Category Archives: school reform
The Common Core, Pre-Reading, and Equity
Our Curriculum Developer Zaretta Hammond co-authored an article for the new issue of Phi Delta Kappan titled “Text and Truth: Reading, student experience, and the Common Core” (requires subscription). Zaretta and her co-author Susan Sandler write that the Common Core … Continue reading
Equitable Turnaround Approaches
A new report on turnaround schools came through our in box last week, representing a welcome alternative view of leadership and change to the dominant approaches in the education system that aligns with National Equity Project approaches. First, the dominant approach to improving … Continue reading
Posted in achievement gap, Leadership, Relationships, school reform
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Teaching with a Cultural Eye and Listening
We welcomed over 40 teachers and other educators, including teams from nine bay area K-12 schools, to our most recent Teaching with a Cultural Eye (TCE) Institute last week (March 15-16) to learn, discuss, and reflect on relationships with students in the context … Continue reading
Posted in Changing the Discourse, Coaching, Constructivist Listening, Effective Teaching, Equity Pedagogy, school improvement, school reform, Uncategorized
Tagged growth mindset, social emotional learning, student engagement, teaching with a cultural eye, techer student relationships
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Detroit Parents Visiting Schools – Update
We blogged recently about working with parents in Detroit on how to productively evaluate their schools. Now the parents have begun their school visits, organized by Excellent Schools Detroit, and there was a nice piece on it in the local … Continue reading
A policy in need of turnaround
This is a share from the Public Education Network weekly news blast: In a commentary in Education Week, [National Equity Project Advisory Board member] Pedro Noguera and Alan Blankstein lament the approach to school turnarounds prescribed by the DOE, which they … Continue reading
LaShawn Routé Chatmon interviewed in America’s Wire
Our executive Director LaShawn Routé Chatmon was interviewed for a national news story, “Educators Alarmed: Minority Teenagers Performing At Academic Levels of 30 Years Ago,” by Teresa Wiltz for America’s Wire. The article explores the fact that “while achievement levels … Continue reading
Right and Wrong Drivers for Systems Reform
We are reading and thinking about this excellent recent paper by Michael Fullan, “Choosing the wrong drivers for whole system reform,” which reinforces our approaches and helps us expand upon them. Fullan identifies four “wrong” drivers for systems reform in education, … Continue reading
Posted in achievement gap, Changing the Discourse, education reform, Policy, school reform
Tagged Michael Fullan, systems reform
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Too Important to Fail: The Dropout Crisis of African American Males
Tavis Smiley is a busy man. Besides a “poverty tour” with Dr. Cornel West, he is producing video episodes for his PBS show, including this recent one on the challenges of the high school drop out crisis among African American males, … Continue reading
The Growth of Coaching
Great overview at the Ed Week Teaching Now blog on the new piece by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker about coaching. After looking at sports and performing arts, Gawande examines teacher-coaching programs to see how “regular professionals” can use … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Effective Teaching, school coaching, school reform
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American Teacher documentary
The National Equity Project is a proud partner of the new documentary, American Teacher, produced by our friends at the Teacher Salary Project and screening initially in the Bay Area in early October. To purchase tickets for the San Francisco … Continue reading
Posted in achievement gap, Changing the Discourse, school reform
Tagged documentary, teacher salary, teachers
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