Resources Focused on Advocacy
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Education in the Balance: Tensions Affecting Education's Future
Explore "Education in the Balance" and learn tensions affecting education's future: leadership, contested power and strained systems.
Topics: Competency-Based Learning, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Family and Community Engagement, Policy and Advocacy
Youth Examine How to Improve Education for ESL/ELL Students
As part of a youth-led research project, students examine how their district can improve educational experiences for ELL students.
Students Explore the Disadvantages Female Students of Color Face
What advantages and disadvantages do female students of color face in schools, and how does it affect their learning journeys?
Students Explore How Schools’ Impressions Impact Accomodations
As part of a youth-led research project, students examine how schools' impressions of students impact the accommodations they receive.
Topics: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School and Classroom Culture, Student Agency and Voice
Researchers of Color Make All the Difference
Students and youth researchers deserve to have mentors who can understand their lived experiences and can step back to let...
White Teachers: How to Support your Black Colleagues
Supporting the needs of Black teachers and recognizing their emotional labor is crucial in the fight for racial justice.
State Guidance for Building Resilient and Equitable Education Systems
This guidebook provides education stakeholders with important considerations for this calendar year and beyond.
Topics: Curriculum and Instruction, Policy and Advocacy, School and Classroom Culture
Black Student Voices: Reflecting on Race and Racism in Schools
This Education Week series provides an opportunity for educators to hear from students directly regarding race and racism.
Students Are Demanding Anti-Racist Curriculum and Instruction
Students across the country are demanding their districts embrace more culturally diverse and explicitly anti-racist curriculum.
Topics: Curriculum and Instruction, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Policy and Advocacy, School and Classroom Culture
Why There's a Push to Get Police out of Schools
This article and accompanying podcast from MindShift explores the rationale for decreasing police in schools.
Topics: Curriculum and Instruction, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School and Classroom Culture
Planning for Success in the Fall Starts with Personalization
Equity concerns exacerbated by COVID-19 school closures can only be addressed if educators commit to personalization.
Topics: Curriculum and Instruction, School and Classroom Culture, Student Agency and Voice, Whole Child and Relationship Building
10 Questions for Equity Advocates to Ask About Distance Learning
This report from Digital Promise and Education Trust explores the biggest equity challenges that districts face from school closures due...
Topics: Curriculum and Instruction, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, School and Classroom Culture