Inclusive Learning Environments

Snapshots of diverse educational settings showing students and teachers engaging in various activities, promoting inclusivity and collaboration.

Disabled students on stairs at university

Anthony Culletto lead firefighter shows kindergarten children the fire truck during the fire prevention week celebration. Camp Darby, Italy, Oct. 11, 2022.

student and school bus driver greeting each other

Students gathered around instructor in a lab

Devin Stevenson-Guitierrez, Project SEARCH intern, listens to a speech from the program director, May 24, 2022, on Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The 49th Force Support Squadron was the first military organization to participate in Project SEARCH in the state and assisted the program by providing jobs for the programs five interns.

Community members enjoy a variety of activities inside the Fort Drum Family Resource Center on Dec. 2, during the Theres Snow Place Like Home event. Hosted by the Relocation Readiness Program, attendees enjoyed making holiday crafts, learned simple snack ideas and spent time getting to know other Fort Drum families. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)

Instructor helping girl to wear protective eyewear at center

Autistic child

Memphis, Tenn. (June 16, 2022) Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Emily Courtois, a native of Covington, Georgia, assigned to the Navys eSports team shows a camper how to play a virtual reality game at The Museum of Science & History in Memphis during Navy Week Memphis. Memphis Navy Week is one of 14 Navy Weeks in 2022, which brings a variety of assets, equipment, and personnel to a single city for a weeklong series of engagements designed to bring America's Navy closer to the people it protects. Each year, the program reaches more than 140 million people -- about half the U.S. population.

Girl learning to use wheelchair

Teacher with studants, one disabled

Teacher and student with disabilities shaking hands

student in wheelchair talking with classmate and professor in library

Language training for refugees in a German camp: A female German volunteer is teaching young African (Gambia) and Arabic (Algeria and Tunesia) men the German language in a refugee camp quickly errected using accomodation containers. Over 1 million refugees arrived in Germany in 2015 alone, integration of these people requires enormous efforts by the government but also by thousands of volunteers providing basic training and services for the refugees.

A student and her sister stand by her art project, for which she received an award, at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Sept. 20, 2022. The art show is composed of various projects from students of MCAS Iwakuni schools and was held to recognize their hard work and talent.

Airmen assigned to the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing participate in the Amazing Race competition at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, April 22, 2022. The Hunter Olympics raised awareness during the month of April for child abuse prevention, alcohol and substance abuse prevention, as well as sexual assault prevention.

St. Mary's Maryland USA A janitor in a hallway handles large garbage cans.at St. Mary's College.

Kat Boynton, a Guard team panel member attending the National Guard Youth Symposium in Louisville, Ky July 24, makes signs for the various regions that will be attending this year. The Youth Symposium is designed to help youths in military families to better adapt, adjust and cope with the unique issues that growing up in a military family entails.

France, Brittany, Rennes on 2022-02-04. The University of Rennes 2 s Free Solidarity Grocery recovers unsold food from supermarkets and uneaten meals from school canteens and distributes them free of charge to students. In this way, they fight both against waste and against student poverty. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Rennes le 2022-02-04. L Epicerie Gratuite Solidaire de l Universite Rennes 2 recupere les invendus des supermarches et les repas non consommees des cantines des ecoles pour les distribue gratuitement aux etudiants. Ainsi, ils luttent a la fois contre le gaspillage et contre la precarite etudiante. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Reportage on Sylvain, 11 years old, suffering from autism. He was diagnosed when he was 7. Sylvain goes to a special needs school which caters to children with various mental handicaps.

Washington, D. C. , June 27, 2012 Flat Stella prepared to get her picture taken for her FEMA identification badge. FEMA Photo.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Eighteen year old girl voting for the first time on a touch screen machine.

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A U.S. Naval Academy candidate writes their name on a laundry bag during their in-processing at Alumni Hall in Annapolis, Maryland, June 29, 2022. U.S. Naval Academy in-processing began today for midshipman candidates for the Class of 2026 who came directly from the fleet, attended the U.S. Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS), or are international students. The NAPS and prior-enlisted midshipmen candidates provide midshipmen candidates mentorship and guidance to their classmates during Plebe Summer, the demanding six-week indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life.

Children using smart phone at science center

A child decorates his flower pot with stickers during an Earth Day celebration at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 22, 2022. Earth Day has been celebrated every year since 1970 and was created to help spread continual awareness to the health and preservation of the planet.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Downey, a hospital corpsman with 11th Dental Company Detachment, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, interacts with children during the Owl Park Inclusive Day community relations event at the Atagoyama Fukuro Park, also known as the Atago Owl Park, in Iwakuni, Japan, May 15, 2022. The event provided volunteers an opportunity to connect with the local community and a safe environment for children with disabilities to enjoy a day at the park.

jsc2017e114908 (09-06-17) --- During water survival training in 2017 at NASA Johnson Space Centers Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, NASA astronaut candidate Kayla Barron is fitted for training gear by instructors.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Students present their investigation project to their peers, scientists, engineers and education specialists during the NASA Explorer Schools Symposium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About 60 fourth- through 12-grade students from across the nation are at the center May 4-7 participating in tours of processing and launch facilities and the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, as well as several educational activities and a career panel question-and-answer session. About 30 teachers will receive professional development opportunities during the symposium.The participants were competitively selected after they completed an original investigation focused on existing NASA missions or research interests.

ISU Line of Questions (designed by Planners Collaborative, Inc./depicts a circuit board.) a visual for summer students to find their way around NASA Research Park and to the different venues

The young male student in wheelchair at home. Young male student in wheelchair at home

Children at Science Center

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response personnel speaks with Brenda Lowrey with the Hawaii Department of Education about the West Maui Temporary School classrooms, Jan. 4, 2024 in Lahaina, Hawaii.In support of the State of Hawaii and the state Department of Education, USACE is providing technical assistance, engineering expertise and construction management for the construction of the temporary campus for students who were displaced by the wildfires that damaged and rendered the school unusable.

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A Princeton University student watches young Afghan guests making paper airplanes during a visit at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Jan. 28, 2022. The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 11,000 Afghan evacuees at Liberty Village, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matthew B. Fredericks)

Children doing experiments at Science Center

110812-N-GS507-971PENSACOLA, Fla. (Aug. 12, 2011) Cryptologic Technician (Networks) Seaman Megan Harrick, from Noblesville, Ind., paints a walking path in a hallway at O.J. Semmes Elementary School during a command-sponsored volunteer day. Thirty-two staff and students from the Center for Information Dominance Corry Station volunteered to help ready the school for the start of the new school year.

ISU Line of Questions (designed by Planners Collaborative, Inc./depicts a circuit board.) a visual for summer students to find their way around NASA Research Park and to the different venues

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Disability sports training class

Fourth through sixth graders from the Migrant Summer School Program in Caldwell spent a day on Gowen Field, July 15, as part of STARBASE-Idahos forensic summer camp, where they learned about arson investigation, facial reconstruction and the basics of gathering accounts from eyewitness. They also spent some time touring the Idaho National Guards 204th Regional Training Institute and climbing on its tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. More than 170 Idaho students from five different schools and agencies participated in STARBASE-Idaho summer camps this summer as the program expanded from a single camp for children of Idaho National Guardsmen to eight camps with three specially designed themes.

221201-N-MR862-075 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (01 Dec. 2022) Strategic Communications Wing (SCW) 1 Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) team member Aviation Maintenance Administrationman Petty Officer 1st Class Crystal Moody presents a sailor with their gift the SCW-1 Holiday gift exchange Dec. 01 2022. SCW-1 is a tenant command at Tinker Air Force base, ensuring National Security through the deterrence of adversarial nuclear ambitions.

Laura Orr, Director of Education and Darcy Sink, Volunteer Coordinator at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provide an orientation for area Chief Petty Officers in preparation for the museums CPO Heritage Days training event scheduled for September 19-21, 2022. The museums CPO training event is the largest and longest running event of its kind in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area for newly selected Chief Petty Officers and is held aboard the Battleship Wisconsin and the Nauticus campus in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

Teacher taking temperature her students

Teacher helping with wrist guards for girl with Tuberous Sclerosis at school

Cheerful teenagers and man sitting together in science center

Tech. Sgt. Jacob Hartner, Vicini Americani English Teaching Program volunteer, assists an Italian child with an arts and crafts project at the at the Giovani in Movimento summer camp in Aviano, Italy, Aug. 31, 2022. During the summer camps, the volunteers crafted, played sports, participated in nature walks with the children during the summer camps.

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Disabled woman drawing at art classes

220816-N-HG389-0031 SINGAPORE (Aug. 16, 2022) Ombudsman-at-Large Junifer Thomas, left, takes a tour given by Valerio Rossi, admissions manager, in a local school during a visit to Singapore, Aug. 16. The Ombudsman-at-Large advises the Chief of Naval Operations and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy on matters affecting Sailors and their families.

Derby, Kansas' Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps members volunteer at the Kid Zone at Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow, Sept. 25, 2022, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Team McConnell used the airshow as a way to give back to the surrounding communities for all the support they give to the base and it's Airmen.

Autistic adolescent

HUNCH (High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware) students came together at the U.Sl Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) in a competition to create recipes for food to feed astronauts in space. Six teams from North Alabama and George participated. The winner will compete with students from competitions at other NASA centers later at the Johnson Space Flight Center.

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Keith Silvin (right) instructs a young attendee how to use a virtual reality system controller at the Titans of Flight Air Expo, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, April 10, 2022. The airshow pays tribute to air power from the earliest U.S. military inventory to modern day aircraft.

France, Toulouse on 2023-09-21. As part of the roll-out of the vocational lycée reform, Carole GRANDJEAN, the French Minister for Vocational Education, will be in Toulouse on Thursday 21 September to talk to students, apprentices and teachers from the aeronautics sector. The Minister will be speaking to students and teachers at the "Airbus" high school. The only one of its kind in France, this vocational school, which works in partnership with the Lycée Saint Exupéry, trains 500 students each year, from CAP to BTS, in aeronautical professions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Toulouse le 2023-09-21. Dans le cadre du déploiement de la réforme du lycée professionnel, Carole GRANDJEAN, ministre de l'Enseignement professionnel, sera à Toulouse le jeudi 21 septembre pour échanger avec des lycéens, des apprentis et des enseignants du secteur aéronautique. La ministre interviendra auprès des élèves et des enseignants du lycée "Airbus". Unique en France, ce lycée professionnel, qui trava

Brainstorming meeting of a man with disability and a colleague in the university

FORT BENNING, Ga.--Sgt. George Norton, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, goes over some notes with Sam Portis, 13, of Victoria, Texas, during the AMU's Junior Rifleman's Camp June 23. Portis and 34 other junior shooters participated in the five-day camp, which aimed to take the youngsters from a basic level of marksmanship to a more advanced level.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Pink Team participates in the regional FIRST robotics competition at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The team is made up of students from Rockledge, Cocoa Beach and Viera high schools along the Space Coast of Florida. NASAs Kennedy Space Center is a sponsor of the team. The Pink Team finished sixth in the competition called "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology," or FIRST, among about 60 high school teams hoping to advance to the national robotics championship. The team also took home the Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors.FIRST, founded in 1989, is a non-profit organization that designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge and life skills while motivating young people to pursue academic opportunities. The robotics competition challenges teams of high school students and their mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard kit of parts and a common set

Paul Albertson (left), FEMA Special Events Coordinator, speaks with flood survivor Larry Parker inside of the East Baton Rouge Parish Bookmobile parked outside of the American Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge in response to the 2016 severe flooding in Louisiana.. Louisiana Severe Storms and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Tuba City Boarding School on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona--largest school in the Bureau of Indian Education system. Joining Secretary Kempthorne for the tour of new buildings and classrooms, and for discussions with students, teachers, and parents, were education officials including Bureau of Indian Education Director Kevin Skenandore, Indian Affairs Office of Facilities, Environmental and Cultural Resources Director Jack Rever, Tuba City Boarding School Principal Don Coffland, and Tuba City School Governing Board President Frieda Maloney.

Danielle Robinson uses a thermometer to check the temperature of chickens roasting in the oven at Nottingham Elementary School in Arlington, VA, on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

Close-up of a little girl playing with a figurine of a person on a wheelchair

Instructor lying on table and explaining participants at indoor skydiving center

Group Of Young Adults Playing A Game Of Cards, With Snacks

Teenager on wheelchair playing chess with instructor

Happy participants holding certificates at indoor skydiving center

Male coach talking to class in gym.

Aids education in school, Harar, Ethiopia, Africa

NASAs Crew-4 Q&A With Students at Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, left, Kjell Lindgren, center, and Robert Hines, right, answer questions from students during an event at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.

111127-N-ZZ999-018NORFOLK (Nov. 27, 2011) Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman Sarah R. Pixley shows a Navy firefighter's thermal imager, the ISG/Infrasys K-90 Talisman, to a child during the birthday celebration for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). Enterprise celebrated the 50th anniversary of her commissioning Nov. 25, and is preparing for her 22nd and final deployment.

HUNCH (High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware) students came together at the U.Sl Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) in a competition to create recipes for food to feed astronauts in space. Six teams from North Alabama and George participated. The winner will compete with students from competitions at other NASA centers later at the Johnson Space Flight Center.

France, Brittany, Rennes on 2022-02-04. The University of Rennes 2 s Free Solidarity Grocery recovers unsold food from supermarkets and uneaten meals from school canteens and distributes them free of charge to students. In this way, they fight both against waste and against student poverty. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Rennes le 2022-02-04. L Epicerie Gratuite Solidaire de l Universite Rennes 2 recupere les invendus des supermarches et les repas non consommees des cantines des ecoles pour les distribue gratuitement aux etudiants. Ainsi, ils luttent a la fois contre le gaspillage et contre la precarite etudiante. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

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Air Force services specialist students work on basic food preparation during an April 27 training session in Fort Lees McLaughlin Hall. The Services Specialist Course also includes blocks of instruction on fitness and readiness. It graduates roughly 1,300 students yearly.

On April 20, 2022, advanced placement anatomy and physiology students from Lejeune High School attended a STEM fair hosted by Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune. The event introduced different areas of study within the medical field that use science, technology, engineering and math. Hands-on demonstrations were available for the students. For several months, NMCCL staff members have been visiting area schools to help revive its STEM outreach program which had been paused due to the pandemic. This was the first STEM Fair NMCCL has hosted since the onset.

On April 20, 2022, advanced placement anatomy and physiology students from Lejeune High School attended a STEM fair hosted by Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune. The event introduced different areas of study within the medical field that use science, technology, engineering and math. Hands-on demonstrations were available for the students. For several months, NMCCL staff members have been visiting area schools to help revive its STEM outreach program which had been paused due to the pandemic. This was the first STEM Fair NMCCL has hosted since the onset.

France, Toulouse on 2023-09-21. As part of the roll-out of the vocational lycée reform, Carole GRANDJEAN, the French Minister for Vocational Education, will be in Toulouse on Thursday 21 September to talk to students, apprentices and teachers from the aeronautics sector. The Minister will be speaking to students and teachers at the "Airbus" high school. The only one of its kind in France, this vocational school, which works in partnership with the Lycée Saint Exupéry, trains 500 students each year, from CAP to BTS, in aeronautical professions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Toulouse le 2023-09-21. Dans le cadre du déploiement de la réforme du lycée professionnel, Carole GRANDJEAN, ministre de l'Enseignement professionnel, sera à Toulouse le jeudi 21 septembre pour échanger avec des lycéens, des apprentis et des enseignants du secteur aéronautique. La ministre interviendra auprès des élèves et des enseignants du lycée "Airbus". Unique en France, ce lycée professionnel, qui trava

Instructor and two students in HVAC and process control classroom one student in wheelchair

Teenager with cerebral palsy playing chess with instructor

5th year students during a sewing workshop. The students learn the gestures of suturing on false epidermis or bananas.

Rear view of a mid adult woman in wheelchair, teaching a boy to play the piano

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Stephen E. Liszewski, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations Pacific, speaks with students during the 2022 Youth Exchange Program at Camp Lester Middle School on Camp Lester, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 2, 2022. The program was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Department of Defense Education Activity which allowed participants from both Japan and the U.S. to practice healthy communication skills and participate in activities to learn more about each others cultures. Liszewski reviewed student projects, presented student awards, and provided remarks at the closing ceremony.

Students and faculty from the Onslow County Schools Career and Technical Education Summer Accelerator Program visited NMCCL several times throughout the month of June. NMCCLs STEM Coordinator Lieutenant Adam Rondina arranged for the students to tour different areas of the Medical Center to help align program initiatives with their visit. The CTE program focuses on introduction of trades to rising eighth-grade students in fields for construction, health sciences, food, hospitality and agriculture. Students received hands-on demonstrations and discussions with staff from our laboratory, trauma and physical therapy departments.

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Visual Information Specialists Marisa Berkey and Cole Fraser print a poster.

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Creative, group and thumbs up with art portrait for artistic achievement, positive feedback and yes for painting classes. Diversity, people and together with hand gesture, well done and creativity.

University professor with Muscular Dystrophy talking with his students in a classroom

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Instructor assisting girl on wheelchair at science center

Map, lifeguard teamwork and sea marine investigation with drawing and ruler on table. Sailing strategy, captain and boat worker with navigation paperwork with course planning and distance calculation

South Carolina, Columbia, Edventure Children's Museum, 40 foot tall interactive sculpture of massive child, Eddie

Col. Jess Curry, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hawaii Wildfires Recovery Field Office commander, provides a mission update on the temporary school to Deanna Criswell, FEMA Administrator; Bob Fenton, FEMA Chief Federal Response Coordinator and other federal and state partners in Lahaina, Hawaii, Feb. 9, 2024. USACE is constructing the school as a temporary replacement for the King Kamehameha III Elementary School, which was damaged by the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfires that displaced more than 600 students. USACE anticipates that the temporary school will be handed over to the Hawai'i State Department of Education for furnishing and installation of telecommunication equipment by the end of February 2024. (USACE

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Young female trainees learning from male instructor at workshop

MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn.- Elliott Crabtree, age 7, was chosen to be "Pilot for a Day" here. Crabtree got to tour different facilities around the base and meet Airmen from the 134th ARW. (Air National Guard photo by: Staff Sgt. Melissa Dearstone)

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