Getting personal about systemic equity
Sometimes pursuing systemic equity in education can feel a little like the carrot vs. the stick. Since No Child Left Behind, federal education policy has talked about equity while applying…
Read moreSometimes pursuing systemic equity in education can feel a little like the carrot vs. the stick. Since No Child Left Behind, federal education policy has talked about equity while applying…
Read more…favorite posts about equity, including analyses and syntheses about equity in general, how to support equity in professional learning and in classrooms, and examples of student projects with equity at…
Read more…professional learning about equity 3 ways to ensure equity is at the heart of your work by Scott Thompson Suggestions include equity audits, the Equity Literacy Framework, and examining your…
Read more…Equity audits Equity audits help examine us examine gaps in opportunity. Even more, they identify solutions to addressing those gaps. First and foremost, Teaching Tolerance recommends using the equity audits…
Read more…let’s fight for it directly. We don’t need to rely on entry points like engagement. Our middle school movement equity needs to actively promote equity both instructionally and institutionally. Just…
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…equity-focused frameworks and pedagogies intersect with (and actually improve) traditional middle grades frameworks. And some of those equity-based frameworks include cultural responsiveness, culturally sustaining pedagogies, reality pedagogy, equity literacy, funds…
Read more…have a common meaning of equity. The National Equity Project defines it this way: Educational equity means that each child receives what he or she needs to develop to his…
Read moreLindsay McQueen, a middle school science educator at Edmunds Middle School, in Burlington VT, originally presented “Challenging Simplified Notions About Health Equity in the Middle Grades” in January 2021. She…
Read more…Challenge of Access, Adequacy and Equity (pdf) Bridging the Digital Divide in Schools: Achieving Technology Equity for All Students School systems consider tech equity policies Talk about it Talk with…
Read more“I don’t believe you can be an educator committed to student voice and not be a powerful advocate for equity.” This past August, the University of Vermont played host to…
Read moreCare about equity in education? Start with engagement Educators care about equity. We all want to bring out excellence in our students, but the thing that keeps us up at…
Read moreEquity. In Vermont and beyond, educators and administrators are talking about equity. But what does equity look like in practice? Most importantly, how do we stop talking about it and…
Read more…two things: what we know works best for students, and equity. So let’s take a look at some of the transportation equity issues Vermont schools are facing — and what…
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…change that equity. Centering trauma informed education is more than adding two together, existing trauma-informed education and equity initiatives. Instead, equity-centered trauma-informed education is an integrated and holistic approach.” What…
Read more…only can young adolescents handle it, but they thrive when given the chance to go deep into identity and equity. Let’s take a peek into Christie’s classroom at Frederick H….
Read more…tool — but I’m interested in whether extra credit creates a dilemma when we consider equity. Equity in our schools means that every child has an equal opportunity to access…
Read more…end, all profits from the day are pooled together and divided equally between all students as Boston spending money. Economics, equity, pop-up stores and group tie-dye. Here’s how it all…
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…I could never define myself as an expert in equity. I don’t believe you *can* be an expert in equity. To me, equity is all about that reciprocal learning that…
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…of Gorski’s book is really to expand our capacity to teach for class equity, as he says. He starts with a really awesome quote. I thought I’d ask if you…
Read more…messages the system sends them about how they aren’t good enough. This is an equity issue. In the book Street Data: A Next Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and Transformation,…
Read moreEquity in education has — and needs — many lenses. The work is hard, the work is myriad, the work is vital. While listening to VPR’s Vermont edition the…
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…because you named that specifically. In Vermont — as in many places around the country — we’ve been talking a lot in schools about equity. About doing professional development equity,…
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…Alice Hart: Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades. In some ways the themes are related. Plus, there’s been a pretty strong critique of the middle grades movement as…
Read more…with Jess Lifshitz The 21st Century Classroom · #vted Reads: Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education Episode #48 – Complete transcript of Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education with Alex Shevrin Venet The 21st Century Classroom…
Read more…Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed. The equity principles in the report help districts and schools to create an equity agenda. “Equity is an intentional design feature embedded…
Read more…social justice. Let’s take a look at a couple of units to see how these themes show up in well designed, culturally responsive curricula. Equity, Identity, and Art Christie Nold…
Read more…have to do with equity? Lots, it turns out. First of all, school gardens can help learners understand food systems and equity of access or even serve as a metaphor…
Read more…On equity in the middle school movement Examples of classroom lessons and units Equity, identity, and art Grade 6 unit involving an exploration of social identity, connections to equity, and…
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…The Benefits of Being an Octopus, by Ann Braden. We talk glitter and posterboard, coffee and peanut-butter smoothies, and using the Equity Literacy Framework to dismantle inequality in our systems…
Read more…to students and to equity, here are some supporting words: Getting personal about systemic equity in Vermont shares the journey many of us have been on in our own schools….
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…their journey, whether it’s with equity work, or proficiencies, personalized learning. This is a disclosure: I love proficiency-based learning. That is also how Jeanie and I know each other is…
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…So, as we sit here together in our brokenness, let’s make sure the break is wide enough that we can rebuild with intention, with equity, and with heart. And for…
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…that you feel are fighting for equity? All: Yes. Heidi: I think equity in education is very broad and a very tough topic to tackle because there’s so many angles…
Read more…bunch of other stuff. My focus is on trauma informed education and social emotional learning and equity. Life, do you want to introduce yourself? Life: Sure, thanks, my name is…
Read more…equity, but we know that we and everyone else need to focus on equity — hard and consistently, in-house and beyond — in order to be anything like effective in…
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…your family. But also, I just love how you push me to think more deeply about lots of issues, but especially issues of equity. Thanks for that. And this book…
Read more*Why* do you want to personalize learning? What’s your purpose for using PLPs? Teachers typically have a range of priorities. Two common ones are to increase equity and to foster…
Read more…and “in which people could share their thoughts without fear of having their ideas devalued. I remember thinking that that was pretty powerful. It provided equity for peoples voices.” It’s…
Read more…to the type of anti-racist and equity-focused curricula that is expected to be recommended by Vermont Coalition for Equity and Ethnic Studies in Schools. They both talked about schools becoming…
Read more…4. Emphasis on equity The most critical component of MGI is the requirement that educators construct action research projects. This year, the emphasis is on equity. The experience challenges teachers…
Read more…their potential.” By being appreciative we build student agency. As put in the report Equity and Assessment: Moving Toward Culturally Relevant Assessment, “Our assessments approaches— how we assess and the…
Read more…considerable moral development, and issues of equity, injustice, and sustainability are important fodder for middle school curriculum. Students benefit from seeing that their work can make a difference in the…
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…and talk about how disability too, is an equity issue. I’m Jeanie Phillips, and this is Vermont Ed Reads. Let’s chat. The 21st Century Classroom · #vted Reads: Care Work…
Read moreDigital divide[1], participation gap[2], cultural divide[3]: over the decades the language of equity issues in technology have shifted along with the technology. This shifting language reflects the way we view…
Read moreHow does edtech affect extra credit? Is extra credit still a valid notion as we move towards ubiquitous learning, and grapple with questions of equity in education? If the goal…
Read more…and the community Session 2 – Learn about WWSU initiatives already underway Session 3 – Focus on issues of equity Session 4 – Craft recommendations for WWSU leadership In my…
Read more…pretty helpful. Life: What were people most passionate about in there? Maya: We were talking about the themes and one of them was equity. Life: What does that mean? Jonah:…
Read more…promoted social justice. Books that promoted equity, understanding, and dialogue about the thorny issues of race, class, immigration, and current world issues. We were eager for diverse books and eager…
Read more…outcomes; Consequently, employing multiple strategies in a program will likely increase the odds of getting families to engage and of positively affecting school and student outcomes. …and equity. We cannot…
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…about that, that’s also us, so I’m including ourselves in there as educators. That’s yet another way we let ourselves off the hook in the work regarding equity. It’s like,…
Read more…Cornelius Minor describes in his book, We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be: an imperfect and weary change-agent who is…
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…photography work with photographers. I’ve had students who are interested in talking about racial and equity work with people out in the world who are doing racial equity work and…
Read more…equity traps. I am thankful to scholars of color who have shown me the importance of grounding any meaningful project work in an assets-based approach, and to work toward creating…
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…your classroom. Jeanie: So, you’re reminding me: I teach collaborative practices and facilitative leadership and we just focused on equity using protocols and structures to have hard conversations. Because these…
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…to work on that. Jeanie: I love everything you just said about that. I think about both the ongoing nature of anti-racist work of community-building work. of equity work. Right?…
Read more…learning. And now: a word about equity. None of this works unless it works for everyone. That’s it. That’s the tweet. We know that even with Vermont’s progressive Act 77…
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…new superintendent [Ali Dieng] coming in at the same time I came in. Bringing in this equity aspect and wanting it to be front and center. And I was sitting…
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…I met this amazing teenager, Cara, in Bellows Falls [Vermont]. It was at a cross-class dialogue circle through Equity Solutions. And that was a situation where we were in this…
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…Gholdy Muhammad’s seminal text on equity and criticality: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. The 21st Century Classroom · #vted Reads: Cultivating Genius Jeanie:…
Read more…in djinn lore. A new way that I’ve been finding books in the last few years is when a friend or colleague is published. Alex Shevrin Venet’s Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education…
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…really appreciate that. And I’m hearing two things. One is I recently had a conversation with Alex Shevrin Venet about her book, Equity Centered Trauma Unformed Education. And one of…
Read more…our assumptions I reached out to educator and equity advocate Rhiannon Kim to check our biases about our learners, and to glean some insight into what it means to foster…
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…parking lot, but on campus. And it sparked conversations in our school. And as we evolve in these conversations towards equity and racial justice, really thinking about like, what is…
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