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Using Equity Audits in the Classroom to Reach and Teach All Students

First Edition
  • Kathryn Bell McKenzie - Texas A&M University, College Station & California State University, Stanislaus - Professor Emerita
  • Linda Skrla - Texas A&M University, USA

Foreword by Christine Sleeter



September 2011 | 128 pages | Corwin
This is the follow-up book to the Corwin "best seller" Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools. Whereas Using Equity Audits was written mainly for school leaders, this book, Equity Audits for Teachers: Creating Equitable and Excellent Classrooms, focuses on teacher and classroom practices. Although school leaders have found the Equity Audits book useful, they have requested more strategies for teachers. They want a companion book they can give teachers and use in teacher study groups.

This book is important because in this time of changing demographics and increased diversity, many teachers find that the strategies they have used in the past are successful with only some of the students in their classes. They want and need strategies that will assist them in being successful with all their students. This book will provide teachers with new strategies and skills that will fit diverse needs.

The book will also include a discussion of the history of equity auditing in education found in civil rights work, curriculum auditing, and state accountability systems.

 
Foreword
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
1. Introduction
A Brief Overview of Our Work on Equity Audits

 
Previews of Chapters 2-9

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
 
Section I. Conceptual and Historical Frameworks
 
2. Equitable and Excellent Teaching
Equity Consciousness Preassessment

 
Equity Consciousness Defined

 
Research on Equity Consciousness

 
Research on High-Quality Teaching Skills

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
3. Qualities of Equitable and Excellent Classrooms
An Example of an Equitable and Excellent School: Tice Elementary

 
Classroom Equity Assessment

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
4. Auditing for Equity and Excellence
Equity Audits in International Settings

 
Equity Audits in U.S. Education

 
Refining Equity Audits Into a Usable Tool

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
Section II. Equity Auditing in the Classroom
 
5. Auditing for Teaching and Learning
Active Cognitive Engagement

 
What Our Critics Might Say

 
Zone of Self-Efficacy

 
An Auditing Tool: Teaching and Learning Tours

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
6. Auditing for Discipline
Research on Discipline

 
Reasons for Discipline Disproportionality

 
Auditing Tools for Examining Classroom Disciplinary Practices

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
7. Auditing for Parental Involvement
What Research Says About Parental Involvement

 
Classroom Parental Involvement Inventory

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
8. Auditing for Programmatic Equity
Advanced Placement

 
Gifted and Talented Programs

 
Special Education

 
Chapter Conclusion

 
Discussion Questions and Activities

 
 
9. Conclusion
 
References
 
Index

"Equity audits are critical to improving the services we provide in today's diverse classroom. It is crucial that teachers and administrators see the inequities in the system and establish the protocols necessary to level the field." 

Maria J. Carrillo, Science Teacher
Health and Science High School, Beaverton, OR

“It is essential, but woefully insufficient, to desire excellence and equity. We need detailed, evidence-based, practical maps and guides.  This powerful, useful book will chart our path beyond current inequities toward the assurance of quality teaching and learning for all.”

Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Executive Director
National Center for Urban School Transformation

Equity is a main focus of the class.

Dr Leslie Locke
Educational Leadership and School Counseling, University of Southern Mississippi
August 3, 2013

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1 - Introduciton

Chapter 2


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ISBN: 9781412986779
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