7 Lenses for Instructional Equity

Reflection Tool 7 Lenses of Instructional Equity Reflections Collector.pdf

Self Assessment

To what extent do you:

consider the lenses for instructional equity as you plan your classroom instruction and structures to create an equitable learning environment?
learn about each student to know what each needs to be seen and successful in their learning environment?

Exploration of the 7 Lenses of Instructional Equity

Use the document below to guide your thinking as you explore the resources for considering your learning environment through the 7 Lenses for Instructional Equity.

Opportunity

Read Opportunity and Access in Your Learning Environment.
Watch the Unequal Opportunity Race and respond to the questions in your Efficacy Notebook.

Access

Review Designing Equitable Learning Environments: The Technology Lens - In a student-driven learning environment, teachers should design differentiated opportunities for students to learn content. Within that design comes the integration of technology use. When we think about equitable access to learning, we should consider how technology can enhance this for each of our students.

Representation

Review Representation in Your Learning Environment - This equity-focused tool is to be used for reflection on the instructional resources in your learning environment. Use this resource to reflect on the resources used in your class to ensure they are free of biases and representative of diverse cultures.
Watch The Danger of a Single Story (20 min.) - In this Ted Talk, novelist and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains the misunderstandings that can happen when we look at people and places through the lens of a single story.

Empowerment

Watch and reflect on Empowering Students Through Cultural Pluralism - This resource is from ETeachNY, a site that IDE Corp. consultants collaborated on with the New York State Department of Education. The resource will teach you about cultural pluralism and strategies you can implement for student achievement. Consider the STOP and THINK questions for your own reflections and discussions.

Relationships

Review Designing Equitable Learning Environments: Getting to Know Your Class - Use this reflection tool to reflect on the design of your equitable learning environment.
Watch CR-SE Family Engagement Strategies (also from the site which IDE Corp. collaborated with the New York State Department of Education) and then respond to the STOP and THINK questions.

Authenticity

Anchoring the Learning - Read about the 6 Ps of PBL that help anchor students in authentic learning experiences.
Cultural Distance Calculator - Use this cultural distance calculator to help you assess the similarities and differences between you and your students. What implications do your results have on the authentic experiences you provide for students in the classroom?

Cultural Responsiveness

Watch Supporting Schoolwide Culturally Responsive Practices and add your brainstorming and responses to questions in your Efficacy Notebook.
Read and reflect on the article Embracing Cultural Pluralism.

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