Title: 10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity | Cult of Pedagogy
Headings: 10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
December 2, 2018
Listen to my interview with Pedro Noguera ( transcript ):
1. Challenge the Normalization of Failure
2. Speak Up for Equity
3. Embrace Immigrant Students and Their Culture
4. Provide Students Clear Guidance on What it Takes to Succeed
5. Build Partnerships with Parents Based on Shared Interests
6. Align Discipline Practices to Educational Goals
7. Rethink Remediation, Focus on Acceleration
8. Implement Evidence-based Practices and Evaluate for Effectiveness
9. Build Partnerships with Community to Address Student Needs
10. Teach the Way Students Learn Rather than Expecting Them to Learn the Way we Teach
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Content: In the same ways we want to mainstream special ed students, we want to make sure all kids have access to the full resources of the school and the curriculum. Immigrant students, whether they’re English learners or not, need to take rigorous courses, need to have access to counselors. We can’t allow language to be a barrier to providing high-quality educational service.” To see what this looks like in action, Noguera recommends checking out the work of the the Internationals Network of schools. They have developed a model for serving English learners that results in exceptionally high rates of high school graduation and college attendance. 4. Provide Students Clear Guidance on What it Takes to Succeed
“We have to demystify success for kids,” Noguera says. “ There are certain strategies that we know are more likely to lead to success, and we need to make sure kids know what those strategies are.” Explicit teaching of things like study skills, organization, note-taking, and time management can all help students build habits that will lead to success in school. Noguera also points to the resources from AVID, whose programs focus on these skills.