{"id":4660,"date":"2017-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/catalyzing-equity-through-culturally-responsive-education-and-competency-based-education\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:03:30","slug":"catalyzing-equity-through-culturally-responsive-education-and-competency-based-education","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/catalyzing-equity-through-culturally-responsive-education-and-competency-based-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyzing Equity Through Culturally Responsive Education and Competency-Based Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Right now race has enormous cultural, social, and economic power. It can shape our families and communities, career trajectories, life experiences and opportunities, and even whether we live past thirty or not. So our job in the field of education is to identify each and every place where race is making a difference in children\u2019s lives because of either systemic policies and patterns or because of implicit and explicit bias. It starts with ensuring that our schools have a culture of belonging. As Joy Nolan from the Mastery Collaborative emphasizes,\u00a0<\/span>Every student should walk into school feeling like their school is for them, designed for them, serving them, and for people “like them.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The team at Mastery Collaborative in NYC have identified that the practices of <\/span>culturally responsive education<\/span><\/a> go hand-in-hand with the mastery-based learning practices. They have created a very simple resource (see below or <\/span>click here<\/span><\/a>) to allow educators or, better yet, teams of educators (it is very hard to identify implicit bias if it is just a conversation between you and yourself \u2013 you need trusted colleagues to help you see where you might have blinders or filters that are creating trouble) to think about their facilitation, curriculum, and grading practices. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mastery Collaborative Resources on Culturally Responsive Education<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Infusing CRE into Mastery Practices<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How Can Mastery Learning be More Culturally Responsive<\/span><\/a> (video)<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I learn about culturally responsive education, the more I think it is important that the leaders in the world of personalized learning do the crosswalk as well. There are so many practices that are valuable in culturally responsive education that are either the same or similar enough to make personalized learning become a catalyst for racial equity. But that won\u2019t happen unless there is the intention of doing so. Without intention to change, we end up perpetuating inequality. <\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have tools, resources, or strategies that are helping you and your school to strengthen your culture and practices so that you are truly an equitable school where every student is going to succeed regardless of race? Or a story about how competency-based education and its focus on continuous improvement is helping your school or district improve educational services and outcomes for historically underserved students? Please share. \u00a0As a community, I am confident that we can not only commit to equity. We can make a difference in children\u2019s lives for the better. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Infusing CRE\/Mastery practices into our work with young learners<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Exploration<\/b><\/p>\n