Sonya Murray and Gwen Turner offer a comprehensive, culturally affirming, whole-child approach to accelerating learning that connects theory and practice vividly, with passion and compassion. This book is a must-read for educators and parents who are determined to support children’s lives and learning so that they not only survive, but truly thrive.
This book presents an excellent step-by-step approach to a difficult concept and a clever, logical, go-to approach to integrating educational equity into teaching and student/family interaction. The use of scenarios helps teachers to relate to the discussions and approaches quickly. The format is accessible for an overworked teacher to pick up and implement quickly. With its many references and graphics, it will open new doors for those teachers who ‘knew’ that something was missing in reaching all their students.
Serving Educational Equity supports educators challenged by disrupted student learning. This timely new book guides educators on their journey for educational equity. Murray and Turner successfully developed an accessible resource for teachers, instructional leaders, and coaches established on evidence-based research centered on equity-focused practices. Serving Educational Equity offers readers the tools and strategies for educator self-reflection needed for them to develop the mindset to ensure that all students can learn and achieve.
Serving Educational Equity is the book teachers have been looking for. It synthesizes all the best practices that are applicable to current teaching and learning while providing manageable explanations and connections across what may have been incorrectly perceived as unrelated concepts. Get ready to have all the dots connect!
The book provides a ton of practical visuals and tools that leadership teams can use in their schools… a great guide for meaningful discussion and professional growth.
This book would be an excellent choice as the foundation for a collaborative book study designed to strengthen teams of educators.
This book is a must-read for educators! In fact, it is one of the best education books I have ever read! The topic of unfinished learning through acceleration will provide you with the needed support for student success. Each phase includes valuable vignettes, many resources, and much more.
Serving Educational Equity is essential reading for school personnel. The authors provide the strategies, research, tools and resources, based on their incredible experiences, to address the old chestnut—lost learning and student achievement. This will become your new school handbook!
Students and educators have been through some difficult times these past few years, which has given us an opportunity for educators to take a renewed look at their practice. This book provides the reader with a fresh perspective for rejuvenation.
The book is highly comprehensive in covering the various aspects of teaching and learning that impact on equity and inclusion… It’s the kind of book you will come back to over and over again, getting different insights as you go through the questions at different times in your life.