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Shared Inquiry and Critical Conversations
Inclusive classrooms must function as learning communities built on shared inquiry and critical conversations.
May 26, 2023
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Centering Student Experiences
When asking students to explore issues of personal and social identity, teachers must help establish braver spaces where students are seen, valued, cared for, respected, and have opportunities to learn from one another’s experiences and perspectives.
May 26, 2023
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Social and Emotional Support
Research shows that students need to feel physically and emotionally supported to learn, but culture, climate and social emotional learning must focus on more than just empathy, kindness and inclusion.
May 26, 2023
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Culture and Climate
“To feel safe and to feel seen. To feel valued and capable of growth. These are simple concepts—basic pillars of student achievement and the results of good pedagogy.”
May 26, 2023
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Restorative and Transformative Justice Begins With Community
Relationship and community are essential in effecting positive change and transforming punitive spaces into nurturing environments. These new articles from the Spring 2023 issue of Learning for Justice magazine highlight the significance of intentionality for building relationship and community—both inside and outside of the classroom—in ways that heal, uplift and create inclusive spaces where all can flourish.
- Healing Through Restoration and Transformation
- Toolkit: Peace-Building Circles
- Time Spent Building Community Is Never Time Wasted
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Social Justice-Based Assessment, Evaluation and Grading
The strategies in this section emphasize and encourage collaboration, authentic engagement and equal opportunity for all students.
May 23, 2023
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Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
Effective collaborative learning requires planning to avoid existing racial, gender, socio-economic, linguistic, academic or other divisions within the classroom.
May 23, 2023
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Supporting Student Action
Educators play a valuable role as adult allies to youth organizing for social justice.
May 23, 2023
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Supporting All Learners Through Differentiation
Differentiated instruction honors differences between students and highlights diversity as a positive aspect of the learning process.
May 23, 2023
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Critical Engagement With Materials
Critical engagement emphasizes the value of students’ learning, increasing the likelihood that they will use the knowledge and skills they build in the service of their academic, personal, social and political lives.
May 23, 2023