Language matters!
The words we use shape the narratives we tell ourselves and the actions we take. Have you identified any language in your system that you believe needs to evolve?
Changing language can change the game. Let's rewrite the rules by changing the conversation.
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
As educators it can be difficult to spot when we are actually the ones limiting students’ ability to achieve. This graphic helps us identify beliefs and behaviors that we can change in an effort to be more equitable in our practice.
School transformation starts with personal transformation of our beliefs and behaviors about teaching and learning.
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
As an instructional coach, I am hearing these equity traps being expressed by teachers more often than I would like. Teaching is hard, no doubt. However, when we constantly expressed this type of defeat, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This spills into our classes and negatively impacts our students. We might not say these things to their face, but they will feel it in the way we look at them, instruct them, and talk to them.
This is the main reason why professional learning opportunities and communities are imperative. As educators, we must remember to go into these spaces with an open mind and ready to learn something new about students, learning theories, instructional practices, etc. Change is sometimes needed, and as habitual as teachers are...this can be difficult and scary. Just as our society constantly changes and the world develops...your practices needs to do the same.
How can you apply skills, activities, strategies to your content even if that workshop/training may not seem to be relevant at first? Just like we want our students do think on a higher level and make connections, we must do the same thing.
My goal is to help teachers change their perspectives, reflect on their practices, and work through and improve an educational system that has prevented students gain academic success. It's tiring and discouraging at times, but I cannot give up on our students and teachers.
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
A good reminder of thinking traps best we can fall into as teachers. In such a demanding role it is easy to become despondent and downhearted, but the way we frame and express our thinking has such an impact on both our wellbeing and our ability to be as effective and solution focused as we can be.
As hard as it can be to find and focus on, there is always a positive, a possibility or a creative solution to be found and followed.
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
As educators, what Equity Traps are we falling into when we review student achievement data? What actions do we need to take to change the narrative?
#instructionalcoaching#equityineducation
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
As we prepare for next year: Equity gap monitoring is a judicious process that commands an honest review of our practices.
Reflect. Be honest with ourselves. And be better.
CLNA: What makes you better…Makes you BETTER.
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
The four types of equity traps rings a loud bell for conversations we are having about the learners in our schools. Naming and knowing these allow us not to repeat these. I’m also sure I can add a 5th trap around neurodiversity…
It’s the ADHD…
It’s the autism…
It’s the dyslexia…
Or often this is good enough or this is good for a student with…
#equityineducation#equityandinclusion#equityineducation#equitydiversityinclusion#equitymatters
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
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To avoid falling into equity traps and to make authentic gains, we have to be willing to ask ourselves some challenging questions and to take responsibility for the outcomes.
Do we presume competence in our students?What are we doing that may have/may not have contributed to these outcomes?
Are we focused on what we can control?
What might we do differently?
What might we do less or more of?
Did we truly give the strategy time to work?
Did we provide the right scaffolding?
What else might we try?
During a collective review of student data, Bayview teachers encountered a common challenge: falling into equity traps.
An equity trap distracts from understanding the root causes of inequity by shifting thinking and personal responsibility.
via Ed Leader Jennifer Ahn#Equity#Data
Chronic absenteeism is a growing concern in education, leading to significant challenges such as learning losses, lower graduation rates, and increased social isolation for students. As the number of chronically absent students continues to rise, the long-term socio-economic impacts become more pronounced, affecting not just individual students but entire communities.
#k12#enrollment#chronicabsenteeism
As we are all aware, the number of chronically absent public school students has significantly increased. What measures is your district taking to ramp up family and student engagement? Our program, ENGAGE, multiplies your district’s capacity to provide human support, gathers insight into student barriers, and supplies you with actionable data insights — all to stabilize and improve attendance and school performance. Ready to start the conversation? Click here: https://lnkd.in/emrTM5kW#ChronicAbsenteeism#AttendanceRecovery#AttendanceIntervention
As we are all aware, the number of chronically absent public school students has significantly increased. What measures is your district taking to ramp up family and student engagement? Our program, ENGAGE, multiplies your district’s capacity to provide human support, gathers insight into student barriers, and supplies you with actionable data insights — all to stabilize and improve attendance and school performance. Ready to start the conversation? Click here: https://lnkd.in/emrTM5kW#ChronicAbsenteeism#AttendanceRecovery#AttendanceIntervention
