Inclusive Resources
Educators are aware of and responsive to the ways that students are marginalized by our current education system and educators’ and students’ explicit and implicit bias (positive and negative).
Videos
Dreaming of Effective Practice
Sharon (an educator) experiences the challenges of improving access and retention outcomes for underrepresented students in Career and Technical Education due to a lack of interest and engagement by her colleagues. The good news is her experiences are all just part of a bad dream. Her school’s team are all deeply engaged, committed, and working hard to make sure all students experience access, equity, and inclusion in CTE.
Lamar Watson and his friends are high school students at a Career and Technical Center (CTC) in the Cosmetology program. Growing up, they had a wonderful experience at the community barber shop, and as a result, they were excited to enter the CCTC cosmetology program on a pathway to become owners of their own full-service barber shop. But the gender, racial, and economic biases and bullying from other students have created tension and frustration among the boys with the teacher, the program and the school. Making the video is the last, best effort by Lamar to create change. Will the teacher and the school community listen?
Barriers to Learning
Building Effective Learning Environments: Inclusive
What does creating an inclusive environment look and feel like? This video summarizes the previous NEIR indicators (normalize and empower) and introduces the concept of a deep welcome. Deep welcome is the experience students and educators feel when they are in their classroom feeling safe, comfortable, included, and loved. But how do you create that experience?
Shared Effective Practices
Observing Inclusive Environments:
Vex Unified Robotics
From problem-solving under pressure to cheering each other on, this event was all about innovation, inclusion, and epic robot moves!
Suggested Sites
The following websites support STEM/CTE administrators, faculty/teachers, and counselors (educators) in serving their students. They provide tools and resources for educators at low or no cost and have been vetted for quality by education practitioners on behalf of the SEI.
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