Help a culture of equity grow and thrive in your school!
This second book in the groundbreaking Equity 101 series takes on culture: the cultures we come from as individuals and the culture we foster in our schools. With students and educators from so many different backgrounds, how do we create a school culture of equity in which everyone succeeds?
Discover the actions teachers and administrators take to do just that. Using real-life success stories as models, you’ll start
- Recognizing inadvertent cultural biases and increasing educators’ cultural competency
- Overcoming institutionalized factors that limit achievement
- Implementing equitable practices that ensure individualized support for all students
Featuring chapter-specific implementation exercises that take you from ideas to action, plus a dedicated online community with videos and discussion groups, this book is the next step on your path to true equity in your school!
‘Creating, nurturing, and sustaining an educational culture where individual differences are affirmed, and instruction is continuously tailored based on these differences, is essential to enhancing student achievement. This book is your practical how-to guide.’
—David Freitas, Professor
Indiana University South Bend
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Prologue
1. A School Culture of Equity
2. The Equity Framework
3. Equitable Culture: Expectations
4. Equitable Culture: Rigor
5. Equitable Culture: Relevancy
6. Equitable Culture: Relationships
7. Equitable Culture: Actualization
Epilogue
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Consulting Description Bonnie M. Davis, Ph D, is a veteran teacher of more than forty years who is passionate about education. She taught in middle schools, high schools, universities, homeless shelters, and a men’s prison. She holds a doctorate in English from St. Louis University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Teacher of the Year in two public school districts, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Anti-Defamation League’s World of Difference Community Service Award. She has presented at numerous national conferences and currently works in school districts across the country. Dr. Davis’ work centers on examining what “we don’t know we don’t know” about ourselves in order to more effectively teach students who don’t look like us. Moving from self reflection to action, her books offer educators culturally responsive, standards-based instructional strategies that bridge culture, language, race, and ethnicity.Dr. Davis’s publications include the How to Teach Students Who Don’t Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies(2012);How to Coach Teachers Who Don’t Think Like You: Using Literacy Strategies to Coach Across Content Areas (2007); The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy(2009); and Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias (2012) with coauthor Kim L. Anderson. She is currently working on the Equity 101 Series with Curtin Linton, Executive Vice President of School Improvement Network.
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