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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did you become a teacher without any discussion or awareness of equity issues and their impact on how children learn? Genuinely curious. [/quote]

They need to focus on how to teach kids how to read and write and not on equity. Everyone knows that students should be given equity of opportunity but that doesn’t mean the same results. [/quote]
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EVERYONE should focus in equity. We should all have done awareness of how we are treating people, if we are dealing with the with understanding, empathy and respect. We should understand that everyone’s circumstances and experiences are different so we should not operate on assumptions.
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Yes! And we should keep dumbing down the schools until the least capable kids can get As. That'll fix everything. [/quote]

Again, this is not what is meant by teaching for equity. I have never been asked to show all kids have As. I have been asked to explain and actively address clear patterns of one or more groups having significant underperformance compared to one group. If I have white boys all performing two levels below Asian girls on all of my assessments, why do I think that is happening? And it wasn’t always about race and ethnicity. I had a strong T pattern of calling that discouraged students on the wings or let them off the hook. Once I had to examine the data with a coach, it was glaringly evident. I got support in using several equitable calling practices and started using them. Within two weeks, engagement in the wings rose considerably. That is equitable teaching. It has nothing to do with race.[/quote]
You sound fantastic.  I wish my son had you as a teacher.  Unfortunately equitable teaching almost always means race. And because teachers are not in control of the biggest predictor of academic success (home life) there's only so much you can do.  Woke lunatics are pushing for the dumbing down of the curriculum, getting rid of testing, etc. to close an unclosabe achievement gap. [/quote]

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