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As another school year wraps, one special education teacher in Cedar Hills is reflecting on a journey of half a century in empowering students to be their best selves. Kay Beck teaches life skills for grades 1-6 at Cedar Ridge Elementary School. Her classroom is filled with hard-working kids who she doesn't consider to have disabilities. Rather, she sees them as students with the right to an equitable education without bias. Beck began her career as an educator in 1973, when school administrators, she says, weren't confident in educating kids with special needs. "Basically, your ...