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This article first appeared in the February Issue of the Coaches Corner Newsletter
This article first appeared in the February Issue of the Coaches Corner Newsletter
Progress in your Equity Journey with this PLN
Progress in your Equity Journey with this PLN
By Audrey Thornborrow
By Audrey Thornborrow
The Sauk Rapids-Rice mission, as stated on our district website is to “provide a world-class education in a collaborative environment that inspires EVERY learner to think, achieve, and care. Our SRR vision includes providing EQUAL access and opportunities to ALL students. Our belief statements say that we will provide INCLUSIVE, SAFE, and caring learning environments for our students. If we truly live by our mission and beliefs, if we truly reach for our vision, then we need to make sure we understand what the words EVERY, ALL, EQUAL, and INCLUSIVE really mean and how we as educators play an important role in bringing equity to all students.
As Shelby Chollet stated in Storm Strategies article, our words matter. As Steph Schlangen stated, our grading practices matter. As Crystal Davidson, Deanna Euteneuer, and Cindy Heideman stated, representation in curriculum and literature matters. As we saw in our Staff Spotlights of Ashlee Johnson and Gina Rudolph by Sandie Lahr and Amy Woolsey, our passion to learn and grow in our own journey as well as the way we design our lessons with our students in mind matter.
Many of us have not faced the inequities that students and families face on a daily basis, so it is our duty to educate ourselves so we can have a deeper understanding, hence providing our students with the quality education we state we will provide to all our SRR students. The following educators are wonderful people who are willing to help us as we learn and grow. They are willing to challenge us. They are willing to provide resources. They are willing to help us do the necessary work that will help make us all better educators. Educator and author Dr. Anthony Muhammad asserts, “equity can never become a reality in education if it's viewed as charity instead of professional obligation.” With that, I encourage you to spend time learning from these educators. It’s our professional obligation to our students’ success.
Jed Dearybury began his education career in 2001. During his 13 year early childhood classroom tenure, Jed received numerous awards. He was featured in GQ Magazine as Male Leader of the Year, met President Obama as the SC winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and was named as a top 5 finalist for South Carolina Teacher of the Year because of his passion, love, and success in education. He is a fierce advocate for the LGBT Community. And has been a guest on the OnEducation Podcast as well as John Spencer's Podcast where we talked about his new book The Playful Classroom.
Follow Jed on Twitter.
Author and educator Alexs Pate launched Innocent Classroom in 2012 with a vision to eliminate the power of racial stereotypes in our schools through authentic relationships between teacher and child. More than 8,000 educators in 300 schools are using the Innocent Classroom.
Alexs’ teacher-by-teacher, school-by-school approach shows results where other efforts have failed.
Listen to him on the OnEducation Podcast. Check out his work on his website and follow him on Twitter.
Natasha is a Minnesota educator. She is currently Director of Information and Learning Technology for Watertown-Mayer Schools. She is a former Schoology Ambassador and Google Certified Educator. She is the co-host of the Black and Blond Podcast where she and her co-host Molly attempt to make sense of a world that through their eyes is literally black and white. It's a conversation about race; it's a conversation about life.
Bettina L. Love is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Education at the University of Georgia, where she has been instrumental and a pioneer in establishing Abolitionist Teaching and schools. According to Love, Abolitionist Teaching refers to restoring humanity for children in schools. Love also advocates eliminating the billion dollar industry of standardized testing.
Listen to her episodes on the Too Dope Teachers Podcast and follow her on Twitter.
Dr. Sharroky Hollie is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators in the area of cultural responsiveness. Since 2000, Dr. Hollie has trained over 150,000 educators and worked in nearly 2,000 classrooms. His latest book is Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning. You can find out more about his work through the The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning website.
Mike is a K-5 School Librarian. He has taught for 21 years and helps teachers and librarian curate collections of books that are mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors so ALL students are represented and find themselves in the books they find in their schools. He has great ideas to share. You can follow him on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and learn from his work on his website.
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