Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a webinar to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan.
In this webinar, author Justin Cohen is joined by two educators featured in the book along with Derek Mitchell, the CEO of Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit organization that supported educators in this work. Presenters share:
This interactive webinar presented by Dr. Tommie Mabry provides teachers with real-world insight into how shifting their own perspective on their students can transform the educational process. By taking a deep dive into what shapes students’ perspectives, educators can better understand the beliefs, values, and experiences of students who have been labeled as “troubled” or “at risk.”
Explore strategies for listening for students voices for both large and small groups, including talking stick, think/pair/share, jigsaw, and more, in this chapter from Identity Safe Classrooms, Grades 6-12.
Listen to, watch, and read conversations with Dr. Ali Michael and Dr. Eleonora Bartoli as they explore topics within Our Problem, Our Path on outlets across the United States.
This webinar explores the use of mastery learning instructional strategies to personalize and differentiate instruction for diverse students.
"A fuller investigation of identity safety principles and applying them across the school as useful guides and resources can anchor our understanding for connecting the individual parts into a broader and more manageable view." - Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools.
Explore the four domains of identity-safe schools--Student-Centered Teaching, Cultivating Diversity, Classroom Relationships, Caring Classrooms--and their 12 underlying componants in this excerpt from Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools.
"The work of identity safety emerged as a way to counteract the debilitating effects of stereotype threat. By grasping the pervasive damage of stereotype threat we come to understand the import for identity safety as an antidote" - Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools.
Read the foreward from Shayna Sullivan, PhD, and the Prologue to Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools.
This lesson engages students in using their bodies (i.e., their fingers) as a physical representation to support skip-counting groups of 10. At the same time, students will also unpack this common practice to begin a conversation about body diversity.
Technique 32 from Removing Labels lays out the what, why, and how of student empowerment--giving students the opportunities to influence decisions that will shape their academic lives at school and in the community.