Tracy Williams-Shreve
Instructional Leader
Equitable and Inclusive Schools
Cristina Guerrero
Instructional Leader
Secondary Equity
Following are the links to resources used or shown in the workshop session as well as additional related resources…
The full version of the Power Point Presentation from the morning session may be found on the Teacher Share Drive. Follow this path:
- ESA Desktop folder > Teacher Share > Library @ ESA > Professional Development
TED Talk: Colour Blink or Colour Brave
- http://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hobson_color_blind_or_color_brave?language=en
- deal with discomfort and be comfortable with it
James Banks Continuum
- http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/edactivism/Activist_Planning_Tools/Model_for_Inclusive_Curriculum.html
- Recommend you read Wade Davis (as do I, we have number of his works in the ESA Collection)
Opportunity Gap vs Achievement Gap
- in some way the system has failed and not provided opportunities they should have had
- functional magnetic resonance imaging…
- Dr. Josh Aronson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahN-dSh_lTc
- long video but highly recommends that worth watching in entirety
- a lot comes from “Deficit thinking”… http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/990
- So poverty plays out in many ways and has many impacts… structural inequities… not as blatant as they used to be but they are still there
Mindset profiles
- Carole Dweck… http://mindsetonline.com/
- Mindset Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvR_0mNpWM
- Brainology… Take the Mindset Survey: http://community.mindsetworks.com/my-mindset?force=1
Polygeny
Interesting: Article about scientific debate around the issue
http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-museum-skull-collection
Kids video on neuroplasticity
- The Sci Schow: Your Brain is Plastic
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLPxDtMqe8
Also worth checking out…
- from the Sentis Brain Animation Series… video on Neuroplasticity
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpfYCZa87g
- The Brain That Changes Itself
- Norman Doidge
- Full length video featuring Doidge on Neuroplasticity from TVO Big Ideas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z1nLJNqpLk
- Also doc feature on The Nature of Things
- http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/the-brain-that-changes-itself
- Full documentary (2 episodes) available for streaming on your CBC Curio account
- See also TedX Talk: The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, Barbara Arrowsmith Young
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0td5aw1KXA
The Social Brain
- See also a TedX Talk by Matthew Lieberman PhD
- The Social Brain and its Superpowers
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhk3owF7RQ
Social Identity
- The Power Flower: Lesson Plan and Activities
- http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/edactivism/Activist_Resources/The_Power_Flower.html
- The flower itself: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/edactivism/UserFiles/Image/powerflower2.JPG
Identity/Stereotype Threat
- Search AP Source Database… available through the ESA Virtual LIbrary
- ESA Virtual Library > Our Online Resources > Advanced Placement Source
- Login credentials for home access: Available on the Virtual Library Learnmark (or on the Teacher Share in the folder Library@ESA)
- Search “Identity Stereotype Threat”…
Additional Interesting Resources
- OISE Educational Activism: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/edactivism/index.html
- (some of what is above comes from inside this site)
BOOK I will be purchasing for the Professional Collection in the Library
- Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process and Evaluation
- contains lots of easy to implement strategies to make it safer for kids in the classroom
- http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/stereotype-threat-theory-process-and/9780199732449-item.html?ikwid=stereotype+threat+and&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0