Resources on Equity and Inclusion by Anas Sallam

Students at Risk

anassallam — 2025-02-18 23:25:00 UTC

This video from PBS News Hour shows how students in at risk school in Bronx, New York are succeeding in due to the use of a teaching method called blended learning that uses educational technology on computers to help students learn at their own pace and with their own funds of knowledge as well.

Students at Risk

anassallam — 2025-02-18 23:33:49 UTC

This article written by University of Massachusetts global discusses three strategies for helping at risk students and these strategies include prioritizing relationship building, incorporating a democratic classroom model, and also using an enabling component model that uses interventions to help struggling students get over learning difficulties in the classroom.

Gender Differences

anassallam — 2025-02-19 00:02:26 UTC

This website has a lot curriculum with materials and activities that incorporate a lot of gender inclusivity when talking about topics that have to do with genetics like nondisjunction and inheritance as well.

Gender Differences

anassallam — 2025-02-19 00:13:57 UTC

This article talks about the gender differences and disparity in the classroom particularly in terms of how most curriculum is geared towards boys and the fact that even though most girls raise their hands to ask and answer questions they aren't as supported in their learning as boys are.

SES Differences

anassallam — 2025-02-19 22:46:29 UTC

This video is about a TED Talk from the British School of Brussels wherein the speaker talks about her experiences dealing with women from her native village in India that didn't have the opportunities she did to pursue higher education due to the barrier of a low socioeconomic status.

SES Differences

anassallam — 2025-02-19 22:56:49 UTC

This article discusses how the socioeconomic achievement gap affects students who have a higher SES and a lower SES in terms of brain development, availability of resources, and even success and drop out rates of public schools as well.

Cultural and language difference

anassallam — 2025-02-19 23:09:30 UTC

This blog post from the American University of Washington D.C. is about how to best teacher culturally and linguistically different students in the classroom with strategies that have evidence to show their overall effectiveness.

Cultural and language difference

anassallam — 2025-02-19 23:28:32 UTC

This website gives helps educators by giving lesson plans, activities, and curriculum for 9th grade biology all in Spanish in order to support ELL and ESL students who speak Spanish as their primary language and that come from a background rooted in Hispanic culture as well.

Ethnicity and race difference

anassallam — 2025-02-19 23:42:57 UTC

This video is from the New York Times and deals with teachers giving advice and strategies in dealing with issues of racism and racist talk in the class among students.

Ethnicity and race difference

anassallam — 2025-02-20 00:28:58 UTC

This article goes over how to support learners who racially and ethically diverse in the classroom with activities and lessons that utilizes their funds of knowledge.

Digital inclusion

anassallam — 2025-02-20 23:04:04 UTC

This video brings into perspective new light on the use of inclusive technologies such as speech to text or word prediction in the classroom and their impacts on universal design for learning and equity for different learners.

Digital Inclusion

anassallam — 2025-02-20 23:09:32 UTC

This blog post shares different resources that can be used as a means of incorporating different educational technologies that bring in elements of the universal design for learning to support different kinds of learners in the biology classroom.

Students with disabilities

anassallam — 2025-02-20 23:16:34 UTC

This resources is from Perkins School for the blind and gives great curriculum that has been modified for students that are blind or virtually impaired so that they can get equal access to content like their peers.

Students with Disabilities

anassallam — 2025-02-20 23:20:52 UTC

This is a great article that talks about the experiences that students with disabilities face and the interventions and the support they need to receive in order for them to succeed in the classroom.