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Using Data to Address Racial Disparities in Your School

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 118C

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Dr. Henry Turner

Principal

Newton North High School
@turnerhj
@turner_hj

Henry Turner, Ed.D., is an award-winning high school principal, author and nationally renowned speaker. Pointing to his unwavering commitment to equity and a student-centered culture, Turner was named 2020 K12 Principal of the Year by K–12 Dive. Turner is the author of the newly released book “Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School.” As a national speaker and coach, Turner works with educators, leaders and communities on how to create a culture that commits to diversity, equity and inclusion; empowers students’ voices; and addresses economic and racial disparities.

Session description

Educational technology in the classroom can improve how we create more inclusive classrooms or how we exclude students if we don’t consider DEI needs. This workshop will help leaders and educators keep an equity focus in the classroom around issues such as assessment practices and decisions around software and hardware.

Purpose & objective

This workshop will help leaders and educators keep an equity focus in the classroom around issues such as assessment practices and decisions around software and hardware. Leaders will be able to help educators to address their bias and make instructional and technology decisions that are aligned with equitable practices.

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Outline

I. Defining Equity Based Leadership (10 minutes)
a. Definition of Equity
b. Challenges Educators face with equity vs equality
c. Examples of Inequitable practices

II. Creating a Call to Action (30 minutes)
a. Fostering a Community
b. Using data to identify disparities of traditionally marginalized populations---
1. School-based grade disparities
2. Localized math disparities.
c. Building consensus
d. Instructional Practices
e. Assessment and Grading

III. Helping Educators to embed equitable instructional practices (20 minutes)
a. Coaching educators forward
b. Pushing against tradition
c. Supervision and Evaluation

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Supporting research

H. Turner and K. Lopes. Change The Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School

Joe Feldman. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

Peter Lijedahl, Tracy Zagger, Laura Wheeler. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics: 14 Teaching Practices for enhancing learning: grades K-12

Zaretta Hammond and Yvette Jackson. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

Sarah Becker and Crystal Paul. "It Didn't Seem Like Race Mattered": Exploring the Implications of Service-learning Pedagogy for Reproducing or Challenging Color-blind Racism

R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt and Lee Ross. "Discrimination and Implicit Bias in a Racially Unequal Society"

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Racism WIthout Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Watters, A. "To have and to have not: When it comes to the latest technology,
some schools are more equal than others."

Ibram Kendi. How to Be and Antiracist.

Sánchez, P. & Salazar, M. "Transnational computer use in urban Latino
immigrant communities: Implications for schooling".

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Session specifications

Topic:

Equity and inclusion

Grade level:

6-12

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Curriculum/district specialists, Principals/head teachers, Teachers

Attendee devices:

Devices not needed

ISTE Standards:

For Education Leaders:
Equity and Citizenship Advocate

Ensure all students have skilled teachers who actively use technology to meet student learning needs.

Empowering Leader

Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.

For Educators:
Learner

Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.

Using Data to Address Racial Disparities in Your School

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 118C

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