experiences of Regular and Special Education Teachers in Inclusion, which is available for free download; click here for the Summary of Findings. I concluded in this study that there has to be some systemic change to support educators in providing quality inclusive services for all students. That is why I could not be happier to take on the role of special education consulting at the regional level. I get to be a part of a wonderful team that makes "my recommendations" in the study happen: that is to provide support and empower educators in the classroom, school, and district levels.On a personal note, I have my own wonderful young family of four. My husband and I have 2 beautiful blessings: a girl and a boy. I can only hope that I instill the value of education in them; my husband appreciates this a lot. I have two younger sisters and we came from a very hard-working middle-class family. I am a third-generation educator in the family (my mom & grandmother were teachers); education is highly valued in my family and my home country - the Philippines. This lifetime is not enough to learn all that we need to learn, so let's keep learning while we can. And, let's ask ourselves, "Is what I am doing helping make this world a better place?" Find me on Twitter: @graceXabsher and reach me through email grace.absher@grrec.org

For questions or comments, you can reach me at grace.absher@grrec.org or call (270)563-2113 (2038).

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