Equity is defined as fairness or justice in the way people are treated. It is a term that is used often within public education and conversations about how different populations are treated within our systems. Open enrollment in electives or offering technology to all students
"Yes we can." - Barack Obama, Oscar Zia, and Bob the Builder "Si se puede." - Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta Work yourself out of your job! Pursue redundancy! That should be your objective as an educational equity leader. That’s right. If you want to close educational gaps,
Many are using social networking to get word out that the US Departments of Education and Justice released guidance and tools about the legal obligations of teaching English learners. Last month, the US Department of Education released an English Learner Toolkit to help state and local education agencies help English
This is part III of a four-part blog series on bias and teacher expectations. Click these links to access post I and post II. The language we use to talk about students matters. It reflects and shapes our perceptions, and most importantly, our expectations for student success. Sometimes the words we use
This is the second blog in a four-blog series on bias and teacher expectations. Access the first blog here. No matter how good our intentions to be free of prejudice, we all have implicit biases that can have a serious impact on our work in schools. Implicit
This post was originally published on Tonya Ward Singer's blog. In a new study, Gershenson, Hold, & Papageorge (2015) reveal that non-black teachers have lower expectations than black teachers for the same black students in the same schools. The idea that race impacts teacher expectations is
Imagine your students leaving your class at the end of the school year telling their friends what Nika told his: You are going to want to take a class from Mrs. Baker. She is awesome
In our July 29 post, “A New Look at Assessments: The Student Performance Grid” we showed you how to conduct a detailed analysis of a classroom assessment of students’ learning. After sorting the student work, we began with the less proficient work samples. We entered
“There is no dawning save for the path of night.” - Kahlil Gibran Have you ever wondered about the psychological discomfort of sitting in complete darkness? Imagine you are in an auditorium full of people and the lights go out unexpectedly. Chaos could ensue. In the
At the beginning of this school year in September 2014, for the first time in our country’s history, the overall number of Latino, African-American, and Asian students in public K-12 classrooms surpassed the number of white students. The numbers are expected to continue to grow