{"id":34136,"date":"2023-03-23T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=34136"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:49:16","slug":"equity-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/equity-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moral imperative behind our work at TIIE has always been equity. It is also the basis of the middle school movement that we hold dear, which originated as a challenge to the status quo of junior high schools. As progressive educators, we promote shifts in education to bring more equitable outcomes, more humane learning spaces, and expanded opportunities for students to analyze and act to bring greater justice to our society.<\/span><\/p>\n

We promote equity through practices represented in our toolkits such as positive <\/span>Community and Culture<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Identity<\/span><\/a> work for inclusiveness and belonging; <\/span>Proficiency-Based Education<\/span><\/a> to focus on growth and cross-curricular skills like the <\/span>Essential Skills and Dispositions<\/span><\/a>; <\/span>Personalized Learning Plans<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Student Led Conferences<\/span><\/a> that enhance student ownership; and engaging pedagogies like <\/span>Project Based Learning<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Service Learning<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And an important shift in the middle school movement over the last decade is the recognition that equity needs to be explicitly centered in order to be effectively pursued. While it may be a driver behind the work, and there are important practices that promote it, equity itself demands to be named, analyzed, researched, learned, taught, and applied. Please see below for some of our favorite blog posts that address equity head-on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On equity in education and middle school<\/b><\/h2>\n