Dr. Shelly Moore uses a fantastic bowling analogy to describe her approach to inclusive education. She describes the classroom as a bowling lane. Where the students are the pins, the educator is the bowler, and teaching methods are the balls. Knocking over a pin symbolizes successfully teaching a student. Often educators use an approach similar to an amateur bowler, where we’re throwing the ball straight down the middle of the lane, as that’s where the pins are densest. Target the majority of the group to have the largest effect. The downside to this approach is that often the 2 hardest pins to knock down are left standing. (the ones in the back on each side 7-10 split) These pins often symbolize our learners with complex needs or exceptionalities. Then unfortunately (with only one other ball to use) educators have to make a choice on which student to target, and someone is left behind on the learning. To change this approach, Moore studied professional bowling and discovered all pro bowlers bowl the ball in a curved line. This aim is to target the most difficult pins first as teaching methods that target the students with exceptionalities will often work for the entire group. With this new strategy of targeting the hardest pins first, often Pro Bowlers and Educators are able to knock all the pins down. Very interesting perspective into inclusive education, and an approach I myself will use in the classroom.