Design Principles for Culturally Sustaining Learning Partnerships
Design Principles for Culturally Sustaining Learning Partnerships
Co-Creative & Reciprocal Community & Relationships
Co-Creative & Reciprocal Community & Relationships
Students and educators in the learning community all know that they matter, are regarded as competent and valuable, and have things to teach and things to learn from each other.
Students and educators in the learning community all know that they matter, are regarded as competent and valuable, and have things to teach and things to learn from each other.
Students are positioned as partners and co-creators in all aspects of the classroom, educators work to flatten power hierarchies in decision making to the greatest extent possible, and decisions and goals are regularly revisited.
Students are positioned as partners and co-creators in all aspects of the classroom, educators work to flatten power hierarchies in decision making to the greatest extent possible, and decisions and goals are regularly revisited.
Students and educators bring funds of knowledge from their home and background and these strengths are utilized, sustained, and enhanced in the classroom.
Students and educators bring funds of knowledge from their home and background and these strengths are utilized, sustained, and enhanced in the classroom.
Meg Spencer - Students' Funds of Knowledge Bring Purpose to Learning
Students and educators seek to do no harm and repair harm when it happens.
Students and educators seek to do no harm and repair harm when it happens.
Students and educators hold high expectations and are provided with the supports necessary to meet expectations.
Students and educators hold high expectations and are provided with the supports necessary to meet expectations.
Meg Spencer (scaffolding, rubrics, conferences}
Teaching & Learning
Teaching & Learning
Learning experiences facilitate student independence and interdependence.
Learning experiences facilitate student independence and interdependence.
Liz Mehls - Social Contracts for Community
Students actively make meaning of their own lives and the world around them.
Students actively make meaning of their own lives and the world around them.
Megan Miller: Keep It Real, Keep It Just
Lisa Carothers: Tell Me a Story
Meg Spencer : College Compositions Learning Partnerships
Students are afforded opportunities to make decisions about what and how they learn.
Students are afforded opportunities to make decisions about what and how they learn.
Jen Brandl & Jen Parker - Differentiation for Decision Making
Liz Mehls - QStorms: Students Asking & Answering Their Own Questions
Curriculum engages students and educators in a belief in their own humanity and the humanity of others.
Curriculum engages students and educators in a belief in their own humanity and the humanity of others.
Sharon Daly - Grounding Instruction & Enhancing Learning
Julie Bernards - You Are More Than A Human Being, You Are A Human Becoming
Corina Rogers - I’m Not A Quitter
Curriculum takes an action-oriented and community-engaged approach to address systems of oppression and inequities by addressing root causes instead of symptoms.
Curriculum takes an action-oriented and community-engaged approach to address systems of oppression and inequities by addressing root causes instead of symptoms.
Meg Spencer : College Compositions Learning Partnerships
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment is assets-based - building on strengths and identifying areas for growth.
Assessment is assets-based - building on strengths and identifying areas for growth.
Liz Mehls - Student Created Rubrics
Students have opportunities to identify their own strengths and weaknesses, set the course for their own learning, and assess their own learning and progress.
Students have opportunities to identify their own strengths and weaknesses, set the course for their own learning, and assess their own learning and progress.
Jen Doucette
Students have opportunities for early failure and actionable and iterative feedback.
Students have opportunities for early failure and actionable and iterative feedback.
Evaluations are responsive to process and product.
Evaluations are responsive to process and product.