October 28, 2019: Five Moore Minutes! with Shelley Moore- Inclusive Education: It’s not more work, it’s different work!

Five Moore Minutes is back for season 2! Created by Shelley Moore, a current SSHRC funded Ph.D. candidate here at UBC. Five Moore Minutes has videos and podcasts dedicated to empowering schools and classrooms to support ALL Learners! It is an inclusive education channel with educators in mind. As teacher-students, we don’t always have a lot of time, so the video series offers digital resources, research, professional development activities and inspiration in 5-minute chunks!


Five Moore Minutes evolved out of a video competition where Shelley was one of five students nationwide to win the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers challenge in 2016. Each year the competition asks students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. Shelley made the video on research in inclusive education, it was about bowling! After the video, Shelley got so many requests for more that with the help of the Ministry of Education of British Columbia, Five Moore Minutes was launched.

Inclusion describes the principle that all students, through meaningful participation, are entitled to equitable access to learning, achievement and the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of their educational journey. Presuming competence in our students is the gateway for inclusive education. All people have different abilities and disabilities, resulting in different styles of learning. Our job as teachers is to adapt to each of their styles through a competency-based learning education. We should enhance the capabilities of their mind and cherish their diversity so our students become life-long learners that adapt to a changing world. To understand more about presuming competence watch Shelley’s TED Talk – Under the Table below. It is more than five minutes…

We have to stop thinking about what students can’t do and, even better, encourage them to overcome obstacles by nourishing their wonder, curiosity, and imagination. Shelley reminds us that as educators our assumptions affect students learning and it shouldn’t. Coming to understand that all students are capable of learning and contributing to their community is key to any form of education. “We have to believe that people are competent, we have to trust that all people can learn. If we don’t presume competence it is us who is disabled”. Shelley Moore, 2016