Equity 101 Session 6

Session 6: Online Conversation with Best-selling Author Bonnie Davis on Equitable School Culture

Join Curtis Linton and Bonnie Davis for the next webinar on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 9 a.m. Pacific/ 10 a.m. Mountain/ 11 a.m. Central/ 12 p.m. Eastern
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For thirty-eight years, Bonnie Davis has shared her passion about education with thousands of fellow teachers and students. She has taught at many levels and in a wide variety of diverse settings: middle schools, high schools, community colleges, four universities, a homeless women's shelter, a shelter for runaway adolescents, and a men's prison. In this powerful Equity 101 webinar, engage with Curtis Linton and Bonnie Davis as they discuss equitable school culture: a safe learning environment for educators and students alike, and culturally competent administrators and teachers. Bonnie Davis' best-selling book How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You will serve as the basis for this conversation that will help you learn culturally relevant teaching strategies in order to reach all students, especially students of color and those from diverse backgrounds.

Homework for Equity 101 Session 5

Thank you for joining the webinar last week about Building an Institutional Culture of Equity! The next webinar will be August 31st. Curtis will be speaking with best-selling author Bonnie Davis on Equitable School Culture.

Homework for Equity 101 Session 5:

Describe your Equitable School culture according to:
1. Your greatest success,
2. Your greatest challenge.

Explain in detail.

Email to: curtis.linton@schoolimprovement.com

Equity 101 Session 5

Building an Institutional Culture of Equity
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What is the greatest obstacle for equity that all students face? The institution itself--whether a school or district--poses the greatest challenge to students from a diverse background in receiving an equitable education. As long as the educators within the institution remain unalarmed and uninformed as to why certain student groups--as defined by race, economics, and language--continue to perform below their peers, then a school site will never attain equity. Engage in this dynamic webinar which will address how to change institutional culture so that equity for all students can be achieved. Join Curtis Linton as he presents the key elements of institutional equity: Who are "we" as educators? Who are our students? And, what is the learning culture of the school? When institutional culture becomes equitable, all students succeed.

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Homework for Equity 101 Session 4

Thank you for joining the webinar last Friday with Michael Fullan. Don't forget you can view the webinar on PD 360 in the Equity 101 group under "content." Homework for the 4th session of the Equity 101 series is listed below:

After listening to the discussion with Micahel Fullan, describe the role of equity in traditional school leadership. How can an effective educational leader (administrator and/or teacher leader) use equity to drive change at the school? What strategies should be used? How should resistance be addressed?

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Equity 101 Session 4

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August 6, 2010 10 a.m. (MDT)

Join the conversation as Michael Fullan and Curtis Linton discuss the critical role of leadership in building equitable schoools in the fourth webinar of the Equity 101 Series. Best-selling author Michael Fullan is one of the foremost experts in accomplishing systemic change in education. Discover Fullan's Motion Leadership principles and see how they guide educators in quickly moving change forward. Explore these effective school improvement efforts through the lens of equity. With Fullan and Linton, learn how effective leadership is central to building equity for all students.

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Homework for Equity 101 Session 3

Thank you to everyone who attended session 3 of the Equity 101 series! We look forward to seeing you on Friday, August 6, at 10 a.m. (MDT) when Curtis will interview change expert Michael Fullan about equity and leadership.

Homework for Equity 101 Session 3:

What did you learn from Sandy Nobles in terms of:

1. Equity Leadership
2. Practical equity as applied in schools. Define according to The Equity Framework: leadership, culture, and practice.

Email to: curtis.linton@schoolimprovement.com

Equity 101 Session 3

Equity 101 Session 3:

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July 29, 2010, 10 a.m. (MDT)

Join us in this informative webinar where Curtis Linton will interview Sandy Nobles, former principal of Northrich Elementary in Dallas, Texas, a school that turned from one of the lowest performing schools in the district to 100% of students at grade level!

Homework for Equity 101 Session 2

Describe yourself as an equity leader according to:

1. The Authentic Equtiy Definition

2. The Equity Framework--your efforts in developing equitable leadership, culture, and practice.

Email to: curtis.linton@schoolimprovement.com

Free Equity 101 Certification Session 2

Equity 101 Session 2:
July 22, 2010 10 a.m. (MDT)

The Equity Framework: Learn about this powerful framework for building equity school and system-wide, based on schools that have eliminated their achievement gaps.

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This 12 week series with 12 webinars is based on Curtis Linton's forthcoming book Equity 101, showcasing dozens of highly successful schools visited by School Improvement Network that have closed their achievement gaps and lifted all students to grade level and above.

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