Saili Kulkarni Ph.D.
@drkoolkarni.bsky.social
Teacher Educator, Disability, Race and Early Ed Discipline, DisCrit Scholar (Disability Studies Critical Race)
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It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town.
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September 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Check out my sister’s article! @shefalikulkarni.bsky.social
It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
My book is available for pre-order on independent book sites. www.thriftbooks.com/w/addressing...
Addressing Racism and Ableism in the... book by Saili S. Kulkarni
Buy a cheap copy of Addressing Racism and Ableism in the... book by Saili S. Kulkarni. Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special e...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
My book is available for pre-order on independent book sites. www.thriftbooks.com/w/addressing...
My new book is out this October
First to provide narratives of special education teachers of color!
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First to provide narratives of special education teachers of color!
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Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education: Case Studies of Special Education Teachers of Color
Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special education teachers of color, an overlooked and underserved population in public educatio...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My new book is out this October
First to provide narratives of special education teachers of color!
www.routledge.com/Addressing-R...
First to provide narratives of special education teachers of color!
www.routledge.com/Addressing-R...
As I figure out what I want this platform to be for me, I’ve decided to try to promote scholarship on equity and disability written by scholars of color. First up, this article on reimagining IEP interpretations by @drarubybatz.bsky.social et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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February 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As I figure out what I want this platform to be for me, I’ve decided to try to promote scholarship on equity and disability written by scholars of color. First up, this article on reimagining IEP interpretations by @drarubybatz.bsky.social et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In 2015, as a recent PhD grad and first year faculty @csudh.bsky.social I applied to a program that provided new faculty with a research assistant.
January 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In 2015, as a recent PhD grad and first year faculty @csudh.bsky.social I applied to a program that provided new faculty with a research assistant.
Saw a diversity statement for a job today where a white woman listed her Asian husband and mixed race child. SMH.
a woman is talking about having black friends .
ALT: a woman is talking about having black friends .
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January 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Saw a diversity statement for a job today where a white woman listed her Asian husband and mixed race child. SMH.
Here in the Bay Area, I’ve encountered far too many South Asian families who believe that the “best” related services will somehow make their kid less disabled. Instead of sending your kids to the best segregated, special ed program, channel your resources into inclusion advocacy. The end.
December 13, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Here in the Bay Area, I’ve encountered far too many South Asian families who believe that the “best” related services will somehow make their kid less disabled. Instead of sending your kids to the best segregated, special ed program, channel your resources into inclusion advocacy. The end.
In special education, ABA
#EduSky what are some of the biggest scams in education? Beyond admin reminding you “it’s for the kids” before they put yet another thing on your plate?
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a woman is sitting in front of a laptop with the words it 's a scam on the screen
ALT: a woman is sitting in front of a laptop with the words it 's a scam on the screen
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December 13, 2024 at 8:57 PM
In special education, ABA
Reposted by Saili Kulkarni Ph.D.
Anything or anyone using terms like grit or resilience to describe our students & teachers. Stop placing responsibility on people to claw themselves out of poorly managed, harmful systems and then congratulating them with empty words because they survived.
December 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Anything or anyone using terms like grit or resilience to describe our students & teachers. Stop placing responsibility on people to claw themselves out of poorly managed, harmful systems and then congratulating them with empty words because they survived.
Things my Desi family and other relatives/Desi folks think about my profession as a special education professor, a thread:
1. What’s “special” about this education?
1. What’s “special” about this education?
November 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Things my Desi family and other relatives/Desi folks think about my profession as a special education professor, a thread:
1. What’s “special” about this education?
1. What’s “special” about this education?
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Low standardized test scores here, a D in my first bio class freshman year and a 2.66 undergrad GPA right here.
we need professors that are not naturals at academic writing
we need professors who didn’t have perfect grades
we need professors that went to community college
we need professors that went to non-selective institutions
we need professors that have always struggled to belong
we need professors who didn’t have perfect grades
we need professors that went to community college
we need professors that went to non-selective institutions
we need professors that have always struggled to belong
November 25, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Low standardized test scores here, a D in my first bio class freshman year and a 2.66 undergrad GPA right here.
This workshop/fellowship looks amazing, encouraging emerging disabled scholar-activists to apply!
longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/news/call-ap...
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Call for Applications: Emerge Summer 2025 Hybrid Disability Studies Workshop for Disabled Activists, Artists, Cultural Producers, Filmmakers, and Academics | Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability
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November 20, 2024 at 10:37 PM
This workshop/fellowship looks amazing, encouraging emerging disabled scholar-activists to apply!
longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/news/call-ap...
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Thanks for adding me folx! Hoping I can think of something more coherent to post soon but currently busy transitioning back to work after maternity leave. If you followed me based on a scholar starter pack, here is a link to my articles and chapters works.bepress.com/saili-kulkar...
a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer and says `` mommy at work '' .
ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer and says `` mommy at work '' .
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November 20, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Thanks for adding me folx! Hoping I can think of something more coherent to post soon but currently busy transitioning back to work after maternity leave. If you followed me based on a scholar starter pack, here is a link to my articles and chapters works.bepress.com/saili-kulkar...
Reposted by Saili Kulkarni Ph.D.
What’s something that cannot be understood without first hand experience?
I’ll offer up: parenthood.
I’ll offer up: parenthood.
November 19, 2024 at 1:53 AM
What’s something that cannot be understood without first hand experience?
I’ll offer up: parenthood.
I’ll offer up: parenthood.
Great seeing @levarburton.bsky.social speak at the #NAEYC recently!
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Great seeing @levarburton.bsky.social speak at the #NAEYC recently!
It felt kinda ick posting some recent work that came out on X. I had otherwise divested a long time ago but missed opportunities to connect with others around scholarship and other thoughts. Grateful for this new space and hoping it’ll remain 🤞🏾
November 17, 2024 at 10:09 PM
It felt kinda ick posting some recent work that came out on X. I had otherwise divested a long time ago but missed opportunities to connect with others around scholarship and other thoughts. Grateful for this new space and hoping it’ll remain 🤞🏾
1) discipline disparities for young children of color with disabilities
2) maternal ableism (my last op-ed touched on these thoughts msmagazine.com/2024/10/16/a... )
2) maternal ableism (my last op-ed touched on these thoughts msmagazine.com/2024/10/16/a... )
November 17, 2024 at 2:52 PM
1) discipline disparities for young children of color with disabilities
2) maternal ableism (my last op-ed touched on these thoughts msmagazine.com/2024/10/16/a... )
2) maternal ableism (my last op-ed touched on these thoughts msmagazine.com/2024/10/16/a... )