{"id":123771,"date":"2021-12-17T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=123771"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:24:21","slug":"steve-way-speaks-to-dr-rich-wolfsons-class-on-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2021\/12\/17\/steve-way-speaks-to-dr-rich-wolfsons-class-on-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Way Speaks to Dr. Rich Wolfson&#8217;s Class on Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Way, a graduate of our teacher education program, the co-star of <em>Ramy<\/em> on Hulu, and a tireless disability advocate, recently visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~wolfsonr\">Dr. Rich Wolfson\u2019s<\/a> Public Purposes of Education class. Montclair State University President Jonathan Koppell also visited the class to hear Way&#8217;s commentary on disabilities and how they affect our students and our abilities to teach them. Born with Muscular Dystrophy, Steve shared his experiences as both a student in the Rutherford Public Schools and as an undergraduate of Montclair State University. He also discussed his stints as a substitute teacher and as a writer and actor, most notably in the Hulu show <em>Ramy<\/em> with co-star Ramy Youssef. Steve\u2019s visit to the class reinforced major themes of the course, which is a prerequisite for those applying to the teacher education program, of democracy, inclusion, and trusting students as experts in their own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Way, a graduate of our teacher education program, the co-star of Ramy on Hulu, and a tireless disability advocate, recently visited Dr. Rich Wolfson\u2019s Public Purposes of Education class. Montclair State University President Jonathan Koppell also visited the class to hear Way&#8217;s commentary on disabilities and how they affect our students and our abilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}