Racial Equity: ESSM Fall PD by Alexandra Baer Chan

Guiding questions:

abaerchan1 — 2024-11-05 02:05:22 UTC

How do you know which school is which?
How do ESSM’s demographics compare to other Townview schools?
Is this a problem, and if so, why?
What do you think the root causes are for the discrepancies you notice?

Guiding questions:

abaerchan1 — 2024-11-05 02:06:00 UTC

What patterns do you notice?
What is your reaction to this?
What might be the root cause?

abaerchan1 — 2024-11-05 02:07:37 UTC

Notice a pattern but unsure of how to move forwards?
Curious about a resource or strategy?
Need clarification on a term or theory?

Guiding questions:

abaerchan1 — 2024-11-05 02:12:14 UTC

What is a strategy or system that you use in your classroom to ensure equity?
What’s something you wish you could do better to ensure equity?
What’s something you/we could implement in the future to improve equitable outcomes?

You can specify whether this is an individual strategy or a collective strategy, and whether this would be an immediate or gradual change.

How do I know which school is which?

2024-11-05 16:42:45 UTC

I thought about:

1) What I see in the hallways (in terms of racial demographics) for each school.

2) The scholastic focus of each school and how that corresponds to academic interests characteristic of particular ethnicities/racial demographics.

Writing

abaerchan1 — 2024-11-05 16:57:17 UTC

As a 9th grade teacher, I noticed some of the biggest gaps in writing, largely due to the middle schools my students were coming from. Some had achieved excellent writing instruction while others had received barely any. I am still working to find/develop writing scaffolds to help close this gap, but found that the students who responded best to writing support did so because they had strong relationships with me

I also use a randomizing system for cold calling, but I'm on the lookout for other approaches. Obviously we can't fix economic inequity which is the root of these gaps, but I am worried about the unconscious bias that might lead me to lean into students who are more engaged in class.

2024-11-05 17:02:44 UTC

Roster performance data

2024-11-05 17:03:20 UTC

The performance data on my roster did not show any major gaps in terms of performance by racial demographics, but there were indicators that suggested gaps based on being economically disadvantaged. I wonder what I can do to help close the performance gaps for ED students, and I wonder to what degree racial demographics might be an underlying factor even if it is not blatantly apparent from performance data.