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  Culturally responsive coaching for inclusive schools: A guide to planning your LeadScape Coaching Dialogues

  1/13/10 - Mulligan, Elaine, Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

  "NIUSI-LeadScape coaching consists of a series of structured, one-on-one, interactions between a coach and coachee aimed at enhancing the coachee’s effectiveness in developing inclusive school practices. These interactions can be face to face, by telephone, or combined with team meetings as required. Coaching can be used to support teachers, support personnel, instructional leaders, or school principals as needed to reinforce inclusive practices. Coaching addresses multiple layers of...

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  Culturally Responsive Teaching Matters!

  1/26/10 - Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

  "In 2000, Professor Geneva Gay wrote that culturally responsive teaching connects students’ cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles to academic knowledge and intellectual tools in ways that legitimize what students already know. By embracing the sociocultural realities and histories of students through what is taught and how, culturally responsive teachers negotiate classrooms cultures with their students that reflect the communities where students develop and grow...

• Inclusive Education for Equity

  1/1/09 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King

  Inclusive education, in policy and practice, rejects the exclusion and segregation of students, for ANY reason: gender, language, household income, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, ability, or any dis/ability. Simultaneously, because of an active commitment to equity for all students, inclusive educational systems maximize the participation of all learners, by making learning opportunities relevant and high-quality. This is only achieved through the systemic exploration...

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  Keeping the Faith and Climbing One Mountain at a Time: Reflections of Two Mothers on Their Children's Educational Journeys

  1/5/09 - Marquita Grenot-Scheyer , Hilda Sramek , Evelyne Milorin, Equity Alliance at ASU

  In this OnPoint we share the accounts of two mothers who have faced many challenges posed by schools and other human services agencies. Despite these challenges, discouragements, and setbacks, these two families, like many others of their “generation,” have endured, met the challenges, and developed a remarkable resiliency.

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  Schools on the Move: Benito Martinez Elementary School

  1/27/09 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU

  These publications reflect authentic work going on in our synergy sites. Anchored by the Systemic Change Framework, we plan to continue this series by engaging student voice, examining teacher practice, and exploring additional schools and systems all in the context of urban education.

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  Schools on the Move: JC Nalle Elementary School

  1/27/09 - Phil Ferguson, Rick Blumberg, Equity Alliance at ASU

  These publications reflect authentic work going on in our synergy sites. Anchored by the Systemic Change Framework, we plan to continue this series by engaging student voice, examining teacher practice, and exploring additional schools and systems all in the context of urban education.

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  Schools on the Move: Kepner Middle School

  1/27/09 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Gwen Meyer, Equity Alliance at ASU

  These publications reflect authentic work going on in our synergy sites. Anchored by the Systemic Change Framework, we plan to continue this series by engaging student voice, examining teacher practice, and exploring additional schools and systems all in the context of urban education.

• A commentary on Schon's view of reflection.

  1/1/89 - Grimmet, P.
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  Achieving Gender Equity in Public Education: A Scenario Planning Resource for Advocates, Policymakers and Practitioners

  1/16/10 - Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation, The Schott Center for Public and Early Education

  "This report reflects our recent efforts to understand how to ensure that the next generation of girls and boys enjoy respectful schools and classrooms in which they can grow and succeed. We want all children to have the benefits of an education that provides them with a full range of life options and helps them become decisionmakers and leaders. We hope this publication will serve as a useful discussion tool for organizations, foundations, and individuals interested in creating more...

• Acquisition of simple and complex knowledge: a knowledge gap perspective [computer file]

  1/1/05 - Le Heron, Judy, Sligo, Frank

  This paper assesses university students' acquisition of simple and complex knowledge, in exploring whether the knowledge gap hypothesis (KGH) with its origins in community-based research into people's informal learning from mass media, provides insights into students' acquisition and retention of information. The KGH posits that attempts to equalise knowledge within a community by releasing new information into it often either has no such effect, or even worsens knowledge inequities. The...

• Advocacy as a Critical Role for Urban School Counselors: Working Toward Equity and Social Justice

  1/1/05 - Bemak, Fred, Chung, Rita Chi-Ying

  The academic achievement gap of students of color and low-income students as compared to middle and upper socioeconomic students and White students has been clearly documented. Historically the long-standing role of the school counselor has contributed to the status quo of these inequities, inadvertently maintaining educational and social disparities. This has been reflected in school counselors' training, role or job descriptions, and actual practice. This article explores the need for a...

• An Approach to Eradicating the Achievement Gap: Making Instruction Meaningful

  1/1/08 - Campos, David

  The article discusses how lessons taught to white and Asian students may eliminate the achievement gap. According to the author, social factors affect children of color including African American and Latino school children making them not as proficient as their white and Asian-American counterparts. An overview of the lesson plan reflecting questions on the students' personal experience that relate to social, political, and economic conditions is offered. The author suggests that teachers...

• Are gifted girls motivationally disadvantaged? Review, reflection, and redirection

  1/1/02 - Dai, David Yun

  Over the past 2 decades, much research on gifted girls has revolved around the issue of whether they, compared to gifted boys, are motivationally disadvantaged in achievement settings. While research and anecdotal evidence seems to support this hypothesis, most recent educational statistics show the closing of the gender gap. In this article, the literature is reviewed and critiqued as to the existence of alleged gender differences, as well as task and social conditions, and putative...

• At the Heart of Teaching: A Guide to Reflective Practice (The Series on School Reform)

  1/1/03 - McEntee, Grace Hall; Appleby, Jon; Dowd, JoAnne; Grant, Jan; Hole, Simon & Silva, Peggy

• Attributed for academic achievement: A comparative study in tribal and non-tribal settings

  1/1/08 - Rath, Muralidhar

  The failure or poor performance of tribal students in their academic tests has initiated deep debates and grave discussions now-a-days. It is worthwhile to note that tribal students in India are not only they who reside in ashrams or hostels of different urban schools and colleges, and are mostly compared by researchers with non-tribal students. Rather, a major portion of tribals dwell in rural and tribal settings and some of them pursue their education in poorly maintained schools and...

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  Beyond the golden rule: a parent's guide to preventing and responding to prejudice

  1/26/10 - Dana Williams

  "Whether you are the parent of a 3-year-old who is curious about why a friend’s skin is brown, the parent of a 9-year-old who has been called a slur because of his religion, or the parent of a 15-year-old who snubs those outside of her social clique at school, this book is designed to help you teach your children to honor the differences in themselves and in others — and to reject prejudice and intolerance. Three age-specific sections feature everyday parents sharing personal stories...