Navjeet
Banga

Oakland, California
Special education is the center.
History is where he goes to think.
Special Education   Writing   History

Special educator.
Writer.
Student of history.

Navjeet Banga is a special education teacher and case manager based in Oakland, California. He works with secondary students and families navigating school, disability, and systems that are often far more complicated than they need to be.

He teaches secondary special education in Oakland and writes essays on history, institutions, and the language of public life. Special education is the center of his professional life. History, argument, and good writing are what sharpen the rest of it.

Full biography ↗
Right Now
Teaching
Special education, secondary level, Oakland public schools.
Writing
Essays on the history of science, institutions, and the language of school.
Building
A plain-language family guide to IEP meetings.
Credentialing
Education Specialist Credential, Mild to Moderate Support Needs.
Open to
Collaboration, conversation, and selected writing on special education, language, and history.
Selected Writing All writing ↗
Special Education Published
The IEP Meeting as a Struggle Over Language

The real gate in a child's education is often not money or policy. It is language. On how jargon and procedural habit quietly decide who gets heard in the room.

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Why the Royal Society Pulled Ahead in the Scientific Revolution
Published
Why Bureaucracies Fail Families Even When Everyone Means Well
Forthcoming
What Schools Confuse for Care
In Progress
Outside the Classroom
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Trains consistently. Has competed in NAGA and Bay Area open grappling tournaments. Drawn to a discipline where leverage and timing beat force every time.

Tennis

Regular player in USTA Bay Area recreational leagues. Takes the game's geometry seriously. Precision under pressure, or nothing.

Distance Running

Oakland Running Festival half marathon. Nike San Francisco 10K. Oakland hills in between. No shortcut to the mileage.