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Create Positive Learning Conditions to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Classroom Community | Learning Condition Guide
Students feel safe to engage and succeed in school when the classroom environment encourages a sense of community and fosters mutual support among classmates—when they experience classroom community. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to classroom community.
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Create Positive Learning Conditions to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Affirming Identities | Learning Condition Guide
Students feel more connected to and motivated in classes that recognize and affirm their backgrounds and identities—when they experience affirming identities. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to affirming identities.
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Create Positive Learning Conditions to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Teacher Caring | Learning Condition Guide
Students engage more deeply in their work when they feel like their teacher likes and cares about them—when they experience teacher caring. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to teacher caring.
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Listen to, Understand, and Respond to the Voices and Experiences of Students
The 180 Podcast: Student Voices: Fighting for an Inclusive Education System
On this episode, we hear from students – two students who are youth advocates for the National Equity Project. What do they say young people need to be successful? How do they view the education system – who do they think it is designed for, and what critical pieces do they see as missing?
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
The 180 Podcast: LaShawn Routé Chatmon and Kathleen Osta: What Is an Equitable Learning Environment and How Can Your School Build One?
We hear a lot today about the importance of creating equitable learning environments for all young people – providing each child what they need to learn, develop healthily, and thrive, which means some might need more than others depending on their starting point. From classrooms to local school board meetings, the issue – if not…
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Ensure that All Educators Feel Supported, Valued, and Prepared
Social Emotional Learning and Equity
The promise of social and emotional development as a lever for increasing educational equity rests on the capacity of educators to understand that all learning is social and emotional and all learning is mediated by relationships that sit in a sociopolitical, racialized context – for all children, not just those who are Black and brown.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Leading With Courage and Commitment: Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Schools
Over the past two decades, many school districts across the United States have engaged in some form of ‘equity work’ in an effort to change persistent racialized patterns in student experience and achievement. Communities have engaged in a wide range of efforts to increase opportunity and expand educational excellence and equity. While the impacts of…
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Listen to, Understand, and Respond to the Voices and Experiences of Students
The Schools Our Youth Demand
Students and student voices must lead our work in building equitable and liberatory schools. The Youth Liberation Symposium, an entirely youth-led virtual symposium featuring youth from across our network of 18 school districts connected to learn about the history of education liberation struggles and dive into questions around their own activist identity. The symposium culminated…