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What Is It About Me You Can′t Teach?: Culturally Responsive Instruction in Deeper Learning Classrooms (BOOK)

In response to the racially and ethnically diverse classrooms of this century, Rodriguez, Bellanca, and Esparza use this volume to propose a framework for expecting and acquiring excellence from all learners.

What Four Divides Teach About Digital Equity, an Analysis (PDF)

Digital equity sets out to remove barriers to entry and participation by ensuring everyone has the technological capacity to participate in these online spaces. Still, what exactly is digital equity and how can educators support it in classrooms, schools, and districts? In order to unpack and better understand digital equity, this whitepaper analyzes digital equity through the lens of four specific digital divides: access and connectivity, digital readiness, digital use, and representation; explores potential solutions to each; and offers example of how educators are already addressing these in their classroom.

What Explains the Race Gap in Teacher Performance Ratings? Evidence From Chicago Public Schools (Article)

Black teachers in Chicago are more likely than their White colleagues to teach economically disadvantaged and lower-achieving students. Moreover, Black teachers systematically teach in schools with significantly worse organizational climates—less effective leadership, fewer collaborative opportunities among teachers, less support for ambitious instruction, and weaker connections to their students’ families than their White peers.

Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) (Webpage) 

The WEEAC houses a number of equity related resources on a variety of topics.  This center is no longer providing technical assistance to states. 

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (BOOK)

Based in activist tradition, Love persuades educators to teach students about racial violence, oppression, and their ability to change society for the better.

Watch our Town Hall Meeting: Supporting Youth Mental Health In the Transition Back to the Classroom, with the California Department of Education (Website)

NAMI partners with CDE to explain the importance of and strategies for supporting the mental health needs of youth; how families and loved ones can support youth going back to school during the pandemic; and ways to advocate and get involved in policy changes for youth mental health.

Wading Through Quicksand: Making Sense of Minority Disproportionality in Identification of Emotional Disturbance (PDF)

This study examines assumptions underpinning disproportionality in the category of emotional disturbance and the implications for the meaning we make of research findings related to disparities in special education and students’ needs.

Using Equity Data from Classrooms to Support Teacher Learning for Racial Equity (Website)

Teachers—especially White teachers—rarely have opportunities to learn how to teach for racial equity. This study explored a teacher professional development model organized around EQUIP (https://www.equip.ninja/), a research-based classroom observation tool that generates quantitative data on equity patterns in students’ classroom participation. 

Using an Embedded Mixed Methods Design to Assess and Improve Intervention Acceptability of an Equity-Focused Intervention: A Methodological Demonstration (Article)

Urban Collaborative: Leading Equitable and Inclusive Education (WEBSITE)

The Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative is comprised of approximately 100 U.S. urban school districts. The organization stresses the need for inclusion, including access to rigorous academic content, for all students. It defines itself as a forum for professional growth for teachers and administrators concerned about special education. Urban Collaborative: Leading Equitable and Inclusive Education. 2016. https://www.urbancollaborative.org/who-we-are (accessed April 6, 2018).