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This exploratory study occurred in Title 1 schools located within a large urban area. The sample included 23 general educators and 551 students in second through fifth grade, with 57 students identified as at risk for an emotional or behavioral disorder. The purpose of this study was to determine (a) to what extent general education teachers used evidence-based practices—specifically, opportunities to respond, positive specific feedback, and precorrections—during classroom instruction, and (b) if those practices occurred at different rates across demographic groups (i.e., race and disability risk). The results indicated that teachers used higher rates of opportunities to respond and positive specific feedback with students not at risk compared with at-risk students. We did not find main effects of race or race-by-disability risk interaction effects. These findings support the need to continue examining teachers’ differing uses of evidence-based practices.
Green, A. L., Lewis, T. J., & Olsen, A. A. (2020). General Education Teachers’ Use of Evidence-Based Practices: Examining the Role of Student Race and Risk Status. Behavioral Disorders, 45(3), 183–192
This paper provides readers with clear, current data on widespread inequity in discipline as it pertains to African American males in California’s schools.
Wood, J. Luke, Harris III, Frank , Howard, Tyrone C.. 2018. “Get Out! Black Male Suspensions in California Public Schools.” San Diego, CA. Community College Equity Assessment Lab and the UCLA Black Male Institute.
Provides an overview of this New York University self-assessment tool.
Training Module 1: Overview of Metropolitan Center for Urban Education’s Disproportionality Workbooks
Training Module 2: Using the Data Analysis Workbook
Training Module 3: Knowing A Disproportionality Problem Based On Numbers
Training Module 4: Using the Equity in Education Workbook
Training Module 5: Discussing Culturally Responsive Education Beliefs
Training Module 6: Common Causes of Disproportionality in Special Education and Suspension
Edward Fergus, presenter (2010) State Performance Plan Technical Assistance Project, California Department of Education.
The San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) built a website full of resources to celebrate and honor the culture, history, and contributions of Hispanic Americans. In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
San Diego County Office of Education, (2021).
Maynard and Weinstein use this text to encourage educators to create school cultures that rely on relationships, empathy, communication and restoration in place of punishment and exclusion.
Maynard, Nathan, and Weinstein, Brad. 2019. Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice. Highland Heights, OH: Times 10 Publications.
In 1968, a bipartisan commission was created and tasked with holding hearings, studying, and reporting out on the racial division that had caused riots in cities across America. Their charge was to identify what happened, why, and how to prevent its reoccurrence. That commission determined that while population migration was the change that took place, institutionalized white racism caused the uprisings. Extensive social systems change was required to eradicate the division. The 2018 volume investigates the myriad of structures that make up contemporary life in America and identifies how those structures continue to differ based on race and ethnicity. It is intentionally written to return the issues to the public forefront and to call citizens to action.
Harris, Fred and Curtis, Alan. 2018. Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
This text, published by the Council for Exceptional Children, provides educators with specific high-leverage practices, HLPs, separated into four themes. These are collaboration, assessment, social-emotional and behavioral practices, and instruction. As special education HLPs are consistent with best practices in education, the book is available as a resource to all education professionals.
McLeskey, J. 2017. High-Leverage Practices in Special Education. Arlington, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.
In contrast to the medical model of trauma informed practice, Ginwright provides educators with a paradigm of urban education that includes celebration and understanding of community, culture, resilience, and healing.
Ginwright, Shawn. 2016. Hope and Healing in Urban Education: How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart. New York: Rouledge.
Experts attribute the lack of Black K-12 teachers in California to a number of barriers, including underrepresentation in teacher credentialing programs, as well as workplace discrimination that prompts some to leave the profession.
Tadayon, A. "How California Districts Seek to Recruit, Retain Black Teachers Amid Shortage." Edsource, (2022).
This study examines a set of seven “positive outlier” districts in California in which students across racial/ethnic groups are consistently outperforming students of similar racial/ethnic backgrounds from families of similar income and education levels in most other California districts. In addition, these districts are achieving more equitable opportunities and outcomes across a range of measures. This cross-case study consolidates lessons learned from these seven districts in California during the early implementation of new standards in California.
Burns, Dion, Linda Darling-Hammond, Caitlin Scott. 2020. How positive outlier districts create a strong and stable teaching force (research brief). Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/media/463/download?inline&file=Positive_Outlier_Districts_Strong_Stable_Teachers_BRIEF.pdf (accessed January 30, 2023).
