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 BECAUSE EQUITY & INSTRUCTION ARE INEXTRICABLY BOUND

Why are equity visits such a critical first step to increasing opportunityand accesss for our underserved students?  Because they take instructional rounds to a new level, providing a powerful lens for investigating the intersections of equity and instruction.  After all, how can we possibly deliver equitable learning experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for our students without first pinpointing problems of practice?

Inside the Flap

"If we are going to interrupt educational inequities and create schools in which every child thrives, we must refine our conversation skills. Coaching for Equity offers extensive strategies for talking about race, power, and systems of oppression, strategies which lead to changes in a teacher's practice. This book is for teachers, leaders, and coaches who accept responsibility for interrupting inequities in schools and who want to build the knowledge and skills to coach for equity.

Coaching for Equity contains an updated Transformational Coaching framework and the tools and rubrics that are necessary to implement this model of coaching. In addition, personal narratives demonstrate what coaching for equity looks like and help us see how we can make every conversation count towards building a more just and equitable world."

"For equity initiatives to succeed, we believe that educators must focus on shaping inclusive environments intentionally designed to foster a sense of belonging by honoring the dignity of each and every person."

--Cobb and Krownapple (p.2)

"Having a belief in the importance of achieving equity, and having the courage to apply passion to such a belief, is what fuels successful educators of underserved students."

--Glenn Singleton

"Students need spaces to name and critique injustice to help them ultimately develop the agency to build a better world.  As long as oppression is rpesent in the world, youngpeople need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."

--Gholdy Muhammad

"Language is powerful.  When you are able to name a thing, it moves out of the realm of mystery into concreteness.  For too long, culturally responsive teaching has been relegated to this realm of magic and mystery, knowledge that only a select few possess."

--Zaretta Hammond (p. 5)

"Reality pedagogy is an approach ot teaching and learning that has a primary goal of meeting each student on his or her own cultural and emotional turf."

--Christopher Emdin

"Education can't save us, we have to save education."  

--Bettina Love