How might we design for a more just and equitable future?

Designing for Equity

As you embark on the journey of reimainging school, you have a profound opportunity to notice the ways that systemic injustice impacts learning and schooling – and design to disrupt that injustice.

This session explores the correlation among your biases, blind spots and your own lens, as well as the impact of that lens on your work to reimagine school in service of equity and justice.

This journey will require your team to dig deep to uncover new truths, explore their own lenses and push beyond assumptions. See here for some tips on how to nurture a rigorous and productive space.

Explore the inequitable history of schooling in America and elevate insights to help you interrupt that injustice.

Texts

• Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life

• Beyond the viral video: Inside educators’ emotional debate about ‘no excuses’ discipline

• The Ongoing Battle Over Ethnic Studies

• Conundrums of Integration

• Educating Latinos: An NPR Special Report

• Response to intervention and the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education

• Talking to kids about racism and justice

• Subtractive Schooling, Angela Valenzuela

• Whistling Vivaldi: Reducing Identity & Stereotype Threat, Claude Steele

• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?, Beverly Tatum

• Everyday Anti-Racism: Getting Real About Race In Schools, Mica Pollock

• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

TOOLS + PROTOCOLS:

• National School Reform Faculty Equity Protocol

• National School Reform Faculty Equity Perspectives

• A Tool For Aligning Internal Operations To Produce Progress

• Project Implicit Implicit Bias Test

VIDEOS + PODCASTS:

• A Conversation About Growing Up Black

• A Conversation With White People On Race

• A Conversation With Latino-Americans On Race

• A Conversation With Asian-Americans On Race

• Courage is Contagious, Damon Davis

• Empathy v. Sympathy, Brene Brown

• Proximity, Bryan Stevenson

• The Problem We all Live With: The Achievement Gap & Segregation Podcast | Transcript

SHORT STORIES, POEMS OR EXCERPTS: 

• Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp, Cindy Williams

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli

• Piecing Me Together, Renee Watson

FULL-LENGTH FILMS:

• 13th

• Baltimore Rising

• Off the Rez

DATA:

• Measuring Up, Center for Reinventing Public Education (scroll to key takeaways)

• Education by the Numbers, The New York Times

• From Birth to School to Old Age, National Geographic

• 20 Facts about U.S. Inequality, Stanford University

WEBSITES:

• Racial Equity Tools