Equity in Our Schools
Ensuring Marginalized Students Achieve at a High Level- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2023
Summary
Practicing equity in our schools can ensure all students master rigorous standards and graduate high school college and/or career ready. The author, a long-time public-school educator, helps her colleagues understand more deeply what the practice of equity involves and how to use it to create cultures and systems in our current schools that go beyond a rudimentary education for some students to ensuring even the most marginalized of students achieve at the highest levels. This book encourages teachers, principals, and district leaders to each maximize the practice of equity in their various positions so that together we ensure a bright future for our children and our country. Equity practices in nurturing school culture, reading instruction, content area literacies, effective instructional practices, student supports, social services, and distribution of resources is required to ensure equality in outcomes so that education truly becomes the great equalizer Horace Mann proclaimed it to be.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2023
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-6906-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-6908-8
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 214
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter 1 What Is Equity? No access Pages 1 - 6
- Chapter 2 Foundations of Equity in Schools No access Pages 7 - 12
- Chapter 3 Building Cultures that Support Equity No access Pages 13 - 52
- Chapter 4 Reading—The Basis of Equity in School No access Pages 53 - 76
- Chapter 5 Literacy in the Content Areas No access Pages 77 - 96
- Chapter 6 Highly Effective Instruction No access Pages 97 - 112
- Chapter 7 Student Supports No access Pages 113 - 144
- Chapter 8 Social Services No access Pages 145 - 164
- Chapter 9 Allocating Resources for Equity No access Pages 165 - 184
- Epilogue No access Pages 185 - 188
- Bibliography No access Pages 189 - 202
- Appendix A No access Pages 203 - 210
- Appendix B No access Pages 211 - 214





