Browse Books by Keyword: "Equity"

Cultural Knowledge for Teaching Welcome to Making Meaning: Fostering Equitable Learning for All in My Elementary Classroom. The overarching purpose of this book is to enable equitable teaching in K-6 classrooms. Specifically, we want to help teacher…

"Students are willing to struggle with unfamiliar language and abstract notions in science, math, and other content areas when they are motivated by interesting activities they and their families value." (Tharp, Estrada, Dalton, & Yamauchi, …

“I am my language.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana scholar and poet “In order to learn, students must use what they already know so as to give meaning to what the teacher presents to them. Speech makes it possible …

Learning Outcomes Recognize barriers to device and internet access for students and their parents; Understand digital equity strategies to improve learning and communication; Identify resources to support technology integration in the classroom …

This chapter discusses the affordances of applying user experience (UX) methods to designing technology for understanding learners’ classroom experiences. The chapter highlights a student survey designed to support teachers in building equitable cl…

Equity means to provide students what they need, according to their social positions in an unjust world (Banks & Banks, 1995). Meaningful classrooms for students from minoritized communities foster regular conversations about issues of fairness,…

One of the more difficult issues related to agency in education is designing for equity for all learners. Learners enter into every course with unique learning goals, pre-existing knowledge, epistemological preferences, sociocultural contexts, and pr…

This case study examines interviews describing the experience of social reading and lurking as a form of informal learning. This study details the ways educator lurking occurred in the Marginal Syllabus, a public informal learning community that disc…

This article traces the emergence of Equity Unbound, originally founded as “equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural learning curriculum” (Equity Unbound, n.d.) and designed with a critical curriculum approach. We outline how our de…

Our research explores coherence between diversity, equity, and inclusion goals that faculty articulate in advance of the design process and their enactment within massive open online courses (MOOCs). The purpose of the study is to gain an understandi…