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Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

 

Diversity – Inclusion – Equity 🙌

  • What Does mean?
  • What is Equity important in the Classroom?
  • What does inequity look like?
  • What is the impact of inequity in the classroom?
  • What would like equity look like?
  • What would be the impact of equity in the classroom?

 

What happens when we build an equity mindset? 

Students will win!


Teachers can:

Spot areas of growth in their classroom practice

Teachers reflect on their classroom practices

Learn strategies managing culturally sensitive classrooms with awareness of personal bias and anti-bias curriculum

Understand the implications for equity in their lesson plans

Reflect on strategies that extends equity beyond the classroom

Develop strategies for collaboration with teachers, parents, staff to serve students

Learn strategies for managing the social-emotional needs of students by creating a culture that ensure






Where do I even begin?

  • Systemic Dysfunction race- and class-based stratification
  • Consider Classroom management:

  • fixed vs. growth mindset: “failure is an opportunity to grow”, “failure is the limit of my abilities” “Challenges help me to grow” “I don’t like to be challenged”

  • tracking vs differentiation
  • homogeneous vs heterogenous grouping
  • students’ability is exposed
  • social hierarchy may be a problem
  • focus on community

  • culture management
  • daily routines/checks/activities

 

Considerations for an equitable classroom

  • Content
  • Pedagogy
  • Relationships
  • Outcomes/Expectations
  • Resources: Allocation and distribution
  • Classroom environment
  • Classroom management
  • Daily routines/ Check/ Activities
  • Inclusion practices
  • Stakeholder involvement
  • Student experience engagement, performance
  • SEL, CRT, trauma informed

 

What is the goal?

Compliance – Engagement – Empower

 

Equity Lesson Plan Template

  • -          Lesson introduction and Building Motivation
  • -          Class instructions (whole group mini-lesson, small group, center/stations), Differentiation
  • -          Practice- I do, we do, you do; students’ needs
  • -          Evaluations: do now, checks for understanding, other formatives, summative
  • -          Closing: exit slip, hw, share out, next step