Belonging Resources: Articles
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A New Report Shows School Discipline Is Meted Out Unequally According to Race, Gender, and Ability
By Rachelle Hampton
| Article exploring 2018 Government Accountability Office study which found disproportionate disciple practices across racial groups in K-12 schools. |
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African American Parents Before and After Brown
By Cheryl Fields-Smith
| Paper offering a pre- and post-Brown retrospective on African American parental involvement in school districts in the southeastern United States. |
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Before and after School Desegregation: African-American Parents' Involvement in Schools
By Patricia Edwards
| Article describing the efforts since desegregation to invite African-American parents to become involved in school affairs. |
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Building Trust with Schools and Diverse Families
By Cori Brewster and Jennifer Railsback
| Article exploring trust, culture, and family involvement in the context of family-school partnerships. |
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Creating An Intentionally Diverse School: Lessons Learned
By New Schools Venture Fund
| See pages of 5-7 for a description of how intentionally diverse schools can create a culture of belonging for students. |
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Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol
By Powell, Rebecca; Cantrell, Susan Chambers; Malo-Juvera, Victor; Correll, Pamela
| Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) for teacher professional development and summary of tool's impact. |
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Culturally Responsive Teaching Innovation Configuration
By Terese Aceves, Michael Orosco for University of Florida's CEEDAR Center
| Article detailing themes and practices for Culturally Responsive Teaching - also includes Culturally Responsive Teaching Innovation Configuration tool for identifying Culturally Responsive teaching elements within academic course syllabi. |
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Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont
By RIDES
| Best practices from Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont, a Denver Public Schools magnet school centering equity in the ways they engage families and community. |
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Diversity: School, Family, & Community Connections Annual Research Synthesis 2003
By Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
| Review of school-family partnership research. |
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Do We Still Segregate Students?
By JULIE HALPERT
| Article exploring current tracking practices and detracking efforts in schools. |
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Family Engagement in Education: Seven Principals for Success
By Michaela W. Colombo
| Article exploring the Parent Partnership for Achieving Literacy at Methuen Public Schools and its success building bridges between teachers and culturally diverse parents. |
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Family Literacy Nights and Other Home-School Connections
By Joanna Smith, Chuan Ally Kuzin, Kris De Pedro Priscilla Wohlstetter
| Guide offering seven strategies for better family-school partnerships. |
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Framework for Understanding Whiteness in Mathematics Education
By Dan Battey & Luis Leyva
| Article describing mathematics as a racialized space to understand how whiteness in mathematics education oppresses students of color and influences White students to reproduce racial privilege. |
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Hearing the Lions Story
By HOWARD STEVENSON
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Article exploring use of storytelling to empower students to describe and address racial stress. |
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In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Competency-Based Education
By Chris Sturgis
| Article unpacking the concept of equity in competency-based learning, reviewing key equity strategies that have been developed to serve historically underserved students, and offering frameworks for discussion. |
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Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum
By KM Walsemann and BA Bell
| Article examining the impact of within-school segregation on students' behavior and educational aspirations. |
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Leading and Learning With Diverse Families in Schools: Critical Epistemology Amid Communities of Practice
By Cooper, Camille Wilson; Riehl, Carolyn J.; Hasan, Angela Laila
| Article highlighting the danger of deficit-based views of diverse families when building school-family partnerships. |
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Lifting Up Our Kings: Developing Black Males in a Positive and Safe Space
By Chris Chatmon and Richard Gray
| Article describing Office of African American Male Achievement in California’s Oakland School District which focuses on changing the narrative about young African American males. |
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Literacy Practices For African-American Male Adolescents by Alfred W. Tatum
By Alfred Tatum
| Report exploring practice for literacy development for African-American male adolescents that includes cognitive, psychological, biological, and socio-historical perspectives on student-centered learning. |
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Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
By Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Cassandra M. D. Hart, Nicholas W. Papageorge
| Paper exploring the long-term impacts of students' experiences learning from a same-race teacher. |
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Parental School Involvement and Children's Academic Achievement
By Nancy E. Hill, Lorraine C. Taylor
| Study outlinging mechanisms through which parental school involvement affects achievement and identifying how patterns and amounts of involvement vary across cultural, economic, and community contexts and across developmental levels. |
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Patterns of Policy Perspectives on Diversity in Teaching and School Leadership
By Leslie Fenwick
| Policy paper discussing and offering solutions for the state of diversity of teachers and its relationship to quality. |
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Reaching Out to Diverse Populations: What Can Schools Do to Foster Family-School Connections?
By Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
| Guide for building family-school connections with diverse parent populations. |
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Remedying School Segregation: How New Jersey’s Morris School District Chose to Make Diversity Work
By PAUL TRACTENBERG, ALLISON RODA AND RYAN COUGHLAN
| Report outlining Morris School District's (NJ) ongoing commitment to integration. |
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Restructuring and Reculturing Schools to Provide Students with Multiple Pathways to College and Career
By Mehan Hugh
| Article presenting "detracking" efforts at The Preuss School in San Diego to adopt "multiple pathways" to college and career readiness. |
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Student-Centered Learning How Four Schools Are Closing the Opportunity Gap
By Diane Friedlaender
| Case studies of four California high schools excelling with student-centered learning models. |
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Teachers at Work—Six Exemplars of Everyday Practice
By Barbara Cervone, Kathleen Cushman for Jobs For The Future
| Report detailing the core elements of student-centered learning, the teacher's role in student-centered environments, and professional learning considerations to support implementation of both. |
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Teaching Tolerance Classroom Culture
By Teaching Tolerance
| Report outlining 5 strategies for building a classroom culture conducive to anti-bias education. |
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The School-to-Prison Pipeline
By MARILYN ELIAS
| Article explaing school-to-prison pipeline and offering school and district level best practices for discipline. |
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To Close the Teacher Diversity Gap, Start with Education Schools
By Dan Weisberg
| Blog post attributing K-12 teacher diversity gap to lack of diversity in higher education teacher preparation programs. |
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Transgressions: Teaching According to bell hooks
By Susan E. Hill, Linda May Fitzgerald, Joel Haack, Scharron Clayton
| Article describing what it looks like to teach to transgress according to bell hooks' framework. |
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Vital Voices: Lessons Learned from Board Members of Color
By Vernetta L. Walker and Deborah J. Davidson
| Article offering a process for diversifying a board and insight into the experiences of board members of color. |
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White Students Reflecting on Whiteness: Understanding Emotional Responses
By Nathan R. Todd, Lisa B. Spanierman, Mark S. Aber
| Study interviewing white students on Whiteness in which the impact of racial color-blindness and racial affect on white students are explored. |
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Youth Rising: Centering Youth Voice in the Quest for Equitable and Inclusive Schools
By Taucia Gonzalez, Larry D. Love, Mary L. Johnson, Ninoska Picón, Josué Velázquez
| Article showcasing story of billingual students using youth participatory action research (YPAR) as a means to center their voices in school change efforts. |
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