Equity Frameworks
"Our beliefs shape our actions" -anonymous
The following frameworks have provided me with valuable lenses with which I have used to understand my role as a math educator, and they are the foundation that my You-do We-do Me/I-do instructional model is built upon.
Growth Mindset
"I am often asked whether I am saying that everyone is born with the same brain. I am not. What I am saying is that any brain differences children are born with are nowhere near as important as the brain growth experiences they have throughout life... scientists now know that any brain differences present at birth are eclipsed by the learning experiences we have from birth onward." (Boaler, 5)
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Equity Literacy
"A commitment to equity is a commitment to justice, to a fair distribution of access and opportunity. Equality, often wrongly used interchangeably with equity, refers to sameness, to an equal distribution of access and opportunity. Not all equity is created equally, and vice versa." (Gorski, 19)
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Freirean Pedagogy
"Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the "banking" concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits... Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the ideology of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry. Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept." (Freire, 72-79)
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