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…

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Equity toolkit

…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…

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#vted Reads about Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades

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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…

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#vted Reads

…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…

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Identity

…personalized learning starts with identity 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…

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#vted Reads: The Benefits of Being an Octopus

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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…

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#vted Reads: Troublemakers with Mike Martin

In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk with South Burlington curriculum coordinator Mike Martin,about Troublemakers, a book by Carla Shalaby. We touch on what we're really doing when we ask our students to code-switch, Black Lives Matter, and the trouble with classroom norms, and we pose the question: 'How do school systems bestow unearned privilege on some, and un-earned hardship, on others?' Oh, and we talk about Harry Potter. Naturally.

…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,…

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#vted Reads: Dive Into Inquiry

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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…

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#vted Reads: Hemingway, with Elijah Hawkes

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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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