The Learning Guides provided here are referenced in the Building Educational Equity presentation slides and video. Handouts also supplement the information and strategies provided in the presentation.
Learning Guide 1: What are your personal and professional contexts? guides you in considering how your strengths and challenges can affect your work in increasing student achievement.
Learning Guide 2A: Your Institutional Data encourages you to gather and consider your own academic data, demographics, and school culture data to identify areas of need.
Learning Guide 2B: Your Inside-Out Path asks you to acknowledge who you are as a person and what constitutes your belief systems.
Learning Guide 2C: Your Inside-Out Path - Racism challenges you to reflect on and start tackling racism.
Learning Guide 3: Cultural Learning and Intelligence asks you to consider what is involved in deepening relationships with those in your communities. You will also look more intently at your understanding and comfort with Teaching Quality Standard #5.
Learning Guide 4: The Equity Framework: Foundational Characteristics guides you in reflecting on your context and the four foundational characteristics of the Equity Framework.
Learning Guide 5: Leadership explores characteristics of leadership within the Equity Framework.
Learning Guide 6A: Practice guides you in exploring the nature of good teaching and reflecting upon your own pedagogical practices.
Learning Guide 6B: Practice - Culture Based Teaching asks you to consider how your curriculum, planning, instruction, and assessment are culturally relevant.
Learning Guide 7: Culture guides you through an exploration of a healthy school culture with a focus on four key areas.
Learning Guide 8: Next Steps guides you in determining next steps on three different levels - personal, institutional and professional.
The handouts below provide additional background and research links. These handouts are referenced in the Building Educational Equity Facilitator Guide and support and enrich the information provided in the Learning Guides.
The Resource List provides links to resources for developing and applying Indigenous foundational knowledge as well as those that support elements of the equity framework.
The Equity Framework introduces the four common characteristics of educational equity, from Curtis Linton (2011) Equity 101: The Equity Framework.
The 2005 Research Findings summarize the findings of Kim Barker-Kay and Pauline Auger in the identification of barriers to Indigenous student achievement.
The 250+ Influences on Student Achievement illustrates John Hattie's research synthesis, from 1400 meta-analyses of 80,000 studies involving 300 million students, into what works best in education.