Equity or Equality
True or False
Equal Rights and equal opportunities are the key to equity.
False, equality is giving everyone the same opportunities. Equity is giving each group what they need specific to their background and identities.
Name one social or economic disparity between people of color and their white counterparts.
Unemployment gap
criminal justice system
food access
Name one way you plan to create community among your students!
Projects, curriculum, greetings, celebrations
I am able to walk up the stairs without any additional help.
Able body privilege
What group of people in history were forced to give up their land here in Wisconsin?
Native Americans
Does an equality or equity minded educator consider the following: how they assign homework and communicate with families, understanding that students have different levels of access to resources like computers and the Internet;
Equity
True or False
“Racism can only end if we contend with the policies and institutional barriers that perpetuate and preserve the inequality—economic and social— that we still see all around us.
True
How will you appeal to the different learning styles of your students?
Visual, audio, touch, story telling
I celebrate all of the holidays we get time off for
Christian privilege
The __________are a group of primary undocumented students/youth. The ________movement have been seen tackling issues in regards to immigration, education, and citizenship.
True or False
Systemic Oppression is the reason why we need to implement equity minded practices into the classroom.
True
How did the War on Drugs impact the Black Community?
Limited their ability to move ahead in society. Tarnished their image as a strong people. Perpetuated the narrative of savage behavior.
How will you fight racism, sexism, or any other ism in your interactions with other educators?
Up for discussion
Women who ask for more money are seen as demanding and less likely to be hired. However, the men who ask for more money are seen as assertive.
Gender Privilege
What was the purpose of the blue eye brown eye experiment?
To show students who benefit from white privilege what it is like to be in the shoes of people who live with oppressive identities.
Define the difference between an educator that thinks from an equality mindset vs. an equity mindset!
Equity: Diverse needs
Equality: Same opportunities and approach to all learners.
How does mass incarceration of a parent impact the lives of our students?
How will you handle conflict between a bully and a student considering retaliation in your classroom?
Restorative Justice PRACTICES
You never have to worry about which bathroom you can or cannot use, and you never have to worry about whom you can marry.
Heterosexual Privilege
How can an instructor who usually uses examples drawn only from their own experience fail to reach all students in the class?
Open for discussion
Give one scenario of a time where you witnessed an instructor operate in equity minded instruction!
Open for answers!
The United States has made progress in eliminating some of the institutional, legalized racial discrimination of years past such as slavery, Jim Crow laws, “separate but equal” schools, and prohibitions on voting or owning land. However, what are some ways systemic racism still shows up !
Housing laws
School conditions
Mass incarceration
How can you practice educating students in a way that is meaningful for their individual backgrounds and histories?
Curriculum, discussion of current events, literature that is diverse.
You could afford things like going to summer camp or playing after-school sports. You can afford to go to college, or being able to afford putting yourself in debt in order to go to college. It means being able to afford a full-time, unpaid internship.
Socio-Economic Privilege
Name 3 strategies of how you will incorporate the readings from this course in your teaching practices!
Open for discussion.