Strategies & Resources to Help Build Equity in your School! by https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj Post your response to the discussion topic by clicking the plus button below. en-us 2025-07-21 20:11:44 UTC 2026-07-21 18:14:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f914.png https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216298 Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain By Zaretta Hammond


]]> 2025-07-22 17:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216298 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216520 Edutopia and haven't read it yet but: "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y’all Too" by Christopher Emdin

]]> 2025-07-22 17:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216520 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216581 Rethinking Schools has amazing lesson planning books. They just came out with one for teaching about Palestine. They provide readings and often have role-plays and simulations, which my middle school and high school students love doing, and help put students in the position to humanize the people they are learning about.

]]> 2025-07-22 17:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216581 lgarcia598 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216586 2025-07-22 17:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216586 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216630 Consistently changing classroom jobs.

Using Class Dojo's randomizer to help you choose students to share out in order to prevent you from calling on the same students repeatedly.

]]> 2025-07-22 17:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216630 sarahsousa10 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216657 In every classroom in our district (K-12), we start our mornings with something called community circle. This is where we are able to discuss these topics with our students. We also attend DEI huddles every week to help us guide these conversations.

]]> 2025-07-22 17:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216657 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216728 strategy I tend to use is a peer accountability partner


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  • Teaching Tolerance / Learning for Justice (free classroom resources and PD)

  • The Equity Literacy Institute (training and tools for educators)

  • Facing History and Ourselves (curriculum and equity-focused history resources)

  • Zaretta Hammond’s “Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain” (book)

  • Glenn Singleton’s “Courageous Conversations About Race” (book and protocols)

  • The Implicit Association Test (IAT) – https://implicit.harvard.edu

  • Edutopia Equity Articles & Videos – https://edutopia.org

    • ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216768     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216792 Culturally Responsive teaching

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216792     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216876 Culturally sustaining pedagogies by Paris


    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216876     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216888 Racial Equity Institute

    BEST PD I have ever received in 25 years!


    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216888     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216918 ELLevation platform to look at diversifying lessons; good for planning

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216918     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216991 We do a lot of data-driven decision making. Looking at different identities within academic, discipline, etc. And driving instrution based on multiple groupings.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216991     sarahsousa10 https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216992 White Fragility

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526216992     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217013 Share-outs and presentations to share students' home culture.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217013     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217023 Trouble Makers by Carla Shalaby was a really excellent book!

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217023     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217089 I find it’s important to stop and self-reflect. If I am stressed or tired, I tend to overreact. By practicing mindfulness and taking a break from the situation, I am less likely to act on my implicit bias.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217089     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217119 AVOID RUBY PAYNE AT ALL COSTS! Her work is self-published and did not go through peer-review. It is full of offensive and harmful stereotypes about working class people. No economist or sociologist agrees with her.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217119     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217270 We Got This! by Cornelius Minor

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217270     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217320 Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain is an awesome resource.


    Professional Development.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217320     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217497 hang culturally diverse posters in the classroom


    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217497     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217589 reflect on and challenge your own beliefs!


    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217589     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217705 Mindfulness strategies to help us stop and think before reacting, for myself, but we also teach and practice these strategies with students daily

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217705     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217852 We use Talking Points. It is generated from information in Aspen.

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217852     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217913 Strategies used:

    • Celebrate diversity throughout the year (Native Americans, Women, Black History, Hispanic history, etc.)

    • Read books that include different races, cultures, genders, abilities- as read alouds

    • Around the World Holidays in December

    • Equity sticks for calling on students

    • Remember to include cultures, races, etc. that are AND are not represented in your room.


    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217913     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217983 Wheel spin of names when doing a group activity where we have to take turns.

    https://wheelofnames.com/

    ]]>     2025-07-22 17:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526217983     https://padlet.com/lgarcia598/okumchj0skq2j2sj/wish/3526218825 Remember you are NEVER neutral. You are either perpetuating dominant structures or disrupting them.

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