Attending to Equity

Designing Remote Learning for Equity and Access

Remote learning that promotes equity and access is responsive to students’ individual and collective lived experiences while building upon students’ funds of knowledge. It contributes to an individual’s engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the cultivation of relevant learning experiences.

Essential Criteria:

• makes education accessible to all students;

• is co-constructed by students, families, community, and schools;

• affirms racial and cultural identities to foster positive academic outcomes;

• develops students’ abilities to connect across cultures;

• empowers students as agents in their own teaching and learning;

• anticipates and designs the education experience around and in response to particular social and cultural differences.

Source: NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools