Belonging

Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching

This resource is a useful guide to help teachers be successful in personalized learning environments.

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Culturally Conscious Instructional Strategies

"CCI are researched based strategies that have been recorded to engage students with classroom instruction. CCI strategies are not additional strategies but it is an approach that will enhance the instructional repertoire and mind-set of the teacher."

Systemic Equity Implementation Rubric

"The Implementation rubric, will allow district and school teams to engage in explicit dialogue that will lead to clear objectives and actions for the improvement to be implemented. "

Race Matters User's Guide

"This Toolkit is designed to help you – the organizational decision-maker, the advocate, the elected official — get better results in your work. You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t care about opportunities for all. The Toolkit can assist you in producing equitable opportunities and results by helping you stay intentional and focused on those goals."

Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

This toolkit is based on a case example from a Foundation and their individual and institutional experiences that foster equity, diversity, and inclusion.

School Policies and the Success of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students

"Policies and practices that might be successful overall could actually help one group of students while harming another, so care should be taken when evaluating them to see whether they are benefiting all, some, or no students – and whom they are benefiting."

Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol

In this article, the authors share results of a mixed methods study that examines using the Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) for teacher professional development. The CRIOP is a comprehensive framework and evaluation tool that operationalizes culturally responsive instruction.... Read more about Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol

Culturally Responsive Teaching Innovation Configuration

Research article and observation tool to assess implementation of culturally responsive teaching practices.

Teachers at Work—Six Exemplars of Everyday Practice

Authors conduct research, summarize and illuminate core elements of student-centered learning that teachers can use in their practice.

Literacy Practices For African-American Male Adolescents by Alfred W. Tatum

"Alfred W. Tatum takes a fresh, cross-disciplinary approach to advancing the reading and writing development of these students."
" Addressing internal and external factors particular to this group— and absorbing lessons from the historical reading and writing practices of African-American writers and leaders—can build resiliency and other critical resources that African-American male adolescents must have in order to succeed in school and in life."

A Framework for Understanding Whiteness in Mathematics Education

"The framework developed and presented here illustrates three dimensions of White institutional space—institutional, labor, and identity— that are intended to support mathematics educators in two ways: (a) systematically documenting how whiteness subjugates historically marginalized students of color and their agency in resisting this oppression, and (b) making visible the ways in which whiteness impacts White students to reproduce racial privilege."

June Jordon School for Equity

The June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE) Pedagogy Project is a school for social justice serving a largely working-class, Latino and African-American student population. This exemplar school in SF Unified has developed a pedagogy rooted in equity and social justice.
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Creating An Intentionally Diverse School:Lessons Learned

Description of how intentionally diverse schools have created a culture of belonging (see pgs 5 - 7).

Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont

DCIS at Fairmont is a diverse multicultural magnet that seems to go out of its way to engage families and the community via involvement in school decisions, regular parent meetings and interaction, as well as an interactive school app (all of which are done in multiple languages) -- See link for more description of tactics.

In the Classroom: Pedagogy to Activate Student Voices

An innovative program in California’s Oakland School District focuses on changing the narrative about young African American males in order to radically change the outcome of their lives.