Equity in Student-Centered Learning Design

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Guide • January 2022

This guide is designed to help your team design learning that equitably honors the unique assets and needs of your students.

It provides tips, stand-out examples, and discussion questions to work through with your team, for each of our seven principles of student-centered learning.

This guide draws wisdom from 11 brilliant educators who shared from their experiences designing student-centered environments for equity. Meet the fellows.

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Supporting Resources

Books

 

Beyond the Bake Sale The Essential Guide to Family/School Partnerships

 


 

Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change

 


 

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

 


 

Culturally Responsive School Leadership

 


 

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

 


 

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

 


 

Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

 


 

Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School

 


 

Excellence Through Equity

 


 

The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible

 


 

Killing Rage: Ending Racism

 


 

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

 


 

The Long Haul: An Autobiography

 


 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

 


 

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

 


 

Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators

 


 

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

 


 

Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success

 


 

Skin Again

 


 

Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

 


 

This Is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education

 


 

Walking the Equity Talk: A Guide for Culturally Courageous Leadership in School Communities

 


 

Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom

 


 

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

 

Films

 

10 Principles of Educational Equity

 


 

13th

 


 

Charlottesville: Rage and Terror

 


 

Love Them First

 


 

Precious Knowledge

 


 

Race: The Power of Illusion

 

Positive Relationships

 

Capture the Opportunity Workbooks

 


 

Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching All Students Equitably

 


 

Education Liberation Network

 


 

Evidence for Student-Centered Learning

 

Foundational Needs Met

 

The Equity Rubric

 


 

The Hope Survey

 


 

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

 


 

A Resource Guide On Counselors Not Cops – Dignity In Schools Resource Guide

 


 

Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package

 


 

When Schools Cause Trauma

 

Positive Identity

 

The Anti-Racists Guide to New School Hires

 


 

Building for Equity: A Guide for Inclusive School Redesign

 


 

An Evolutionary Roadmap for Belonging and Co-Liberation

 


 

Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life

 


 

Hmong Language Resource Hub

 


 

How Gender Disparities Affect Classroom Learning

 


 

Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators

 


 

Learner Identity and Agency Guidebook

 


 

Lessons From Home

 


 

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

 


 

Radically Inclusive Teaching with Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students: Braving Up

 

Student Ownership and Agency

 

21st Century Learners as Activists

 


 

Maximizing Student Agency: Implementing and Measuring Student-Centered Learning Practices

 


 

The Power of Student Choice in Remote Learning

 


 

These Florida Tech Team Teens Are Now the Genius Bar for Their Middle School’s Teachers and Students During Remote Learning

 


 

YPAR Youth Participatory Action Research

 

Real-world Relevance

 

Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

 

Competency-Based

 

Competency-Based Education Network

 


 

Competency Based Education Toolkit by Education Elements and Digital Promise

 


 

Framework for Proficiency Based Learning

 


 

In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Competency-Based Education

 


 

Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea

 

Anytime, Anywhere

 

Community Schools Playbook: Expanded and Enriched Learning Time and Opportunities

 


 

Leaving to Learn: How Out-Of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates

 


 

Principles of Effective Expanded Learning Programs: A Vision Built on the Afterschool Approach