Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys (BOOK)
In its third printing, Fergus, Noguera, and Martin's seminal text continues to help educators understand and educate boys of color within protective school environments.
Citation/Source
Fergus, Edward, Noguera, Pedro, and Martin, Margary. 2015. Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Publication Date 2024
Confronting and Combating Bias in Schools (WEBPAGE)
By highlighting Angela Ward, Supervisor of Race and Equity Programs in Austin schools, the author shares with readers particular equity challenges and successes in an expanding urban district.
Citation/Source
Blad, Evie. 2019. 2019 Leaders to Learn From: Angela Ward. “Confronting and Combating Bias in Schools.” Education Week February 20, 2019.
Publication Date 2024
Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning (BOOK)
One of America's top ten educators, Linda Darling-Hammond uses this text to provide educators with a pathway to prepare students to meet the demands of a diverse and complex world. Darling-Hammond, Linda, and Oakes, Jeannie. 2019. Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute.
Citation/Source
Darling-Hammond, Linda, and Oakes, Jeannie. 2019. Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute.
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Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders, 3rd ed. (BOOK)
Offers approaches and activities for enabling educational leaders to gain a personal understanding of what cultural proficiency means in practice; use collaborative activities to effect change in a school; and lead a learning community toward becoming a culturally proficient organization.
Citation/Source
Lindsey, Randall, Kikanza Nuri Robins, and Raymond Terrell. 2009. Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instructional Strategies (PDF)
Describes differentiated instruction, what it is and how it applies an approach to teaching and learning for diverse learners and includes information on the principles of differentiated instruction, seven building blocks, and available resources.
Citation/Source
Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality, New York University (2007).
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Distinguishing Linguistic and Cultural Differences From Disability (WEBINAR)
Distinguishing Linguistic and Cultural Differences From Disability Presented by Alba A. Ortiz, Ph.D. This webinar is presented via the State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project (SPPTAP) and the Napa County Office of Education with funding from the California Department of Education.
Citation/Source
Ortiz, Alba. 2013. Distinguishing Linguistic and Cultural Differences From Disability. State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project.
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Equity by Design (WEBINAR)
Equity by Design was presented by Dr. Nancy Dome on May 22, 2018. During this webinar Dr. Dome provided concrete steps for educational organizations to follow as they intentionally and proactively embed equity into all aspects of their institutions. The session included activities to develop skills and push thinking; and provided tangible next steps to embed "Equity by Design."
Citation/Source
Dome, Nancy. 2018. "Equity by Design." State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project.
Publication Date 2024
Implementing PBIS with a Racial Equity Lens (WEBINAR)
Implementing PBIS with a Racial Equity Lens was presented by Dr. Kent McIntosh and SPP-TAP on January 23, 2018. Many schools are implementing PBIS in efforts to reduce racial disproportionality in school discipline. Although there is research showing that schools implementing PBIS with fidelity have more equitable school discipline, eliminating disproportionality requires a specific equity focus. In this webinar, Dr. Kent McIntosh and SPP-TAP shared specific strategies and free resources for enhancing the cultural responsiveness of PBIS systems.
Citation/Source
McIntosh, Kent. 2018. "Implementing PBIS with a Racial Equity Lens." State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project.
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Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (BOOK)
The book explores how practitioner's beliefs about non majority students can limit student’s educational trajectories. It is an important book for practitioners to read because it provides insight into how prejudices, stereotypes and other biases can hinder educational growth of students.
Citation/Source
Delpit, L. D. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York, NY: New Press, 1995.
Publication Date 2024
(The) Context of Minority Disproportionality: Practitioner Perspectives on Special Education Referral (ARTICLE)
The article examines how the local contexts of school districts affect teacher’s perceptions of special education and students. The article is useful to practitioners because it gives insight into how teacher’s perceptions may be related to disproportionate outcomes.
Citation/Source
Skiba, R.J., Simmons A., and others. “The Context of Minority Disproportionality: Practitioner Perspectives on Special Education Referral”. Teachers College Record. Volume 108, No. 7, 2006: 1424-1459.
Publication Date 2024
