Mirrors/Windows/ Sliding Glass Doors
A story that accurately, respectfully and complexly portray other experiences, cultures and perspectives.
What is a window?
A prejudice that can influence how we perceive, treat or make decisions about people or situations.
What is bias?
Students develop a strong sense of who they are and where they belong. Recognizing their cultural background, values and lived experiences.
What is the identity pursuit?
"A child's development is shaped by environmental systems." His theory emphasized how multiple layers of influence collide to shape students’ ability to live and learn.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
This framework emphasizes that all families—regardless of income or background—have valuable knowledge worth recognizing in schools.
What is funds of knowledge?
A story where students see themselves in characters, settings, language, family structures, abilities and cultural practices.
What is a mirror?
Unconscious or unintentional bias.
Requires awareness.
What is implicit bias?
Mastery of both academic and social/emotional abilities Learning how to do things, not just know things, and apply it to real-world situations.
What is the skills putsuit?
The INDIRECT environment of interaction: parents work, school board policies, community resources
What is the exosystem?
Rather than focusing on student deficits, this educational approach recognizes and builds upon the strengths, talents, and prior knowledge students bring from home and community.
What is assets-based learning?
A student steps into a story and sees a new perspective and is able to build empathy through conversations and active engagement.
What is a sliding glass door?
Conscious or intentional bias.
Chosen behavior.
What is explicit bias?
Pleasure, creativity, and fulfillment in learning. Celebrating culture with the freedom to explore interests and express oneself
What is the joy pursuit?
The connections and interactions between microsystems.
What is the mesosystem?
A teacher invites a student's parent to share their expertise in carpentry, cooking, or business during a classroom lesson. This practice directly applies this concept
What is using funds of knowledge?
A student reading a story about a child growing up in another country and learning about that culture and experience through the character.
What is a window?
Viewing assertiveness from a privileged, white student as “leadership” and the same assertiveness from a black student as “disrespectful” or “aggressive”.
What is implicit bias?
The drive to understand the how and why things work using critical thinking and analytical abilities.
What is the intellectual pursuit?
Cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. Economic systems and socioeconomic status. Educational philosophies and policies.
What is the macrosystem?
When a teacher incorporates a student's home language, cultural traditions, or family skills into the curriculum to make learning more relevant and meaningful, they are doing this.
What is using culture to build on funds of knowledge?
A student reads Esperanza Rising by Esperanza Rising and imagines what it’s like to move from Mexico to the United States, experiencing the character’s challenges and culture firsthand.
What is a sliding glass door?
This "bias" can lead to harsher punishments, fewer opportunities and lower expectations. This "bias" can limit academic achievement, self-esteem and future opportunities for students in marginalized groups.
Wha tis unexamined bias?
The process of students developing the ability to think, analyze systems, structures, power dynamics, and question assumptions.
What is the criticality pursuit?
Changing schools or graduating, divorces or marriages, wars or deployments, social movements (BLM/LGBTQ+)
What is the chronosystem?
This shift in mindset moves away from 'What's wrong with this student?' to 'What strengths and resources does this student bring?
What is assests-based learning?