EQUITY MATTERS 2
Bilingualism and Disability: Meeting the Needs of all Learners
This workshop will address the needs of students who are bilingual/ELL and also present with one or more disability. Participants will learn about the best practices in evaluation for bilingual students with suspected special needs, and designing effective intervention for suspected disability during the language development phase. Participants will leave with a better understanding of disability/diverse learning needs, and how to address them in a variety of settings. Participants will discuss behavioral interventions and trauma informed classrooms as a model for behavioral support.
Instructors: Meghan Singh
Ensuring All Students Are Visible
This workshop aims to create a conversation with hopes that it will continue beyond our session, about making sure ALL students feel and remain visible inside our classrooms, not only throughout the semester or year, but for the duration of their time at CRLS. Come prepared to engage in discussions about some best practices that can help educators to maintain student visibility – at all times.
Instructors: Jen Sarmiento & Erik Scott
*This presentation is not available
Lessons on Culturally Responsive Creativity from the Music Classroom
The purpose of this session is to encourage teachers of all subjects to include truly creative components in their curricula that leave room for students' cultural experiences to affect their classroom experience. Teachers will also connect culturally responsive creativity to the concept of transfer of learning. By having authentically creative spaces in our classrooms we can ensure that the lessons taught within our four walls result in life-long connections that enhance every part of the learning process.
Instructors: Eytan Wurman
*This presentation is not available.
Promoting Healing with Our Students and Ourselves
We can’t take care of others while neglecting ourselves, thus, this workshop is promoting healing for and with our students and ourselves. Participants will gain a greater understanding of some aspects of mental health and leave the workshop with tools to support not only the youth they work with, but themselves, as well.
Presenter: Ayesha Wilson
Ten Questions for Young Changemakers: Participatory Politics in the Digital Age
The Ten Questions for Young Changemakers is a reflection and action framework to support young people to develop civic/political agency in ways that are equitable, effective and self-protective---especially when creating content on digital platforms. In this workshop, we will explore what it means to educate for democratic, participatory readiness. What does that mean? Come find out!
Presenters: Kathleen FitzGerald & Chaebong Nam
*This presentation is not available.
Using Music to Engage Students in a Critical Exploration of Their World
Music is more than just entertainment; Beyonce's Lemonade, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, and J. Cole's 4 Your Eyez Only speak to that truth - and every student you ask will tell you the same, no matter their preferred genre. This workshop aims to capitalize on that knowledge and discuss ways in which educators can take this shared passion and study it as a critical voice: a voice our students can take out of this school and put into their community.
Presenter: Meighan Bannon
Why Does Hiring Teachers of Color Matter?
During the session we will examine the question "Why does hiring teachers of color matter?" Come and see what it means and/or look like when we talk about “going the extra mile, building relationships, and engaging students in instruction in order to support students of color in the classroom – from the perspective of a teacher of color.
Presenters: Michelle Fulkerson, Kareem Cutler and Christopher Godfrey
Systems to Improve THE System
CRLS High School teachers regularly express frustration at their students’ struggles to read and analyze grade level texts and to demonstrate effective studentship skills. Despite teachers’ best efforts many students are stuck in the fail and repeat cycle that is evident from 9th grade onwards. For some students, that “fail and repeat cycle” predates high school. The purpose of this workshop is to highlight some of the systematic educational inequities that have led to underprepared students at the high school level. Then the presentation will explore specific, general education RTI (Response to Intervention) strategies to empower teachers to help break the fail & repeat cycle many low achieving students are stuck in. Educators will walk away with a solid understanding of what RTI is in the general education classroom as well as specific suggestions for implementing both general and some content interventions.
Instructors: Rachel Parrish
Also presented in EQ3