This past year, we’ve asked thousands of educators from across the country to stand with us at the intersection of equity and standards work. We asked them to look for the justice we all seek in the details of teaching and learning. Each time we gather at the Standards Institute, we start the week by examining the growing body of …
The Standards Institute was life-changing for me. What I realized is in spite of the fact that we are passionate educators that love our children and know education is the pivot point to reach the next generation, we nonetheless still simply do the best we can with what we know.
We were honored to sit down with Leroy Gaines, principal of Acorn Woodland Elementary in Oakland, CA, and learn how the five charges inform his daily work, practice, and leadership.
How do we get students to engage authentically—to genuinely desire to communicate their ideas—in both ELA and math? This is a central question in Dr. Timothy Shanahan’s and Dr. Jeff Zwiers’ keynotes at the summer Standards Institute. United by a desire to improve student outcomes across the country, Shanahan and Zwiers implored participants to examine the role that language, specifically …
Conversations about equity often stay in the schoolhouse. The conversation might happen in an afternoon PD session, or it might be a one-on-one discussion with a colleague. But how often do we bring the conversation about equity to the communities in which we serve? More important, have we considered the context of our times and current public opinion of schools? …
Attending the Standards Institute was like a rebirth for me, and I am positive that I am not alone in that sentiment.
Ask yourself: “Where does my belief gap begin, and how have my expectations expanded it?”
The Winter 2018 Standards Institute continued a movement. Here are my five biggest takeaways from those five days.
Throughout last week, educators attending the Winter 2018 Standards Institute took a deep dive into the standards and were charged to confront themselves and the biases that show up not only in their instruction but the education system they support. As the conference came to a close, here are just some of the epiphanies they left with: …
How often do you think about your privilege and how it may come across in the classroom? Implicit bias is prevalent in our schools, and most times, Black and Latino students bear the brunt of the bias that lives in all of us. In this keynote address from our Summer 2017 Standards Institute, Kristen Ehlman and Lacey Robinson discuss how …
