Hello fellow educators. Welcome to podcast number 60. Today we will continue our discussion about Special Education with our Director of Special Education in Heritage Christian Online School, John Davies. But before we do that I have a very special friend and student who will join us in this podcast, Matthew Baker. Matthew’s challenge is cerebral palsy. He has been with our campus school for six years now is beloved of the staff, students and families at Heritage. Matthew is also a faithful listener of this podcast and regularly sends me comments and emails, something I would love to receive from more of our listeners. Here is my conversation with Matthew:

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Matthew’s contribution is very relevant because today we will be talking about the ideas of “integration” and “inclusion.” Matthew is an integrated student in our campus school. Whereas most of our 100 special education students don’t “integrate” within the traditional school context, the exception being our 12 campus school students. John Davis has some very valuable insight into this today. Here is part two of my interview with John:

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Thank you so much John. I think his leadership in this very specialized form of education is one of the main reasons for our success with Special Ed in the Online School.  Please email us your comments and thoughts on today’s podcast. Also, if you would like us to mail you a free copy of my book, Discipling This Generation for a Digital World, simply send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and let us know what type of an educator you are, home schooler, classroom teacher, school administrator, or interested parent. Please let us know how you heard about the podcast and, of course, please include your mailing address. Thank you for listening and thank you for your commitment to discipleship-based Christian education.