Equity
Phase 1
"Look-Fors" During Observation
Remember: The most helpful part of the observation is not checking off items, but the conversations and reflections that happen after the visit.
Remember: The most helpful part of the observation is not checking off items, but the conversations and reflections that happen after the visit.
Beginning/ Developing
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Practicing/ Achieving
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Questions to Guide Observation
- How does the teacher track and understand their interactions with students in order to help them increase the quality of those interactions?
- How do teachers calibrate proficiency levels for student work in order to identify patterns of bias?
- How do students learn appropriate language for asking questions about others’ cultures and sharing details of their own?
- What artifacts or evidence do you see of lines of difference being acknowledged, affirmed, and reflected in the learning environment?
- What do you hear in the language used in the classroom that reflects valuing differences or using differences to label or divide?
Resources
- Using Board Games to Help Fight and Understand Bias: This article explores how gaming can be used to push people to think beyond bias and prejudice.
- I Don’t Think I’m Biased: A case study on how educators confronted their attitudes on race and privilege.
- Four Ways Teachers Can Reduce Implicit Bias: Tips to help teachers treat all their students with dignity and care.
- Global Best Practices: Section 1.1 of this tool addresses Equity in the classroom as a key best practice.
- Culturally Responsive Teaching Mindsets: Examples and Non-examples: This one pager gives specific language that supports Culturally Responsive Teaching.
- Equity Toolkit: This extensive toolkit is an exhaustive resource for understanding and applying equity practices in a school setting.
- New Tools for Conversations about Bias, Race, and Change: This toolkit provides messaging and framing strategies for how to talk to Americans about demographic change and unconscious bias.

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