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These books don’t “[consider] that the people reading them might themselves be disabled” or “that the perspective of an actual disabled person might differ from what a non-disabled author offers,” Duyvis said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at University of Wisconsin-Madison has analyzed the diversity of about 18,000 children’s books published in the U.S. between 2018 and 2022. Of the 975 books that had a disability theme or featured a significant character with a disability, 27% were by creators who publicly identified as disabled.*\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To counter this imbalance, Duyvis recommended that educators, librarians and parents seek out books by disabled people. Duyvis and two librarians talked with MindShift about what else educators and caregivers should look for when selecting children’s literature that represents disability and what conversations with kids about these books and about disabilities can look like. They also offered recommendations of inclusive, affirming books for kids from preschool to high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Highlighting inclusivity and diversity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often, when disability has been shown in the pages of children’s books, it has been through the experiences of white or male characters, according to Elizabeth Perez, a librarian at San Francisco Public Library’s Children’s Center. But Perez said that there is always room for more books from other perspectives. For example, she would love to see more disability representation in non-English language and bilingual kids’ literature. When publishers only elect to translate best sellers they “perpetuate a lack of inclusivity in publishing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21469042\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cari Best and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59811241\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song In the City\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Daniel Bernstrom and Jenin Mohammed, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55333940\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bodies Are Cool\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Tyler Feder\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52376197-built-for-speed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built For Speed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Vicky Fang\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20578939\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kinda Like Brothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Coe Booth, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12352685\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wild Book\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Margarita Engle\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35120779-unbroken\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Countering misinformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in kids’ literature can also educate readers about what living with a disability might look like or mean. These books help to counter misinformation, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/juliaerin80\">Julia Torres\u003c/a>, a librarian, educator and activist. Educators should steer away from “disability warrior” and “trauma warrior” tropes, said Perez. Although trauma might be part of someone’s experience with a disability, Torres said, “We can center a type of children’s literature where the disability is a part of a person’s lived experience and identity, just as a cultural or ethnic or linguistic identity is part of the human experience.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52888945-sam-s-super-seats\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam’s Super Seats\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Keah Brown and Sharee Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926958-a-to-z-animal-mysteries-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A-Z Animal Mystery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kayla Whaley\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55503534-rolling-warrior\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story Of A Rebel Girl On Wheels Who Helped Spark A Revolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56905114-disability-visibility-adapted-for-young-adults\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Alice Wong\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disability representation in fantasy books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Perez, the fantasy genre is particularly lacking in disability representation. “People of all abilities can exist in any fantasy. We exist in real life. Why not in the fantasy world?” she asked. Duyvis pointed to her own novel, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40392203-the-art-of-saving-the-world\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Saving the World\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about a girl with an anxiety disorder who explores who she is through alternate universes, as an example of disability representation in fantasy. Another of Duyvis’ books, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the Edge of Gone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is about an autistic girl who must prove herself worthy of securing a seat on the last generation ship to leave an apocalyptic earth. Just because the character is autistic “Does that make her any less worthy of survival?” Duyvis asked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36595887\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sal and Gabi Break the Universe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carlos Hernandez, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60343786-my-aunt-is-a-monster\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Aunt is a Monster\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Reimena Yee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/series/264227-tea-dragon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tea Dragon series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kay O’Neill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17349055\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real Boy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By Anne Ursu\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51135826\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oracle Code\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Appreciating different experiences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in children’s literature is for everybody. “Whether you’re disabled or not, you can appreciate a book with a character who is or is not disabled,” said Duyvis. A reader who is disabled might read a book with disability representation and recognize themselves, while a non-disabled reader might recognize disability as “a little more normal,” she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can foster \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">affirming and enriching conversations\u003c/a> surrounding disability representation in children’s literature by asking: “What do you think of how other people in the book are reacting to the character?” If students are reading a book that includes an autistic character, the educator might ask them to think about what a singular character represents and explain that it “doesn’t necessarily mean that this is what any or all autistic people are actually like,” said Duyvis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students are encounter books that don’t represent disability in an inclusive or affirming way, Duyvis encouraged educators to promote critical thinking by having students ask themselves, “Can I necessarily trust what I read to be true?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres recommended avoiding language like, “How did the person survive or thrive despite their disability?” Framing a disabled person’s existence “in spite” of their disability, can suggest that the person’s disability takes away from the value of their life. Torres said it might be helpful to ask these questions using affirming language instead:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What did you learn about living with this particular disability?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are some misconceptions that you have unlearned?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were to uplift things about the character what would those be?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students have discussions about differences or disability representation in children’s literature, Perez likes to use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">“mirrors and windows” approach\u003c/a>. Students should see themselves, the mirror, but should also see others represented in what they read, the window. This can help to eliminate isolation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having these discussions in the classroom is not about garnering sympathy, said Torres. Rather, “it would feel beautiful not to have to explain.” Being open minded is the crux of disability inclusion and representation in kids’ literature. “Don’t limit an audience based on who the main character is,” said Duyvis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57094674\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My City Speaks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60444469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Christina Soontornvat and Dow Phumiruk, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58556601\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Shannon Stocker\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20912424\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The War That Saved My Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26201816-el-deafo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Deafo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cece Bell\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33803157\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Kelly Jensen\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Editor’s note: Independent analysis of data accessed on July 14, 2023 by KQED MindShift using the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Statistics Book Search\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CCBC researches whether the creator of a book identifies as disabled if a book contains disabled characters or disability themes; it does not collect this data for all books it receives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Corrine Duyvis, Julia Torres and Elizabeth Perez recommend children's books with affirming disability representation and advice for how to discuss these books with students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691442906,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1259},"headData":{"title":"Choosing children's books that include and affirm disability experiences | KQED","description":"Find recommendations for children's books with disability representation and advice for discussing such books with students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Find recommendations for children's books with disability representation and advice for discussing such books with students.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Choosing children's books that include and affirm disability experiences","datePublished":"2023-07-25T01:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-07T21:15:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/62049/choosing-childrens-books-that-include-and-affirm-disability-experiences","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to disability representation in children’s literature, historically, books have been authored by non-disabled people and for non-disabled people, according to award-winning author \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/corinneduyvis\">Corinne Duyvis\u003c/a>. These books don’t “[consider] that the people reading them might themselves be disabled” or “that the perspective of an actual disabled person might differ from what a non-disabled author offers,” Duyvis said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at University of Wisconsin-Madison has analyzed the diversity of about 18,000 children’s books published in the U.S. between 2018 and 2022. Of the 975 books that had a disability theme or featured a significant character with a disability, 27% were by creators who publicly identified as disabled.*\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To counter this imbalance, Duyvis recommended that educators, librarians and parents seek out books by disabled people. Duyvis and two librarians talked with MindShift about what else educators and caregivers should look for when selecting children’s literature that represents disability and what conversations with kids about these books and about disabilities can look like. They also offered recommendations of inclusive, affirming books for kids from preschool to high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Highlighting inclusivity and diversity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often, when disability has been shown in the pages of children’s books, it has been through the experiences of white or male characters, according to Elizabeth Perez, a librarian at San Francisco Public Library’s Children’s Center. But Perez said that there is always room for more books from other perspectives. For example, she would love to see more disability representation in non-English language and bilingual kids’ literature. When publishers only elect to translate best sellers they “perpetuate a lack of inclusivity in publishing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21469042\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cari Best and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59811241\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song In the City\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Daniel Bernstrom and Jenin Mohammed, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55333940\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bodies Are Cool\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Tyler Feder\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52376197-built-for-speed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built For Speed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Vicky Fang\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20578939\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kinda Like Brothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Coe Booth, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12352685\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wild Book\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Margarita Engle\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35120779-unbroken\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Countering misinformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in kids’ literature can also educate readers about what living with a disability might look like or mean. These books help to counter misinformation, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/juliaerin80\">Julia Torres\u003c/a>, a librarian, educator and activist. Educators should steer away from “disability warrior” and “trauma warrior” tropes, said Perez. Although trauma might be part of someone’s experience with a disability, Torres said, “We can center a type of children’s literature where the disability is a part of a person’s lived experience and identity, just as a cultural or ethnic or linguistic identity is part of the human experience.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52888945-sam-s-super-seats\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam’s Super Seats\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Keah Brown and Sharee Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926958-a-to-z-animal-mysteries-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A-Z Animal Mystery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kayla Whaley\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55503534-rolling-warrior\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story Of A Rebel Girl On Wheels Who Helped Spark A Revolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56905114-disability-visibility-adapted-for-young-adults\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Alice Wong\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disability representation in fantasy books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Perez, the fantasy genre is particularly lacking in disability representation. “People of all abilities can exist in any fantasy. We exist in real life. Why not in the fantasy world?” she asked. Duyvis pointed to her own novel, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40392203-the-art-of-saving-the-world\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Saving the World\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about a girl with an anxiety disorder who explores who she is through alternate universes, as an example of disability representation in fantasy. Another of Duyvis’ books, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the Edge of Gone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is about an autistic girl who must prove herself worthy of securing a seat on the last generation ship to leave an apocalyptic earth. Just because the character is autistic “Does that make her any less worthy of survival?” Duyvis asked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36595887\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sal and Gabi Break the Universe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carlos Hernandez, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60343786-my-aunt-is-a-monster\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Aunt is a Monster\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Reimena Yee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/series/264227-tea-dragon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tea Dragon series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kay O’Neill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17349055\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real Boy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By Anne Ursu\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51135826\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oracle Code\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Appreciating different experiences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in children’s literature is for everybody. “Whether you’re disabled or not, you can appreciate a book with a character who is or is not disabled,” said Duyvis. A reader who is disabled might read a book with disability representation and recognize themselves, while a non-disabled reader might recognize disability as “a little more normal,” she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can foster \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">affirming and enriching conversations\u003c/a> surrounding disability representation in children’s literature by asking: “What do you think of how other people in the book are reacting to the character?” If students are reading a book that includes an autistic character, the educator might ask them to think about what a singular character represents and explain that it “doesn’t necessarily mean that this is what any or all autistic people are actually like,” said Duyvis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students are encounter books that don’t represent disability in an inclusive or affirming way, Duyvis encouraged educators to promote critical thinking by having students ask themselves, “Can I necessarily trust what I read to be true?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres recommended avoiding language like, “How did the person survive or thrive despite their disability?” Framing a disabled person’s existence “in spite” of their disability, can suggest that the person’s disability takes away from the value of their life. Torres said it might be helpful to ask these questions using affirming language instead:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What did you learn about living with this particular disability?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are some misconceptions that you have unlearned?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were to uplift things about the character what would those be?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students have discussions about differences or disability representation in children’s literature, Perez likes to use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">“mirrors and windows” approach\u003c/a>. Students should see themselves, the mirror, but should also see others represented in what they read, the window. This can help to eliminate isolation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having these discussions in the classroom is not about garnering sympathy, said Torres. Rather, “it would feel beautiful not to have to explain.” Being open minded is the crux of disability inclusion and representation in kids’ literature. “Don’t limit an audience based on who the main character is,” said Duyvis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57094674\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My City Speaks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60444469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Christina Soontornvat and Dow Phumiruk, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58556601\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Shannon Stocker\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20912424\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The War That Saved My Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26201816-el-deafo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Deafo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cece Bell\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33803157\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Kelly Jensen\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Editor’s note: Independent analysis of data accessed on July 14, 2023 by KQED MindShift using the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Statistics Book Search\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CCBC researches whether the creator of a book identifies as disabled if a book contains disabled characters or disability themes; it does not collect this data for all books it receives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62049/choosing-childrens-books-that-include-and-affirm-disability-experiences","authors":["11759"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20997","mindshift_21722","mindshift_21717","mindshift_21718","mindshift_20610","mindshift_21719","mindshift_21721","mindshift_21720","mindshift_21423","mindshift_550","mindshift_21397","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_62054","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61929":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61929","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61929","score":null,"sort":[1688053200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","title":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer","publishDate":1688053200,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s top colleges are likely to enroll fewer Black, Latino, and Native American students after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to use affirmative action to create more racially diverse campuses, and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing for the majority\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts said that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions programs had violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars discrimination, because they “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bar will make it exceedingly difficult for colleges and universities to consider race as part of their admissions process going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts’ majority opinion did leave open a small window for how colleges could consider race in admissions. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” the chief justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described this as a meaningless concession — “nothing but an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court’s opinion circumscribes universities’ ability to consider race in any form by meticulously gutting respondents’ asserted diversity interests,” wrote Sotomayor. “Yet, because the Court cannot escape the inevitable truth that race matters in students’ lives, it announces a false promise to save face and appear attuned to reality. No one is fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states — including California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/affirmative-action-ban-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already ban affirmative action\u003c/a> at public colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision stems from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1199.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two\u003c/a> \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases\u003c/a> that were brought before the court by Students for Fair Admissions, an organization headed by Edward Blum, who has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent years fighting affirmative action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina over their race-conscious admissions policies, arguing that they were unfair and discriminatory. The group alleged that Harvard’s policies, in particular, discriminated against Asian American applicants. The universities countered that they needed to take race into account to build a diverse student body, which brings educational benefits to the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision has big implications for students looking to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, which are more likely to consider race as a factor in admissions. But the ruling likely will have little effect on the vast majority of college students who attend less selective schools, such as community colleges, which accept most students who apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three major ways the ruling is likely to affect students who are applying to college:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black, Latino, and Native students will be less likely to get into top colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at several selective colleges have said they expect the numbers of Black and Latino students, in particular, to decline if colleges are essentially no longer permitted to consider student race as part of a holistic admissions review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expert working on behalf of Harvard, for example, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/169941/20210225095533757_Students%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that getting rid of race-conscious admissions would cause Black enrollment in Harvard’s freshman class to fall from 14% to 6%, and Hispanic enrollment to drop from 14% to 9%. White and Asian American enrollment, meanwhile, would grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from states that previously banned affirmative action also provide a look at what may happen nationwide. After California and Michigan got rid of affirmative action, the share of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students at several of the most selective colleges fell sharply. Those figures tended to tick back up with time, but never fully rebounded — and they still fail to represent the racial diversity of high school graduates in those states, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Boston Globe reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When colleges become less racially diverse, students of color often feel the schools are less welcoming — which could further depress the number of Black and Latino students on campus. That matters because Black and Latino students are \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/upshot/elite-colleges-actual-value.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to benefit\u003c/a> from the social capital that comes from attending a top college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges in states that axed affirmative action have tried alternatives to create racially diverse classes. That includes accepting a certain percentage of top high school graduates, recruiting from high schools that enroll large shares of underrepresented students, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/richard-kahlenberg-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving preference to students from low-income families\u003c/a>. But \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/diversity-without-race/#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> and many college officials say those methods don’t work as well as explicitly taking race into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no race-neutral alternative to being able to consider race,” Femi Ogundele, an official at the University of California, Berkeley, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/california-banned-affirmative-action-uc-struggles-for-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Los Angeles Times recently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, colleges may not want to take new steps to ensure racial diversity for fear of violating the Supreme Court’s latest ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people imagine that we’ll find creative ways of working around the court’s decision, like using an applicant’s ZIP code as a stand-in for their race. But we won’t,” \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/columbia-president-lee-c-bollinger-looks-back-two-remarkable-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Lee Bollinger\u003c/a>, the outgoing president of Columbia University who was a defendant in a previous \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark Supreme Court case\u003c/a> that upheld affirmative action. “We can’t knowingly violate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. We’ll have to abide by it, no matter how painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"HuI6WT\">Students, and their school counselors, will have to navigate a new college admissions terrain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s ruling will have the biggest effects on high-achieving high schoolers who are applying to highly selective colleges, as those institutions are more likely to use race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of colleges considered race in admissions to some degree, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nacacnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/soca2019_all.pdf?_ga=2.43022893.905831718.1682630032-703981455.1682630031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 survey\u003c/a> from the National Association for College Admission Counseling that was cited in the court case. But 60% of the most selective colleges — those that accept 4 in 10 applicants or less — considered an applicant’s race, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Race-Class-and-College-Access-Achieving-Diversity-in-a-Shifting-Legal-Landscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 survey\u003c/a> from the American Council on Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those colleges serve a small slice of the nation’s undergraduates. This fall, colleges that admitted half of their students or less enrolled just 10% of U.S. undergraduates, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students, this ruling may change which colleges they apply to and what information they share on their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left many school counselors and college coaches worried about whether they’ll have time to research and advise students on changing admissions policies. Many low-income students of color — whose school counselors tend to have higher student caseloads — won’t have someone to provide that kind of hands-on help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already a complicated job that’s underresourced,” said Austin Buchan, a senior vice president at College Possible, a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income families apply to college. “And this is just not going to do us any favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal essays, which often ask students about their identity, values, and how they’d contribute to campus life, are likely to be especially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During both sets of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oral arguments\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/20-1199_g314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several justices asked\u003c/a> whether students would still be permitted to talk about certain personal experiences, such as overcoming racial discrimination or taking pride in their family’s cultural traditions, if race could not be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions said “culture, tradition, heritage are all not off limits for students to talk about and for universities to consider” so long as the college awarded credit for “something unique and individual in what they actually wrote, not race itself.” Some justices noted that distinction could be hard for colleges to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, some college access coaches and school counselors worry that students will avoid talking about anything that could hint at their race, even if it could enhance their application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students might self-censor,” said Marie Bigham, the executive director of ACCEPT, a nonprofit that advocates for racial equity in college admissions. “Racial identities and experiences are just so interwoven with our lives in the United States. How do you pull that apart effectively in a way that’s not going to be constantly scrutinized?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"kBebD1\">Some students of color may lower their college ambitions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School counselors and college coaches say Black and Latino students already hold off on applying to the nation’s top colleges, or worry they don’t deserve their spots when they get accepted. The latest Supreme Court ruling, they said, could cause more students to question their abilities and whether they want to pursue higher education — at a time when there’s already been a spike in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students skipping college\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s compounding a narrative that many students feel reinforced at each step of the process,” said Buchan, of College Possible. He worries the ruling will cause more students to think: “See, I told you higher ed isn’t for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research also supports the idea that student motivation suffers when affirmative action is off the table. Natalie Bau, an economics professor at UCLA, looked at what happened when Texas lifted its ban on considering race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ay92xe71fyzop1/ABL_August2021.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She and her colleagues found\u003c/a> that Black and Latino high schoolers had better school attendance, higher SAT scores, higher grades, and applied to more colleges — and the effects were greatest for students with the highest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thinking is “before it seemed too hard” to get into a more selective college, and “now it becomes attainable, so it makes sense to put in that extra effort,” Bau said. With a nationwide ban on affirmative action, Bau said, student motivation may slip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underrepresented minority students might reduce their effort in high school and that might result in lower test scores, lower grades, lower attendance, and fewer applications to selective institutions,” Bau said. “That might make this under-application problem worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kalyn Belsha is a national education reporter based in Chicago. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process. The ruling will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1688053356,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1799},"headData":{"title":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer | KQED","description":"The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer","datePublished":"2023-06-29T15:40:00.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-29T15:42:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"nprByline":"Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61929/supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s top colleges are likely to enroll fewer Black, Latino, and Native American students after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to use affirmative action to create more racially diverse campuses, and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing for the majority\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts said that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions programs had violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars discrimination, because they “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bar will make it exceedingly difficult for colleges and universities to consider race as part of their admissions process going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts’ majority opinion did leave open a small window for how colleges could consider race in admissions. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” the chief justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described this as a meaningless concession — “nothing but an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court’s opinion circumscribes universities’ ability to consider race in any form by meticulously gutting respondents’ asserted diversity interests,” wrote Sotomayor. “Yet, because the Court cannot escape the inevitable truth that race matters in students’ lives, it announces a false promise to save face and appear attuned to reality. No one is fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states — including California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/affirmative-action-ban-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already ban affirmative action\u003c/a> at public colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision stems from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1199.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two\u003c/a> \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases\u003c/a> that were brought before the court by Students for Fair Admissions, an organization headed by Edward Blum, who has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent years fighting affirmative action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina over their race-conscious admissions policies, arguing that they were unfair and discriminatory. The group alleged that Harvard’s policies, in particular, discriminated against Asian American applicants. The universities countered that they needed to take race into account to build a diverse student body, which brings educational benefits to the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision has big implications for students looking to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, which are more likely to consider race as a factor in admissions. But the ruling likely will have little effect on the vast majority of college students who attend less selective schools, such as community colleges, which accept most students who apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three major ways the ruling is likely to affect students who are applying to college:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black, Latino, and Native students will be less likely to get into top colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at several selective colleges have said they expect the numbers of Black and Latino students, in particular, to decline if colleges are essentially no longer permitted to consider student race as part of a holistic admissions review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expert working on behalf of Harvard, for example, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/169941/20210225095533757_Students%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that getting rid of race-conscious admissions would cause Black enrollment in Harvard’s freshman class to fall from 14% to 6%, and Hispanic enrollment to drop from 14% to 9%. White and Asian American enrollment, meanwhile, would grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from states that previously banned affirmative action also provide a look at what may happen nationwide. After California and Michigan got rid of affirmative action, the share of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students at several of the most selective colleges fell sharply. Those figures tended to tick back up with time, but never fully rebounded — and they still fail to represent the racial diversity of high school graduates in those states, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Boston Globe reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When colleges become less racially diverse, students of color often feel the schools are less welcoming — which could further depress the number of Black and Latino students on campus. That matters because Black and Latino students are \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/upshot/elite-colleges-actual-value.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to benefit\u003c/a> from the social capital that comes from attending a top college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges in states that axed affirmative action have tried alternatives to create racially diverse classes. That includes accepting a certain percentage of top high school graduates, recruiting from high schools that enroll large shares of underrepresented students, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/richard-kahlenberg-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving preference to students from low-income families\u003c/a>. But \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/diversity-without-race/#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> and many college officials say those methods don’t work as well as explicitly taking race into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no race-neutral alternative to being able to consider race,” Femi Ogundele, an official at the University of California, Berkeley, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/california-banned-affirmative-action-uc-struggles-for-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Los Angeles Times recently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, colleges may not want to take new steps to ensure racial diversity for fear of violating the Supreme Court’s latest ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people imagine that we’ll find creative ways of working around the court’s decision, like using an applicant’s ZIP code as a stand-in for their race. But we won’t,” \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/columbia-president-lee-c-bollinger-looks-back-two-remarkable-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Lee Bollinger\u003c/a>, the outgoing president of Columbia University who was a defendant in a previous \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark Supreme Court case\u003c/a> that upheld affirmative action. “We can’t knowingly violate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. We’ll have to abide by it, no matter how painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"HuI6WT\">Students, and their school counselors, will have to navigate a new college admissions terrain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s ruling will have the biggest effects on high-achieving high schoolers who are applying to highly selective colleges, as those institutions are more likely to use race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of colleges considered race in admissions to some degree, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nacacnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/soca2019_all.pdf?_ga=2.43022893.905831718.1682630032-703981455.1682630031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 survey\u003c/a> from the National Association for College Admission Counseling that was cited in the court case. But 60% of the most selective colleges — those that accept 4 in 10 applicants or less — considered an applicant’s race, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Race-Class-and-College-Access-Achieving-Diversity-in-a-Shifting-Legal-Landscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 survey\u003c/a> from the American Council on Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those colleges serve a small slice of the nation’s undergraduates. This fall, colleges that admitted half of their students or less enrolled just 10% of U.S. undergraduates, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students, this ruling may change which colleges they apply to and what information they share on their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left many school counselors and college coaches worried about whether they’ll have time to research and advise students on changing admissions policies. Many low-income students of color — whose school counselors tend to have higher student caseloads — won’t have someone to provide that kind of hands-on help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already a complicated job that’s underresourced,” said Austin Buchan, a senior vice president at College Possible, a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income families apply to college. “And this is just not going to do us any favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal essays, which often ask students about their identity, values, and how they’d contribute to campus life, are likely to be especially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During both sets of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oral arguments\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/20-1199_g314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several justices asked\u003c/a> whether students would still be permitted to talk about certain personal experiences, such as overcoming racial discrimination or taking pride in their family’s cultural traditions, if race could not be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions said “culture, tradition, heritage are all not off limits for students to talk about and for universities to consider” so long as the college awarded credit for “something unique and individual in what they actually wrote, not race itself.” Some justices noted that distinction could be hard for colleges to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, some college access coaches and school counselors worry that students will avoid talking about anything that could hint at their race, even if it could enhance their application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students might self-censor,” said Marie Bigham, the executive director of ACCEPT, a nonprofit that advocates for racial equity in college admissions. “Racial identities and experiences are just so interwoven with our lives in the United States. How do you pull that apart effectively in a way that’s not going to be constantly scrutinized?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"kBebD1\">Some students of color may lower their college ambitions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School counselors and college coaches say Black and Latino students already hold off on applying to the nation’s top colleges, or worry they don’t deserve their spots when they get accepted. The latest Supreme Court ruling, they said, could cause more students to question their abilities and whether they want to pursue higher education — at a time when there’s already been a spike in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students skipping college\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s compounding a narrative that many students feel reinforced at each step of the process,” said Buchan, of College Possible. He worries the ruling will cause more students to think: “See, I told you higher ed isn’t for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research also supports the idea that student motivation suffers when affirmative action is off the table. Natalie Bau, an economics professor at UCLA, looked at what happened when Texas lifted its ban on considering race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ay92xe71fyzop1/ABL_August2021.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She and her colleagues found\u003c/a> that Black and Latino high schoolers had better school attendance, higher SAT scores, higher grades, and applied to more colleges — and the effects were greatest for students with the highest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thinking is “before it seemed too hard” to get into a more selective college, and “now it becomes attainable, so it makes sense to put in that extra effort,” Bau said. With a nationwide ban on affirmative action, Bau said, student motivation may slip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underrepresented minority students might reduce their effort in high school and that might result in lower test scores, lower grades, lower attendance, and fewer applications to selective institutions,” Bau said. “That might make this under-application problem worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kalyn Belsha is a national education reporter based in Chicago. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61929/supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","authors":["byline_mindshift_61929"],"categories":["mindshift_21694"],"tags":["mindshift_21696","mindshift_21635","mindshift_21261","mindshift_21189","mindshift_20966","mindshift_21699","mindshift_20610","mindshift_21695","mindshift_21284","mindshift_21700","mindshift_21698","mindshift_21697"],"featImg":"mindshift_61930","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60793":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60793","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60793","score":null,"sort":[1673834452000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gholdy-muhammad-wants-teachers-to-see-the-world-as-curriculum","title":"Gholdy Muhammad wants teachers to see the world as curriculum","publishDate":1673834452,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Gholdy Muhammad wants teachers to see the world as curriculum | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>TM ® & © Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. \u003ca href=\"https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/unearthing-joy-9781338856606.html\">Unearthing Joy\u003c/a> © 2023 by Gholdy Muhammad. Published by Scholastic Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defining the world as curriculum means we must move about and navigate the world, and see it as full of opportunities for teaching and learning. Often, I ask teachers to take a walk across any landscape and describe what they see. \u003cem>How can the people, places, lands, objects, animals, and things around them become ideas for teaching and learning?\u003c/em> For example, if you were to see a beautiful historic tree with striking buttress roots pushing up from the ground and interweaving with the soil and the trunk, what ideas for teaching and learning might come to mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask teachers and other developers of curriculum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What music and other sounds, paintings, and other visuals, digital creations, and so on do you see and feel? (Art)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What language, writing, and metaphors do you see and feel? (English Language Arts)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What examples of fitness and wellness do you see and feel? (Health and Physical Education)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What representations of numbers, quantities, and space do you see and feel? (Mathematics)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What branches of knowledge and discovery do you see and feel? (Science)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What histories and contemporary realities do you see and feel? (Social Studies)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Their responses become ideas to bring into the classroom. My goal is to cultivate curriculum fluency among teachers, meaning the ability to look at anything around them quickly and develop curriculum from it. Just as I want children to develop reading fluency, I want teachers to develop curriculum fluency to come up with ideas expeditiously and with excellence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Curriculum as Stories and Storytelling\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curriculum defined as stories and storytelling relates to the worthwhile narratives of humanity. Reading, telling, and listening to diverse stories are key to learning in school. We must ask whose stories have been told and taught (and from whose perspectives) and whose stories have not. Stories have a special quality of helping children to (re)member. They can be both real and imagined, and joy is connected to both types. As a reading specialist, I often give diagnostic assessments and find that students typically score higher on comprehension measures when they read narrative passages or texts, compared to informational passages or texts. That may be partly due to the power of stories to linger in our short-term and long-term memories. Stories provide a context for and connection to human lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I define curriculum as stories and storytelling because of their richness. I am not just referring to traditional literary themes and elements, such as characterization and plot, but the nuances, reflections, meanings, life lessons, and life connections to stories. Curriculum as stories and storytelling helps us to apply skills and standards to daily life. Importantly, artists across time have been creating and teaching through stories. For example, in Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album, Songs in the Key of Life, each track tells a story. When I listen to it, I wonder, \u003cem>What would curriculum in the key of life look and feel like for a child and teacher?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason educational leaders police curriculum and create policies around anti-Blackness and anti-critical race theory is because they seek to control stories in the hearts and minds of children. Consequently, as they grow older, those children are likely to teach the same false, incomplete, or harmful narratives to their children. In this way, curriculum is generational. I wonder how those leaders must feel about themselves restraining complete, justice-centered stories in schools. I ask teachers and curriculum developers, \u003cem>Which stories do schools consider worthwhile? What criteria were used to select those stories? How do the stories we teach elevate students’ HILL (histories, identities, literacies, and liberation)?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Curriculum as Legacy and Legacy Building\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curriculum defined as legacy and legacy building means that what we teach and how we teach it must leave an imprint on the lives of our students. It should feel special and enduring. Such curriculum should encourage and enable students to feel, and act toward improving the self and the world. What is being taught and learned should be significant, meaningful, and unique to our communities. Curriculum as legacy and legacy building should leave a stamp on our culture—and lead to a record of our times. Every time I develop a lesson, unit plan, or learning experience, I try to build in the legacies of the ancestors—this is what the five pursuits enable. I ask teachers and curriculum developers: \u003cem>What legacies do you wish to create? What do you want to be known for? What imprints and trajectories do you want to make?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8894116453&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These ways of (re)defining and (re)conceptualizing curriculum are dynamic and push boundaries of imaginings of who our students can become. Curriculum must not only connect to the world, but must also disrupt hurt, harm, and pain in the world. So, it’s important to ask yourself, does my current curriculum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>implicitly or explicitly contribute to others’ hurt, harm, or pain?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>silence others’ hurt, harm, or pain?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>actively disrupt others’ hurt, harm, or pain, and bring joy?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>We must question curriculum and the great impact it can have. Of course, curriculum should always connect to justice, equity, anti-racism, and other anti-oppressions, and the ultimate goal of curriculum should be joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-60795 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-800x1172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-800x1172.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-160x234.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-768x1125.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GholdyM\">Dr. Gholdy Muhammad\u003c/a> is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language & Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books. Dr. Muhammad was named among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-the-2022-rhsu-edu-scholar-public-influence-rankings/2022/01\">top 2022 education scholars of public influence\u003c/a> in Education Week’s “Rick Hess Straight Up” blog rankings. She is the author of the best-selling book, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/c4ouCrkYKnfD6wvmI7FOK5?domain=shop.scholastic.com\">Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy\u003c/a> (Scholastic).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dr.Gholdy Muhammad shows how joy, which is rooted in the cultural and historical realities of Black students, can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect and criticality for ALL students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681825587,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":971},"headData":{"title":"Gholdy Muhammad wants teachers to see the world as curriculum | KQED","description":"In her sequel to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit to her groundbreaking framework: joy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Gholdy Muhammad wants teachers to see the world as curriculum","datePublished":"2023-01-16T02:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-18T13:46:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC8894116453.mp3?updated=1681783243","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/60793/gholdy-muhammad-wants-teachers-to-see-the-world-as-curriculum","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>TM ® & © Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. \u003ca href=\"https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/unearthing-joy-9781338856606.html\">Unearthing Joy\u003c/a> © 2023 by Gholdy Muhammad. Published by Scholastic Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defining the world as curriculum means we must move about and navigate the world, and see it as full of opportunities for teaching and learning. Often, I ask teachers to take a walk across any landscape and describe what they see. \u003cem>How can the people, places, lands, objects, animals, and things around them become ideas for teaching and learning?\u003c/em> For example, if you were to see a beautiful historic tree with striking buttress roots pushing up from the ground and interweaving with the soil and the trunk, what ideas for teaching and learning might come to mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask teachers and other developers of curriculum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What music and other sounds, paintings, and other visuals, digital creations, and so on do you see and feel? (Art)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What language, writing, and metaphors do you see and feel? (English Language Arts)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What examples of fitness and wellness do you see and feel? (Health and Physical Education)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What representations of numbers, quantities, and space do you see and feel? (Mathematics)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What branches of knowledge and discovery do you see and feel? (Science)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What histories and contemporary realities do you see and feel? (Social Studies)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Their responses become ideas to bring into the classroom. My goal is to cultivate curriculum fluency among teachers, meaning the ability to look at anything around them quickly and develop curriculum from it. Just as I want children to develop reading fluency, I want teachers to develop curriculum fluency to come up with ideas expeditiously and with excellence.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Curriculum as Stories and Storytelling\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curriculum defined as stories and storytelling relates to the worthwhile narratives of humanity. Reading, telling, and listening to diverse stories are key to learning in school. We must ask whose stories have been told and taught (and from whose perspectives) and whose stories have not. Stories have a special quality of helping children to (re)member. They can be both real and imagined, and joy is connected to both types. As a reading specialist, I often give diagnostic assessments and find that students typically score higher on comprehension measures when they read narrative passages or texts, compared to informational passages or texts. That may be partly due to the power of stories to linger in our short-term and long-term memories. Stories provide a context for and connection to human lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I define curriculum as stories and storytelling because of their richness. I am not just referring to traditional literary themes and elements, such as characterization and plot, but the nuances, reflections, meanings, life lessons, and life connections to stories. Curriculum as stories and storytelling helps us to apply skills and standards to daily life. Importantly, artists across time have been creating and teaching through stories. For example, in Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album, Songs in the Key of Life, each track tells a story. When I listen to it, I wonder, \u003cem>What would curriculum in the key of life look and feel like for a child and teacher?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason educational leaders police curriculum and create policies around anti-Blackness and anti-critical race theory is because they seek to control stories in the hearts and minds of children. Consequently, as they grow older, those children are likely to teach the same false, incomplete, or harmful narratives to their children. In this way, curriculum is generational. I wonder how those leaders must feel about themselves restraining complete, justice-centered stories in schools. I ask teachers and curriculum developers, \u003cem>Which stories do schools consider worthwhile? What criteria were used to select those stories? How do the stories we teach elevate students’ HILL (histories, identities, literacies, and liberation)?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Curriculum as Legacy and Legacy Building\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Curriculum defined as legacy and legacy building means that what we teach and how we teach it must leave an imprint on the lives of our students. It should feel special and enduring. Such curriculum should encourage and enable students to feel, and act toward improving the self and the world. What is being taught and learned should be significant, meaningful, and unique to our communities. Curriculum as legacy and legacy building should leave a stamp on our culture—and lead to a record of our times. Every time I develop a lesson, unit plan, or learning experience, I try to build in the legacies of the ancestors—this is what the five pursuits enable. I ask teachers and curriculum developers: \u003cem>What legacies do you wish to create? What do you want to be known for? What imprints and trajectories do you want to make?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8894116453&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These ways of (re)defining and (re)conceptualizing curriculum are dynamic and push boundaries of imaginings of who our students can become. Curriculum must not only connect to the world, but must also disrupt hurt, harm, and pain in the world. So, it’s important to ask yourself, does my current curriculum:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>implicitly or explicitly contribute to others’ hurt, harm, or pain?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>silence others’ hurt, harm, or pain?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>actively disrupt others’ hurt, harm, or pain, and bring joy?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>We must question curriculum and the great impact it can have. Of course, curriculum should always connect to justice, equity, anti-racism, and other anti-oppressions, and the ultimate goal of curriculum should be joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-60795 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-800x1172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-800x1172.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-160x234.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1-768x1125.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/01/Headshot-Oct34-1.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GholdyM\">Dr. Gholdy Muhammad\u003c/a> is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language & Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books. Dr. Muhammad was named among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-the-2022-rhsu-edu-scholar-public-influence-rankings/2022/01\">top 2022 education scholars of public influence\u003c/a> in Education Week’s “Rick Hess Straight Up” blog rankings. She is the author of the best-selling book, \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/c4ouCrkYKnfD6wvmI7FOK5?domain=shop.scholastic.com\">Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy\u003c/a> (Scholastic).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60793/gholdy-muhammad-wants-teachers-to-see-the-world-as-curriculum","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_21491","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21250","mindshift_21403","mindshift_20610","mindshift_20646","mindshift_21597","mindshift_21401","mindshift_21324","mindshift_21166"],"featImg":"mindshift_60799","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60069":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60069","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60069","score":null,"sort":[1667206877000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-the-research-finds-on-increasing-diversity-in-college-admissions","title":"What the research finds on increasing diversity in college admissions","publishDate":1667206877,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Universities around the country will be watching carefully as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/MonthlyArgumentCalNovember2022.pdf\">two college admissions cases\u003c/a> on Oct. 31, 2022. Many legal pundits predict that affirmative action, a practice that gives preferences to groups that have been discriminated against, will be abolished when the court issues its decision next spring. That could prevent both private and public universities from considering a student’s race or ethnicity as one of many factors in admissions, along with grades, test scores and extracurricular activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges that still want to build a diverse student body that reflects the country’s demographics are looking for alternatives. Two states could provide valuable information. Researchers have studied what has happened at public universities in Texas and California, which have banned the use of affirmative action since 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas moved to a Top Ten Percent policy in 1998 under which public universities accept the cream of the crop at every high school in both wealthy and poor neighborhoods. (In practice, students now need to be in the top \u003ca href=\"https://news.utexas.edu/topics-in-the-news/top-10-percent-law/\">6 percent\u003c/a> of their high school class for admission to the University of Texas at Austin.) But that didn’t help increase the percentage of Black and Hispanic students all that much. Immediately after the affirmative action ban, the percentage of Black and Hispanic students at the state’s two flagship campuses, UT-Austin and Texas A&M, \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/college-access/admissions/percent-plans-in-college-admissions-a-comparative-analysis-of-three-states2019-experiences/horn-percent-plans-2003.pdf\">fell from 18\u003c/a> percent to 13 percent. Four years after the Top Ten Percent policy started, the percentage of Black and Hispanic students \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mw4r5ds\">increased by only 1.6 percentage points \u003c/a>at the flagship campuses. Researchers say that tiny increase was probably due to demographic changes in the state and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/4624567\">not because the plan was working well\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of high-achieving students at low-income high schools \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/texas-top-10-policy-didnt-expand-number-of-high-schools-feeding-students-to-top-universities/\">weren’t taking advantage of the Top Ten Percent policy\u003c/a>. Even though they would have been automatically admitted to UT-Austin and Texas A&M, they didn’t bother to apply. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28280/w28280.pdf\">Nearly half of the state’s high schools never or rarely\u003c/a> sent students to the flagships for 18 years after the Top Ten Percent policy went into effect. Higher income high schools that originally funneled kids to Texas’s flagships continued to be the main suppliers of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had a similar experience. After voters eliminated affirmative action in a 1996 referendum, the University of California system tried \u003ca href=\"https://eaop.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">outreach programs\u003c/a> and an automatic acceptance policy for students in the \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/california-residents/statewide-guarantee/\">top 9 percent\u003c/a> of their high school classes. In 2001, the UC system moved to “holistic” admissions, looking at many factors beyond test scores and grades. Beginning in 2020, the system eliminated SAT and ACT tests altogether. But UC \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">says its efforts haven’t been enough to keep up with changing demographics\u003c/a> in the state. The state’s high school seniors in 2021 were \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/as-supreme-court-considers-affirmative-action-case-university-of-california-offers-cautionary-tale/679692\">54 percent Latino and 5.4 percent Black\u003c/a>. But that fall, University of California’s incoming freshmen were 26 percent Latino, and 4.4 percent Black. It was worse at the \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data-new-undergraduates\">most selective campuses\u003c/a>. (Enrollment data for 2022 isn’t yet available.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of California’s decision to scrap SAT or ACT scores is unusual, but more than 1,700 universities and colleges have adopted test-optional admissions. Many hoped that it would level the playing field with applicants who can’t afford expensive SAT tutors. But research shows that it has failed to substantially raise the share of low-income students or students of color. One study published in 2021 found that the share of \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-test-optional-policies-didnt-do-much-to-diversify-college-student-populations/\">Black, Hispanic and Native American students increased by only 1 percentage point \u003c/a>at about 100 colleges and universities that adopted the policy between 2005-06 and 2015-16. A separate study of a group of \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0162373714537350\">selective liberal arts colleges that adopted test-optional policies before 2011\u003c/a> didn’t find any didn’t find any improvement in diversity on those campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another research team is interviewing college admissions officers to understand why. In preliminary findings, the researchers learned that colleges were replacing standardized tests with metrics that were \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-colleges-that-ditched-test-scores-for-admissions-find-its-harder-to-be-fair-in-choosing-students-researcher-says/\">even more biased toward wealthier and white students\u003c/a>, such as letters of recommendation and expensive extracurricular activities. Admissions officers admitted that it was difficult to weigh an applicant with test scores against one without, and the one with test scores often won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other researchers are finding evidence that it might not be Black and Hispanic students who are getting the biggest preferences in the admissions office, but rather privileged white students. More than \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/harvard-critic-finds-white-jocks-and-rich-kids-get-preferential-treatment-in-admissions/\">43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard\u003c/a> between 2009 and 2014 fell into four preferential categories: athletes, legacies (the children of alumni), the children of big donors or faculty and staff children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alumni children are \u003ca href=\"https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713744\">up to eight times \u003c/a>more likely to be accepted at elite colleges, according to one estimate. Another study at an unnamed elite Northeastern college found that so many legacy students had been admitted that they outnumbered the number of Hispanic students. It will be a tough habit to break because legacy students \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-cant-give-up-legacy-admissions/\">matriculate and donate in much higher numbers\u003c/a>, helping colleges meet enrollment and fundraising targets. In the study, a whopping 42 percent of legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors. Only 6 percent of non-legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this research evidence, there don’t seem to be easy substitutes for affirmative action that can help foster diversity. One small ray of hope comes from a \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-study-finds-guaranteed-free-tuition-lures-low-income-students/\">financial aid study at the University of Michigan\u003c/a>. It found that upfront guarantees of free tuition were effective in getting more disadvantaged students to apply and enroll. However, this experiment was conducted in rural areas and largely affected low-income white students. It’s unclear if it would be equally effective with students of color.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Colleges that still want to build a diverse student body that reflects the country’s demographics are looking for alternatives. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1667593390,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":990},"headData":{"title":"What the research finds on increasing diversity in college admissions - MindShift","description":"Colleges that still want to build a diverse student body that reflects the country’s demographics are looking for alternatives. 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Many legal pundits predict that affirmative action, a practice that gives preferences to groups that have been discriminated against, will be abolished when the court issues its decision next spring. That could prevent both private and public universities from considering a student’s race or ethnicity as one of many factors in admissions, along with grades, test scores and extracurricular activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges that still want to build a diverse student body that reflects the country’s demographics are looking for alternatives. Two states could provide valuable information. Researchers have studied what has happened at public universities in Texas and California, which have banned the use of affirmative action since 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas moved to a Top Ten Percent policy in 1998 under which public universities accept the cream of the crop at every high school in both wealthy and poor neighborhoods. (In practice, students now need to be in the top \u003ca href=\"https://news.utexas.edu/topics-in-the-news/top-10-percent-law/\">6 percent\u003c/a> of their high school class for admission to the University of Texas at Austin.) But that didn’t help increase the percentage of Black and Hispanic students all that much. Immediately after the affirmative action ban, the percentage of Black and Hispanic students at the state’s two flagship campuses, UT-Austin and Texas A&M, \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/college-access/admissions/percent-plans-in-college-admissions-a-comparative-analysis-of-three-states2019-experiences/horn-percent-plans-2003.pdf\">fell from 18\u003c/a> percent to 13 percent. Four years after the Top Ten Percent policy started, the percentage of Black and Hispanic students \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mw4r5ds\">increased by only 1.6 percentage points \u003c/a>at the flagship campuses. Researchers say that tiny increase was probably due to demographic changes in the state and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/4624567\">not because the plan was working well\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of high-achieving students at low-income high schools \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/texas-top-10-policy-didnt-expand-number-of-high-schools-feeding-students-to-top-universities/\">weren’t taking advantage of the Top Ten Percent policy\u003c/a>. Even though they would have been automatically admitted to UT-Austin and Texas A&M, they didn’t bother to apply. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28280/w28280.pdf\">Nearly half of the state’s high schools never or rarely\u003c/a> sent students to the flagships for 18 years after the Top Ten Percent policy went into effect. Higher income high schools that originally funneled kids to Texas’s flagships continued to be the main suppliers of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had a similar experience. After voters eliminated affirmative action in a 1996 referendum, the University of California system tried \u003ca href=\"https://eaop.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">outreach programs\u003c/a> and an automatic acceptance policy for students in the \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/california-residents/statewide-guarantee/\">top 9 percent\u003c/a> of their high school classes. In 2001, the UC system moved to “holistic” admissions, looking at many factors beyond test scores and grades. Beginning in 2020, the system eliminated SAT and ACT tests altogether. But UC \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/232355/20220801134931730_20-1199%20bsac%20University%20of%20California.pdf\">says its efforts haven’t been enough to keep up with changing demographics\u003c/a> in the state. The state’s high school seniors in 2021 were \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/as-supreme-court-considers-affirmative-action-case-university-of-california-offers-cautionary-tale/679692\">54 percent Latino and 5.4 percent Black\u003c/a>. But that fall, University of California’s incoming freshmen were 26 percent Latino, and 4.4 percent Black. It was worse at the \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data-new-undergraduates\">most selective campuses\u003c/a>. (Enrollment data for 2022 isn’t yet available.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of California’s decision to scrap SAT or ACT scores is unusual, but more than 1,700 universities and colleges have adopted test-optional admissions. Many hoped that it would level the playing field with applicants who can’t afford expensive SAT tutors. But research shows that it has failed to substantially raise the share of low-income students or students of color. One study published in 2021 found that the share of \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-test-optional-policies-didnt-do-much-to-diversify-college-student-populations/\">Black, Hispanic and Native American students increased by only 1 percentage point \u003c/a>at about 100 colleges and universities that adopted the policy between 2005-06 and 2015-16. A separate study of a group of \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0162373714537350\">selective liberal arts colleges that adopted test-optional policies before 2011\u003c/a> didn’t find any didn’t find any improvement in diversity on those campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another research team is interviewing college admissions officers to understand why. In preliminary findings, the researchers learned that colleges were replacing standardized tests with metrics that were \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-colleges-that-ditched-test-scores-for-admissions-find-its-harder-to-be-fair-in-choosing-students-researcher-says/\">even more biased toward wealthier and white students\u003c/a>, such as letters of recommendation and expensive extracurricular activities. Admissions officers admitted that it was difficult to weigh an applicant with test scores against one without, and the one with test scores often won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other researchers are finding evidence that it might not be Black and Hispanic students who are getting the biggest preferences in the admissions office, but rather privileged white students. More than \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/harvard-critic-finds-white-jocks-and-rich-kids-get-preferential-treatment-in-admissions/\">43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard\u003c/a> between 2009 and 2014 fell into four preferential categories: athletes, legacies (the children of alumni), the children of big donors or faculty and staff children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alumni children are \u003ca href=\"https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713744\">up to eight times \u003c/a>more likely to be accepted at elite colleges, according to one estimate. Another study at an unnamed elite Northeastern college found that so many legacy students had been admitted that they outnumbered the number of Hispanic students. It will be a tough habit to break because legacy students \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-cant-give-up-legacy-admissions/\">matriculate and donate in much higher numbers\u003c/a>, helping colleges meet enrollment and fundraising targets. In the study, a whopping 42 percent of legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors. Only 6 percent of non-legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this research evidence, there don’t seem to be easy substitutes for affirmative action that can help foster diversity. One small ray of hope comes from a \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-study-finds-guaranteed-free-tuition-lures-low-income-students/\">financial aid study at the University of Michigan\u003c/a>. It found that upfront guarantees of free tuition were effective in getting more disadvantaged students to apply and enroll. However, this experiment was conducted in rural areas and largely affected low-income white students. It’s unclear if it would be equally effective with students of color.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60069/what-the-research-finds-on-increasing-diversity-in-college-admissions","authors":["byline_mindshift_60069"],"categories":["mindshift_1"],"tags":["mindshift_21189","mindshift_20610"],"featImg":"mindshift_60070","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_59062":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_59062","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"59062","score":null,"sort":[1642750088000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-mexico-is-pushing-to-be-a-model-for-how-race-is-taught-in-u-s-schools","title":"New Mexico is pushing to be a 'model' for how race is taught in U.S. schools","publishDate":1642750088,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A proposal to overhaul New Mexico's social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should be taught in schools, with thousands of parents and teachers weighing in on changes that would dramatically increase instruction related to racial and social identity beginning in kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revisions in the state are ambitious. New Mexico officials say they hope their standards can be a model for the country of social studies teaching that is culturally responsive, as student populations grow increasingly diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elsewhere, the move toward more open discussion of race has prompted angry rebukes, with some critics blasting it as racist or Marxist. But the responses also provide a window into how others are wrestling with how and when race should be taught to children beyond the polarizing debates over material branded as \"critical race theory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses have not broken down along racial lines, with Indigenous and Latino parents among those expressing concern in one of the country's least racially segregated states. While debates elsewhere have centered on the teaching of enslavement of Black people, some discussions in New Mexico, which is 49% Hispanic and 11% Native American, have focused on the legacy of Spanish conquistadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We refuse to be categorized as victims or oppressors,\" wrote Michael Franco, a retired Hispanic air traffic controller in Albuquerque who said the standards appeared aimed at categorizing children by race and ethnicity and undercutting the narrative of the American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New Mexico Public Education Department's proposed standards are aimed at making civics, history, and geography more inclusive of the state's population so that students feel at home in the curriculum and prepared for a diverse society, according to public statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our out-of-date standards leave New Mexico students with an incomplete understanding of the complex, multicultural world they live in,\" Public Education Secretary Designate Kurt Steinhaus said. \"It's our duty to provide them with a complete education based on known facts. That's what these proposed standards will do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for students to learn about different \"identity groups\" in kindergarten and \"unequal power relations\" in later grades. One part of the draft standards would require high school students to \"assess how social policies and economic forces offer privilege or systemic inequity\" for opportunities for members of identity groups. In a first for the state, ethnic studies and the history of the LGBT rights movement also would be introduced into the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Albuquerque pastor, Rev. Sylvia Miller-Mutia, welcomed the change in her written comment, arguing children see race early, and that learning about it in school can dismantle stereotypes early. When her eldest child was 3, she said that her Filipino dad wasn't American because he has dark skin, while her mother was American because she has light skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Already, a cultural script that said to be American is to be light-skinned had somehow seeped into my preschooler's consciousness,\" Miller-Mutia said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democratic-run states across the country are looking to diversify those cultural scripts, while Republican-run ones are putting up guardrails against possible changes. California was among the first states last year to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement. Texas passed a law requiring teachers to present multiple perspectives on all issues and one Indiana lawmaker proposed that teachers be required to take a \"neutral\" position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education department in New Mexico is reviewing over 1,300 letters on the proposed standards along with dozens of comments from an online forum in November. The standards were written with input from 64 people around the state, mostly social studies teachers, and are to be published next spring with revisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the authors was Wendy Leighton, a Santa Fe middle school history teacher. As a leader of the revisions for the history section of the standards, she said the goal was to take marginalized groups like indigenous, LGBTQ and other people \"that are often not in textbooks or pushed to the side and making them kind of more closer to the center.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identity was the center of a class she taught in December, where students learning about the Salem witch trials identified which groups were at the center of power — clergy, men — and which were on the margins — women, servants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's a marginalized group in America today?\" she asked the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Republicans have argued that parents should teach their children sensitive topics like race and that there are bigger priorities in a state that ranks toward the bottom in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The focus that I feel is urgent is math, reading and writing. Not social studies standards,\" said state Rep. Rebecca Dow, one of six candidates for the Republican nomination for governor next year, hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who wrote public comments said they would rather homeschool their children than have them learn under the proposed standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Struggle and adversity have never been limited to one specific race or ethnicity. Neither has privilege,\" wrote Lucas Tieme, a father of five public school students, who are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tieme, a bus driver for Rio Rancho public schools, said his wife was homeschooled so they'd be ready to take their kids out of school if it came to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who support the changes generally are skeptical of introducing race for the youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheldon Pickering, 41, has two adopted children who are Black, and has seen casual racism against his kids escalate as they reach adolescence in Farmington, near the southeast corner of Utah and the eastern part of the Navajo Nation. He has had \"the talk\" with his Black son, instructing him how to interact with police. But Pickering, who is white, worries about schools introducing too much too soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we start too early, we rob kids of this rare time in their life that they have just to be kids,\" said Pickering, a cleaning business owner. \"They just get to be these amazing little kids and enjoy life without preconceived notions, without context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Attanasio on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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New Mexico officials say they hope their standards can be a model for the country of social studies teaching that is culturally responsive, as student populations grow increasingly diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elsewhere, the move toward more open discussion of race has prompted angry rebukes, with some critics blasting it as racist or Marxist. But the responses also provide a window into how others are wrestling with how and when race should be taught to children beyond the polarizing debates over material branded as \"critical race theory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses have not broken down along racial lines, with Indigenous and Latino parents among those expressing concern in one of the country's least racially segregated states. 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That's what these proposed standards will do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls for students to learn about different \"identity groups\" in kindergarten and \"unequal power relations\" in later grades. One part of the draft standards would require high school students to \"assess how social policies and economic forces offer privilege or systemic inequity\" for opportunities for members of identity groups. In a first for the state, ethnic studies and the history of the LGBT rights movement also would be introduced into the curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Albuquerque pastor, Rev. Sylvia Miller-Mutia, welcomed the change in her written comment, arguing children see race early, and that learning about it in school can dismantle stereotypes early. When her eldest child was 3, she said that her Filipino dad wasn't American because he has dark skin, while her mother was American because she has light skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Already, a cultural script that said to be American is to be light-skinned had somehow seeped into my preschooler's consciousness,\" Miller-Mutia said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democratic-run states across the country are looking to diversify those cultural scripts, while Republican-run ones are putting up guardrails against possible changes. California was among the first states last year to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement. Texas passed a law requiring teachers to present multiple perspectives on all issues and one Indiana lawmaker proposed that teachers be required to take a \"neutral\" position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The education department in New Mexico is reviewing over 1,300 letters on the proposed standards along with dozens of comments from an online forum in November. The standards were written with input from 64 people around the state, mostly social studies teachers, and are to be published next spring with revisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the authors was Wendy Leighton, a Santa Fe middle school history teacher. As a leader of the revisions for the history section of the standards, she said the goal was to take marginalized groups like indigenous, LGBTQ and other people \"that are often not in textbooks or pushed to the side and making them kind of more closer to the center.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identity was the center of a class she taught in December, where students learning about the Salem witch trials identified which groups were at the center of power — clergy, men — and which were on the margins — women, servants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's a marginalized group in America today?\" she asked the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Republicans have argued that parents should teach their children sensitive topics like race and that there are bigger priorities in a state that ranks toward the bottom in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The focus that I feel is urgent is math, reading and writing. Not social studies standards,\" said state Rep. Rebecca Dow, one of six candidates for the Republican nomination for governor next year, hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who wrote public comments said they would rather homeschool their children than have them learn under the proposed standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Struggle and adversity have never been limited to one specific race or ethnicity. Neither has privilege,\" wrote Lucas Tieme, a father of five public school students, who are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tieme, a bus driver for Rio Rancho public schools, said his wife was homeschooled so they'd be ready to take their kids out of school if it came to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents who support the changes generally are skeptical of introducing race for the youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheldon Pickering, 41, has two adopted children who are Black, and has seen casual racism against his kids escalate as they reach adolescence in Farmington, near the southeast corner of Utah and the eastern part of the Navajo Nation. He has had \"the talk\" with his Black son, instructing him how to interact with police. But Pickering, who is white, worries about schools introducing too much too soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we start too early, we rob kids of this rare time in their life that they have just to be kids,\" said Pickering, a cleaning business owner. \"They just get to be these amazing little kids and enjoy life without preconceived notions, without context.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Attanasio on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=New+Mexico+is+pushing+to+be+a+%27model%27+for+how+race+is+taught+in+U.S.+schools&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/59062/new-mexico-is-pushing-to-be-a-model-for-how-race-is-taught-in-u-s-schools","authors":["byline_mindshift_59062"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20610","mindshift_21015","mindshift_21317"],"featImg":"mindshift_59063","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_58898":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_58898","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"58898","score":null,"sort":[1641284749000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"retaining-and-sustaining-black-teachers","title":"Retaining and sustaining Black teachers","publishDate":1641284749,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Retaining and sustaining Black teachers | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":21847,"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Micia Mosely connected with her former student who had become a teacher, she thought, “I don’t want what happened to me to happen to her.” As a Black teacher in San Francisco, her former student was struggling with burnout and considering leaving the profession altogether. Like Mosely had when she was a young teacher, her former student was falling victim to what former U.S. Secretary of Education John King calls the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-invisible-tax-on-black-teachers/2016/05/15/6b7bea06-16f7-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“invisible tax” put on educators of color\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. “There is so much that’s expected of us relative to being the liaison between Black families and schools, and really to do a lot of invisible and uncompensated work,” said Mosely. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their shared story reflects the experiences of many Black educators and highlights an equally concerning Black teacher shortage nested within the national teacher shortage. In response to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022487118812418\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“push out factors”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that often burden Black educators, Mosley founded the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.blackteacherproject.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Teacher Project \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(BTP), an organization that supports the shrinking population of Black teachers through leadership-focused professional development to ensure their schools are liberatory learning environments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1545339134\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Every Student Deserves a Black Teacher,” BTP’s slogan, draws from research that shows \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X16671718\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">students of all races/ethnicities have more favorable views of Black teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and evidence showing Black teachers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/the-race-connection/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high expectations for Black students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leads to better learning outcomes. Their vision is that “every student will benefit from the diversity, excellence, and leadership of an empo\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wered Black teaching force” and for Black teachers to work in environments that appreciate all of their gifts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“When we think about non-black students, for many, the only interaction they’ll have with a Black person who is in authority and has a knowledge base greater than theirs is in the classroom,” said Mosely. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Recruitment, retention and relationships\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When school leaders come to Mosely looking to hire Black teachers, her first question might surprise them: “Why do you want a Black teacher at your school?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the reasons for hiring Black teachers may seem obvious to many, there is such a thing as hiring Black teachers for the wrong reason. “People won’t admit it, but underneath the desire it’s really about the management of Black bodies,” said Mosely. “When a Black child gets in trouble, it is often a Black adult who is called upon to address the situation.” Schools often push teachers into roles where their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ThroughOurEyes.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">job is to manage behavior.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mosely notes that Black educators are likely to be deans or be directed to participate on culture and climate committees rather than on instructional leadership teams. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing Black educators as disciplinarians also results in Black teachers getting less support and recognition for their effectiveness when they have a well-behaved classroom. “Schools don’t often pore into Black teachers \u003c/span>in the way that they may other teachers because of the optics of discipline. It seems like everything’s calm, as though a successful classroom is simply students not misbehaving,” she said. Because of their success, these teachers are usually saddled with attending to students with behavioral issues and are left with little time to advance their teaching practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good behavior in B\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack teachers’ classrooms is often indicative of their strong relationships with students, not their skill as disciplinarians. “Researchers talk about this concept of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/marachi/mle/Warm%20Demander%20Article.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">warm demanders,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who are the folks who can tap into the emotional needs of a young person and still have demands of them academically,” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said Mosely. “That phrase ‘warm demander’ is most often associated with Black teachers.” School leaders who intend to hire \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black teachers must be prepared to both support the\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m with professional development and the structures that will allow their effective teaching practices to flourish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mosely uses work by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/john-powell\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at UC\u003c/span> Berkeley to explain why schools need to move\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57280/strategies-for-retaining-teachers-of-color-and-making-schools-more-equitable\"> Black teacher recruitment and retention efforts\u003c/a> beyond inclusion to authentic belongin\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g. “Inclusion means you can get included in what we’re doing,” said Mosely. “Belonging says when I go into that environment, it changes.” This may look like shifting prioritization away from test scores towards relationships, or a willingness to have structures and processes shift in order to accommodate Black teachers’ expertise. “It doesn’t mean that you don’t value assessment, but you’re also going to need to create space to value people,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Healing as professional development \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As evidenced by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/publications/despite-reductions-black-students-and-students-with-disabilities-remain-more-likely-to-experience-suspension\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disproportionate discipline rates \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/survey-of-mostly-white-educators-finds-1-in-5-think-textbooks-accurately-reflect-people-of-color/2020/06\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">curriculum that usually privileges white perspectives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Black students have had to figure out how to navigate a school system that was not created for them to succeed. That was the case when Mosely, as a young student, was bussed from her neighborhood to a mostly white school. “It was painful to go to a predominantly white institution where folks automatically assume that I wasn’t smart enough,” she said. Like Mosely, many Black teachers who remember learning in an unwelcoming and racist school system use their experiences to be better teachers. “Black teachers are focused on the well-being of the whole child and healing from all forms of oppression, which is something that successful Black teachers have had to figure out how to do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though many Black teachers have been able to turn their difficult learning experiences into strong teaching practices, they need to do their own healing in order to become effective educators. “For many Black teachers, you’re dealing with the residual pain of however you navigated the system,” said Mosely. While healing may not seem like it falls under professional development, BTP spends a lot of time helping Black educators unpack experiences of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/yeah-but-theyre-white\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">internalized oppression\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or feelings of inadequacy they might have picked up in the educational system. To Mosely and others at BTP, self and community care as a professional practice enables Black teachers to not burnout and continue to show up better for students. The healing work keeps them from perpetuating a harmful and oftentimes racist system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58909 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black teachers are the focus of BTP, but Mosely makes it clear that all teachers are in need of healing, whether it’s because becoming a teacher went against your parents expectations or needing to understand the weight and responsibilities of being a teacher with certain identities. “When we think about everyone focusing on healing as part of professional practice, it allows us to move forward with a clearer understanding of who we are and what’s ours to do,” said Mosely, noting that the pandemic and its effect on schools has made the need for healing even greater. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the ways this healing can take place is through participation in affinity groups, or groupings of people with a shared identity. Mosely said that being in affinity groups like Black Teacher Project enables its participants to step outside systemic expectations and allow different practices to emerge. With a sense of purpose, together, they explore their shared experiences, histories and healing practices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though BTP focuses their support on Back teachers, Mosely said that all groupings benefit from affinity groups as long as they have a clear learning and healing agenda. For instance, a white affinity group may learn about the history of white antiracists, how they have come to be called white, and how to heal from the ways they too have been harmed by oppression. “We always talk about oppression as though it only harmed people of color, but white folks have been stripped of their humanity as well,” Mosely said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>MindShift is part of KQED, a non-profit NPR and PBS member station in San Francisco, CA. The text of this specific article is available to republish for noncommercial purposes under a Creative Commons \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003c/a> license, thanks to support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Micia Mosely from the Black Teacher Project shares tips on how to end burnout, improve diversity and address the Black teacher shortage.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713642502,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1364},"headData":{"title":"Retaining and sustaining Black teachers | KQED","description":"Micia Mosely from the Black Teacher Project shares tips on how to end burnout, improve diversity and address the Black teacher shortage.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Micia Mosely from the Black Teacher Project shares tips on how to end burnout, improve diversity and address the Black teacher shortage.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Retaining and sustaining Black teachers","datePublished":"2022-01-04T08:25:49.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-20T19:48:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/58898/retaining-and-sustaining-black-teachers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Micia Mosely connected with her former student who had become a teacher, she thought, “I don’t want what happened to me to happen to her.” As a Black teacher in San Francisco, her former student was struggling with burnout and considering leaving the profession altogether. Like Mosely had when she was a young teacher, her former student was falling victim to what former U.S. Secretary of Education John King calls the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-invisible-tax-on-black-teachers/2016/05/15/6b7bea06-16f7-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“invisible tax” put on educators of color\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. “There is so much that’s expected of us relative to being the liaison between Black families and schools, and really to do a lot of invisible and uncompensated work,” said Mosely. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their shared story reflects the experiences of many Black educators and highlights an equally concerning Black teacher shortage nested within the national teacher shortage. In response to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022487118812418\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“push out factors”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that often burden Black educators, Mosley founded the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.blackteacherproject.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Teacher Project \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(BTP), an organization that supports the shrinking population of Black teachers through leadership-focused professional development to ensure their schools are liberatory learning environments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1545339134\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Every Student Deserves a Black Teacher,” BTP’s slogan, draws from research that shows \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X16671718\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">students of all races/ethnicities have more favorable views of Black teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and evidence showing Black teachers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/the-race-connection/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high expectations for Black students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leads to better learning outcomes. Their vision is that “every student will benefit from the diversity, excellence, and leadership of an empo\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wered Black teaching force” and for Black teachers to work in environments that appreciate all of their gifts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“When we think about non-black students, for many, the only interaction they’ll have with a Black person who is in authority and has a knowledge base greater than theirs is in the classroom,” said Mosely. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Recruitment, retention and relationships\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When school leaders come to Mosely looking to hire Black teachers, her first question might surprise them: “Why do you want a Black teacher at your school?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the reasons for hiring Black teachers may seem obvious to many, there is such a thing as hiring Black teachers for the wrong reason. “People won’t admit it, but underneath the desire it’s really about the management of Black bodies,” said Mosely. “When a Black child gets in trouble, it is often a Black adult who is called upon to address the situation.” Schools often push teachers into roles where their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ThroughOurEyes.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">job is to manage behavior.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mosely notes that Black educators are likely to be deans or be directed to participate on culture and climate committees rather than on instructional leadership teams. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing Black educators as disciplinarians also results in Black teachers getting less support and recognition for their effectiveness when they have a well-behaved classroom. “Schools don’t often pore into Black teachers \u003c/span>in the way that they may other teachers because of the optics of discipline. It seems like everything’s calm, as though a successful classroom is simply students not misbehaving,” she said. Because of their success, these teachers are usually saddled with attending to students with behavioral issues and are left with little time to advance their teaching practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good behavior in B\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack teachers’ classrooms is often indicative of their strong relationships with students, not their skill as disciplinarians. “Researchers talk about this concept of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/marachi/mle/Warm%20Demander%20Article.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">warm demanders,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who are the folks who can tap into the emotional needs of a young person and still have demands of them academically,” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said Mosely. “That phrase ‘warm demander’ is most often associated with Black teachers.” School leaders who intend to hire \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black teachers must be prepared to both support the\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m with professional development and the structures that will allow their effective teaching practices to flourish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mosely uses work by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/john-powell\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at UC\u003c/span> Berkeley to explain why schools need to move\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57280/strategies-for-retaining-teachers-of-color-and-making-schools-more-equitable\"> Black teacher recruitment and retention efforts\u003c/a> beyond inclusion to authentic belongin\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g. “Inclusion means you can get included in what we’re doing,” said Mosely. “Belonging says when I go into that environment, it changes.” This may look like shifting prioritization away from test scores towards relationships, or a willingness to have structures and processes shift in order to accommodate Black teachers’ expertise. “It doesn’t mean that you don’t value assessment, but you’re also going to need to create space to value people,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Healing as professional development \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As evidenced by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/publications/despite-reductions-black-students-and-students-with-disabilities-remain-more-likely-to-experience-suspension\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disproportionate discipline rates \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/survey-of-mostly-white-educators-finds-1-in-5-think-textbooks-accurately-reflect-people-of-color/2020/06\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">curriculum that usually privileges white perspectives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Black students have had to figure out how to navigate a school system that was not created for them to succeed. That was the case when Mosely, as a young student, was bussed from her neighborhood to a mostly white school. “It was painful to go to a predominantly white institution where folks automatically assume that I wasn’t smart enough,” she said. Like Mosely, many Black teachers who remember learning in an unwelcoming and racist school system use their experiences to be better teachers. “Black teachers are focused on the well-being of the whole child and healing from all forms of oppression, which is something that successful Black teachers have had to figure out how to do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though many Black teachers have been able to turn their difficult learning experiences into strong teaching practices, they need to do their own healing in order to become effective educators. “For many Black teachers, you’re dealing with the residual pain of however you navigated the system,” said Mosely. While healing may not seem like it falls under professional development, BTP spends a lot of time helping Black educators unpack experiences of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/yeah-but-theyre-white\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">internalized oppression\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or feelings of inadequacy they might have picked up in the educational system. To Mosely and others at BTP, self and community care as a professional practice enables Black teachers to not burnout and continue to show up better for students. The healing work keeps them from perpetuating a harmful and oftentimes racist system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58909 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2022/01/IMG_7202-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black teachers are the focus of BTP, but Mosely makes it clear that all teachers are in need of healing, whether it’s because becoming a teacher went against your parents expectations or needing to understand the weight and responsibilities of being a teacher with certain identities. “When we think about everyone focusing on healing as part of professional practice, it allows us to move forward with a clearer understanding of who we are and what’s ours to do,” said Mosely, noting that the pandemic and its effect on schools has made the need for healing even greater. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the ways this healing can take place is through participation in affinity groups, or groupings of people with a shared identity. Mosely said that being in affinity groups like Black Teacher Project enables its participants to step outside systemic expectations and allow different practices to emerge. With a sense of purpose, together, they explore their shared experiences, histories and healing practices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though BTP focuses their support on Back teachers, Mosely said that all groupings benefit from affinity groups as long as they have a clear learning and healing agenda. For instance, a white affinity group may learn about the history of white antiracists, how they have come to be called white, and how to heal from the ways they too have been harmed by oppression. “We always talk about oppression as though it only harmed people of color, but white folks have been stripped of their humanity as well,” Mosely said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>MindShift is part of KQED, a non-profit NPR and PBS member station in San Francisco, CA. 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Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow teacher, she’d prepared her students to watch Amanda Gorman’s performance and analyze her words. Other teachers took notice, too, and additional \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2021/01/20/here-are-three-lesson-plans-about-amanda-gormans-share-others/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lesson plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about “The Hill We Climb” circulated online in the following days.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith was glad to see it. “I love what Amanda Gorman did right now for poetry. She just brought it and made it into this huge thing that kids are excited about,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith, who teaches at a public charter school in Huntersville, North Carolina, wants educators to expand their curriculum to include other contemporary poets, too. A few years ago, she started a hashtag, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachlivingpoets&src=typed_query&f=live\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">#TeachLivingPoets\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to encourage the practice. She organizes a monthly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachlivingpoets&src=typed_query&f=live\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter chat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for teachers to exchange ideas. She runs a website, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TeachLivingPoets.com, \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and she recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2020/10/16/pre-order-teachlivingpoets-book/\">book\u003c/a> on the subject. A teacher of 16 years, Smith said teaching living poets can bring new voices to the literary canon and change the dynamics of a classroom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did your students respond to Gorman’s poem?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, my gosh, they loved it. We were all in anticipation for it, and I kind of built it up as like a big deal. And yeah, her poem was so hopeful and also the craft of it, too. Being able to notice the allusions and the metaphors and all those things that we love looking at in English class with poetry. It was such a perfect unison of all the things to enjoy about poetry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why is it important to teach living poets?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not only does it help teachers rejuvenate their passion for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/poetry\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teaching poetry\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it helps the students in so many different ways. Back when, pre-#TeachLivingPoets, I admit I was one of the teachers who stuck pretty much to canonical poetry: Frost, Whitman, Dickinson. And not to say we should not teach those; I think we absolutely should. #TeachLivingPoets is not about closing the door on the canon whatsoever. It’s just about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55039/how-the-disrupttexts-movement-can-help-english-teachers-be-more-inclusive\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opening the door wider\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for more voices, more contemporary voices to come into our classroom space.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It finally offers a lot of students a chance to not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">see themselves reflected in the work that they read\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but to learn, too, often about others who are different than us. Because one of the main focuses of #TeachLivingPoets is to center Black poets, indigenous poets, poets with disabilities, poets in the LGBTQ+ community and these voices that have often just been missing from the canon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What does that look like in practice in your classroom?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to be a teacher who would be up in the front of the room, sage-on-the-stage kind of deal and have students identify what is happening in a line, find the simile in the poem, and ask, ‘What do you think it all means?’ And really what that was doing was making my students not discover the poem for themselves, but to just try to identify the answer that they thought I wanted to hear. What has happened since I started teaching living poets is that I’ve really tried to focus the learning and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/student-centered-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">make it student-centered\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s an example of that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This teacher, Tia Miller, so kindly shared \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2019/01/04/get-your-students-engaged-with-poetry-collections-with-this-hands-on-hexagon-activity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one of my favorite lessons\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you could do it in various different ways. But the way that I do it is you cut out all these hexagons and on each hexagon there’s a title of a poem. So say I teach a full collection, like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rblancopoet\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Blanco’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “How to Love a Country” or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_joseolivarez\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José Olivarez’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “Citizen Illegal” or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clint Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘s “Counting Descent.” So we have this whole collection of poems, and students have to put the hexagons together so that the sides that are touching indicate a connection that they see between those two poems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the discussions that they have when they do this — I’m not doing anything but walking around and just listening with my little teacher heart going gaga over what they’re saying.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’d love to hear some of the memorable moments that have happened through those activities or other activities.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>Smith:\u003c/b> I had a student whose father died the summer before I had him in my senior year AP literature class. It was a really, really, really \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57511/why-helping-grieving-students-heal-matters-so-much\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rough year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Then he got assigned a poem by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kavehakbar.com/#/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaveh Akbar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for this big project that they do for class. My student just felt a connection to Kaveh’s work and it felt like he read it, not with his eyes or his heart, but like, with his spirit, with his soul. I know this sounds so weird, but I’m telling you, this is what poetry can do. Right? It’s the power of poetry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the cool part was at the end of the year when Kaveh Akbar actually \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2018/04/23/school-visit-with-ra-villanueva-kaveh-akbar/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">came to class for a poetry workshop visit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the student got to meet Kaveh and thank him in person just for his work and everything that his work did for him. Since meeting Kaveh, the student has gone on to college and is now a creative writing major and is writing all the time and performing at slams. You can’t do that with Emily Dickinson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlKmNWHKmUk&t=15s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You also have a book now, “\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2020/10/16/pre-order-teachlivingpoets-book/\">Teach Living Poets\u003c/a>,” co-written by Lindsay Illich. And that’s also geared toward educators, right?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, so it’s another resource that lays out the philosophy of why we teach living poets, and why we think it’s so important to teach living poets. But then the book does move into teaching specifically two different collections and lots of ideas for teaching individual poems, ideas for connecting with poets, whether that be through social media or through classroom visits, and becoming a connected educator into the world of poetry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What challenges or hesitations have you noticed among other teachers who are incorporating living poets in their curriculum for the first time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trying something new is very hard and there aren’t a lot of resources out there. So that’s also why I started the website. It’s my favorite when teachers reach out to me and are just so excited about something that they tried. That’s the best. That’s what keeps me going and keeping up with this website is how it’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56836/how-teachers-are-leaning-on-each-other-to-stay-resilient-during-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">helping teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview was edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Teaching poems by living poets can help bring more contemporary perspectives to English class, especially if the student can see themselves reflected in the author. 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A few years ago, she started a hashtag, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachlivingpoets&src=typed_query&f=live\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">#TeachLivingPoets\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to encourage the practice. She organizes a monthly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23teachlivingpoets&src=typed_query&f=live\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter chat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for teachers to exchange ideas. She runs a website, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TeachLivingPoets.com, \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and she recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2020/10/16/pre-order-teachlivingpoets-book/\">book\u003c/a> on the subject. A teacher of 16 years, Smith said teaching living poets can bring new voices to the literary canon and change the dynamics of a classroom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did your students respond to Gorman’s poem?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, my gosh, they loved it. We were all in anticipation for it, and I kind of built it up as like a big deal. And yeah, her poem was so hopeful and also the craft of it, too. Being able to notice the allusions and the metaphors and all those things that we love looking at in English class with poetry. 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And not to say we should not teach those; I think we absolutely should. #TeachLivingPoets is not about closing the door on the canon whatsoever. It’s just about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55039/how-the-disrupttexts-movement-can-help-english-teachers-be-more-inclusive\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opening the door wider\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for more voices, more contemporary voices to come into our classroom space.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It finally offers a lot of students a chance to not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">see themselves reflected in the work that they read\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but to learn, too, often about others who are different than us. Because one of the main focuses of #TeachLivingPoets is to center Black poets, indigenous poets, poets with disabilities, poets in the LGBTQ+ community and these voices that have often just been missing from the canon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What does that look like in practice in your classroom?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to be a teacher who would be up in the front of the room, sage-on-the-stage kind of deal and have students identify what is happening in a line, find the simile in the poem, and ask, ‘What do you think it all means?’ And really what that was doing was making my students not discover the poem for themselves, but to just try to identify the answer that they thought I wanted to hear. What has happened since I started teaching living poets is that I’ve really tried to focus the learning and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/student-centered-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">make it student-centered\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s an example of that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This teacher, Tia Miller, so kindly shared \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2019/01/04/get-your-students-engaged-with-poetry-collections-with-this-hands-on-hexagon-activity/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one of my favorite lessons\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you could do it in various different ways. But the way that I do it is you cut out all these hexagons and on each hexagon there’s a title of a poem. So say I teach a full collection, like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rblancopoet\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Blanco’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “How to Love a Country” or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_joseolivarez\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José Olivarez’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “Citizen Illegal” or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clint Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘s “Counting Descent.” So we have this whole collection of poems, and students have to put the hexagons together so that the sides that are touching indicate a connection that they see between those two poems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the discussions that they have when they do this — I’m not doing anything but walking around and just listening with my little teacher heart going gaga over what they’re saying.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’d love to hear some of the memorable moments that have happened through those activities or other activities.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>Smith:\u003c/b> I had a student whose father died the summer before I had him in my senior year AP literature class. 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It’s the power of poetry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the cool part was at the end of the year when Kaveh Akbar actually \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2018/04/23/school-visit-with-ra-villanueva-kaveh-akbar/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">came to class for a poetry workshop visit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the student got to meet Kaveh and thank him in person just for his work and everything that his work did for him. Since meeting Kaveh, the student has gone on to college and is now a creative writing major and is writing all the time and performing at slams. You can’t do that with Emily Dickinson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/hlKmNWHKmUk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/hlKmNWHKmUk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You also have a book now, “\u003ca href=\"https://teachlivingpoets.com/2020/10/16/pre-order-teachlivingpoets-book/\">Teach Living Poets\u003c/a>,” co-written by Lindsay Illich. And that’s also geared toward educators, right?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, so it’s another resource that lays out the philosophy of why we teach living poets, and why we think it’s so important to teach living poets. But then the book does move into teaching specifically two different collections and lots of ideas for teaching individual poems, ideas for connecting with poets, whether that be through social media or through classroom visits, and becoming a connected educator into the world of poetry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What challenges or hesitations have you noticed among other teachers who are incorporating living poets in their curriculum for the first time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Smith: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trying something new is very hard and there aren’t a lot of resources out there. So that’s also why I started the website. It’s my favorite when teachers reach out to me and are just so excited about something that they tried. That’s the best. That’s what keeps me going and keeping up with this website is how it’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56836/how-teachers-are-leaning-on-each-other-to-stay-resilient-during-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">helping teachers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview was edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57806/how-teaching-the-work-of-living-poets-can-make-english-class-more-exciting-and-inclusive","authors":["11487"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_972","mindshift_20610","mindshift_20701","mindshift_21583","mindshift_21016","mindshift_21431"],"featImg":"mindshift_57809","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57519":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57519","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57519","score":null,"sort":[1615882781000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-school-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse","title":"How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse","publishDate":1615882781,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t magically become gifted,” Wells said. “There was simply someone who had an ability to see my talents and provided a platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells went on to college, became a teacher specializing in gifted education and eventually took on the gifted coordinator role for her hometown school district, aiming to give more students the opportunities she almost missed. “It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. Including, until recently, those in U-46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gifted education has been trying to solve its racism problem for years. The National Association for Gifted Children, or NAGC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nagc.org/blog/next-steps-nagc%E2%80%99s-equity-and-social-justice-initiative\">reaffirmed its commitment\u003c/a> to the issue after the Black Lives Matter protests. The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet diversification efforts have borne little fruit. After analyzing the newest U.S. Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46 is a bright point, a sign that change can happen. West of Chicago, it is Illinois’ second-largest district, with about 40,000 students. In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/5/district/32942/summary\">according to federal data\u003c/a>, whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. By 2017-18, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/district/32942/giftedtalentedenrollment\">the most recent data available\u003c/a>, the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The percentage of white gifted students, 25, was actually a hair lower than their representation in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened between 2009 and 2018? Hispanic parents sued, and a federal court decree gave Wells a cudgel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Association for Gifted Children has made a point of working on racial diversity. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. \u003ccite>(Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several Hispanic and Black families, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed a federal class-action suit in 2005 that accused the district of discriminating against Hispanic students in school assignments, school closures and ELL services. They later added gifted education to the list of alleged discriminatory practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, teachers recommended students for gifted classes. Invited students had to come to school on a Saturday morning to take an achievement test that favored children with strong verbal skills and score in the top 8 percent of that test to gain entry, according to legal filings. In the 2006-07 school year, only five of the 231 students who entered the program were Hispanic, and only two were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 761px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-57523 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1.png 761w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1-160x108.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57524\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 869px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"869\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2.png 869w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-800x543.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-160x109.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-768x521.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. That program was bilingual, with different entrance requirements, including an achievement test given in Spanish. The district said that these students weren’t fluent enough in English to succeed in ordinary gifted ed — even though none qualified as an English language learner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-superintendent José Torres had not designed the bilingual gifted program, but he thought it was a great strategy to give Latino students access to advanced work. He grew up in a Spanish-speaking home, and “was in a special-ed classroom because I didn’t speak English,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit dragged on for eight years and included a 27-day trial. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory. “Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591469e6add7b049342e06a8\">his 2013 decision\u003c/a>. He ordered the district to make its gifted admissions policies fair to students of all races and eliminate the separate class for Hispanic kids. If a child needed language support, he said, put them in the general gifted class with language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district settled without admitting guilt, paying the plaintiffs $2.5 million for legal costs, according to legal filings, and signed an agreement to follow through on the judge’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was the biggest legal development for gifted education in a generation, NAGC board president Jonathan Plucker says. Gettleman’s decision “sent shock waves through the field, because everyone thought these types of programs were the right thing to do to try to address equity problems,” Plucker, who is white, said of the bilingual gifted program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres felt disgruntled about the lawsuit — gifted education in his district, he pointed out, was no more racially segregated than “99 percent of all districts.” However, he saw the legal challenge as an opportunity to make real change. He said that “there’s always resistance from what I call the elite … who think that gifted children look a particular way.” He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. In fact, Wells helped write the legal settlement, hoping that it would begin to address not only the symptoms of inequality, but also the cause: centuries of white supremacy. Even well-meaning teachers had “thought patterns, values, and beliefs that interfere with identifying and serving diverse learners in gifted education,” she wrote in her book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was wrong with the kids, in other words. The problem was with the system. And it required a multifaceted solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district stripped away the barriers to entry that favored families with money and know-how. Now, rather than testing only those students that teachers recommended, the district considers every third and sixth grader for gifted classes. Students take the CogAT, a cognitive abilities test that measures reasoning ability, during the school day, so that parents don’t have to bring their children in on a weekend. The district triangulates those results with scores from the popular Measure of Academic Progress achievement test and a teacher checklist the \u003ca href=\"http://gctminds.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/6/3/19639473/rogers--tils.pdf\">Teacher Inventory of Learning Strengths\u003c/a>, and students are evaluated against other kids in their school, not the entire district or a national sample that’s heavy on privileged kids. Parents may still request that their children be considered to be allowed to skip a grade or sit in on particular subjects in higher grades, opportunities that are required by Illinois law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iagcgifted.org/IL-Acceleration-Act#:~:text=This%20Accelerated%20Placement%20Act%20requires,and%20opportunities%20for%20%E2%80%9Cwhole%20grade%E2%80%9D\">according to the Illinois Association for Gifted Children\u003c/a>; to make those decisions, the district uses the Iowa Acceleration Scale, Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because experts say that even tests that purport to measure native ability in fact measure exposure to learning opportunities —scores improve with practice, and savvy parents know to prepare their kids — the district also instituted weekly “talent development” lessons to cultivate all students’ creative and analytical thinking in second and third grade in all its low-income schools. While there’s still a Spanish-language gifted option, now it’s part of a two-way, dual-language immersion program, a practice that has become popular with white parents nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-57520 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. \u003ccite>(Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the specific policy changes, the district realized that educating its employees and the public was also important. “Anytime there’s been a perceived removal of privilege, there’s a challenge,” Wells said. To preempt resistance to changes that will open up gifted seats to a more diverse group of students, she argues, you have to convince everyone, or just about everyone, that it is a good idea. “You’re moving the entire community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped that the district expanded the number of seats in gifted classes, so that it wasn’t a zero-sum game. “There’s not a single thing we’ve done that’s taken seats away,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Wells said. “We still serve the students who demonstrate the need for this kind of programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46 also now trains teachers on anti-racism; requires all elementary gifted teachers to become certified in English as a second language; and has all teachers and administrators take an in-depth, 45-hour \u003ca href=\"https://www.iagcgifted.org/event-3068779\">course on giftedness\u003c/a>. The district invites parents and teachers to activities such as the annual conferences of two Illinois gifted education groups. This February, ten administrators, 19 teachers and four parents attended the Illinois Association for Gifted Children’s Equity and Inclusion virtual summit, U-46 spokeswoman Mary Fergus said. Presenters included Peters and Wells herself, who talked about moving people from “courageous conversations” to “courageous actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day last fall in U-46, Ed Chau’s Horizon Elementary gifted fifth graders met on Zoom to discuss their “Genius Hour” projects — investigations into topics of their own choosing. The children’s screen names were often fanciful, such as “🧀 Mr. cheese is back!!!,” and Chau, a former architect, addressed them as such: “What about you, Potato?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children’s topics included the extermination of the dinosaurs, helping parents around the house, the use of Legos to increase imagination and how cheetahs run so fast. “Mr. cheese” presented Google Slides on echolocation. “I haven’t finished dolphins,” he apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students encouraged each other to go beyond parroting research, to analyze and draw new conclusions. “Take it to the next level,” one student chimed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chau is the child of Cambodian immigrants; like Wells, he grew up in U-46. Teachers always gave him accelerated work, but he was never identified as gifted. Diversity “really is a great advantage” in gifted classrooms, Chau said. It gives his students the ability to relate to each other and see things from different viewpoints. (Horizon’s gifted program is diverse, although not quite at the level of the rest of the district, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/school/279490/giftedtalentedenrollment\">federal data show\u003c/a>s — the program is 47 percent white, 4 percent Black, and 18 percent Hispanic in a school that is 33 percent white, 10 percent Black and 35 percent Hispanic.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46’s diversity work is not over. “We continue to push the bounds, we continue to try to innovate,” Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning Josh Carpenter said in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture. The board’s “\u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/il/u46/Board.nsf/files/BQHRS46F21A7/%24file/Board%20Resolution%20and%20Call%20to%20Action%20for%20Equity_Version%202.pdf\">Call to Action for Equity\u003c/a>,” written in June, commits to “remedying any practices that lead to under-representation of students of color in programs such as gifted programs, honors academies, and advanced placement courses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will include the reinvention of Elgin High’s Gifted and Talented Academy program, according to a September presentation to the school board. As of 2017-18, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/school/279484/summary\">per federal data\u003c/a>, Elgin High’s gifted students were 37 percent white, 28 percent Hispanic and 3 percent Black in an overall student body that was 10 percent white, 74 percent Hispanic and 7 percent Black. (The high school magnet was not connected to the elementary and middle school gifted classes.) Until this year, applicants to the program had to submit an essay and teacher recommendations and take what the district brochure called an “Elgin High Academy Test” — in fact, the CogAT. The program consisted largely of Advanced Placement classes, which other Elgin High students could take as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Gifted and Talented Academy is becoming the International Baccalaureate Academy. The new application requires only recommendations and a 2.0 GPA. Priority goes to low-income and homeless students as well as to people living nearby, siblings of those in the program and students who have taken advanced math, speech, engineering-like classes such as robotics or an array of extracurriculars including video game club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will the demographics of our [high school magnet] programs change overnight? No, that is not likely. We need to work to provide more support and opportunities for students at earlier grades,” Superintendent Tony Sanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.u-46.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=2913&ModuleInstanceID=9374&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=55641&PageID=3510\">wrote on the district’s website\u003c/a>. “However, if we all believe that all students in U-46 should have access … and if we believe that every child will rise to the level of our expectations, then why would we perpetuate a system that we have identified as an artificial barrier for some children, particularly students of color?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can other districts push the changes necessary to diversify gifted education without a lawsuit? “This is a really hard question,” Peters said. “When I think about places that have made big changes or have at least given this topic their attention, it’s been because of a state complaint, lawsuit, et cetera. It’s rarely been because it in itself has been a priority for a district.” That said, “there’s nothing about it that can’t be done absent a lawsuit, but I think schools just have so many other things that are demanding their attention that … equity within gifted ed doesn’t rise to the top.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any school system can fix gifted inequity if they believe “that all children deserve to learn in an environment that matches their talents and abilities,” Wells said. Just about every district has an equity plan, she pointed out, and gifted education should be part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Baltimore City school district, twice as large as U-46, now also screens all kids for gifted services; measures kids against their peers, not against a white, privileged norm; and has nearly quadrupled its number of gifted seats. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/8/district/26918/giftedtalentedenrollment\">2015\u003c/a> to 28 percent in \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/district/26918/giftedtalentedenrollment\">2017\u003c/a>, according to federal data. New York City has chosen to address inequity by simply ending testing for its gifted elementary school program altogether, and Seattle is considering phasing out gifted classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is now president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), a residential public magnet high school for grades 10 through 12. Applicants must have taken the SATs, but there are no minimum scores. “Absolutely,” districts can diversify gifted education without a lawsuit, he said. From 2017 to 2021, under his leadership, the school increased its percentage of Black and Latino students from 15 to 22 percent, and of students from culturally, linguistically and economically diverse backgrounds from 31 to 35 percent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His email signature says, “Have you experienced racism, microaggressions, or bias at IMSA? Report it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has a reminder for other superintendents who think diversifying gifted education is too hard to fix or not important enough to prioritize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t wait to be sued,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/an-illinois-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse/\">\u003cem>gifted students\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003cem>The Hechinger Report\u003c/em>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>Hechinger’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Correction: This story was corrected to more accurately describe how students were chosen for gifted testing before the lawsuit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gifted education has been trying to solve its racism problem for years. The National Association for Gifted Children reaffirmed its commitment after the Black Lives Matter protests this spring and summer. Illinois’s U-46 school district is a bright point, a sign that change can happen. How did they do it?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1616082195,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2828},"headData":{"title":"How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse - MindShift","description":"Gifted education has been trying to solve its racism problem for years. The National Association for Gifted Children reaffirmed its commitment after the Black Lives Matter protests this spring and summer. Illinois’s U-46 school district is a bright point, a sign that change can happen. 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But can others do it with just carrots and no sticks?","path":"/mindshift/57519/how-a-school-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t magically become gifted,” Wells said. “There was simply someone who had an ability to see my talents and provided a platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells went on to college, became a teacher specializing in gifted education and eventually took on the gifted coordinator role for her hometown school district, aiming to give more students the opportunities she almost missed. “It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve\u003cem>,\u003c/em>” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. Including, until recently, those in U-46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gifted education has been trying to solve its racism problem for years. The National Association for Gifted Children, or NAGC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nagc.org/blog/next-steps-nagc%E2%80%99s-equity-and-social-justice-initiative\">reaffirmed its commitment\u003c/a> to the issue after the Black Lives Matter protests. The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet diversification efforts have borne little fruit. After analyzing the newest U.S. Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46 is a bright point, a sign that change can happen. West of Chicago, it is Illinois’ second-largest district, with about 40,000 students. In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/5/district/32942/summary\">according to federal data\u003c/a>, whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. By 2017-18, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/district/32942/giftedtalentedenrollment\">the most recent data available\u003c/a>, the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The percentage of white gifted students, 25, was actually a hair lower than their representation in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened between 2009 and 2018? Hispanic parents sued, and a federal court decree gave Wells a cudgel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-2-scaled-e1615878124759-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Association for Gifted Children has made a point of working on racial diversity. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. \u003ccite>(Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several Hispanic and Black families, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed a federal class-action suit in 2005 that accused the district of discriminating against Hispanic students in school assignments, school closures and ELL services. They later added gifted education to the list of alleged discriminatory practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, teachers recommended students for gifted classes. Invited students had to come to school on a Saturday morning to take an achievement test that favored children with strong verbal skills and score in the top 8 percent of that test to gain entry, according to legal filings. In the 2006-07 school year, only five of the 231 students who entered the program were Hispanic, and only two were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 761px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-57523 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1.png 761w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-chart-1-160x108.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57524\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 869px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"869\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2.png 869w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-800x543.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-160x109.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Dreilinger-Chart-2-768x521.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. That program was bilingual, with different entrance requirements, including an achievement test given in Spanish. The district said that these students weren’t fluent enough in English to succeed in ordinary gifted ed — even though none qualified as an English language learner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-superintendent José Torres had not designed the bilingual gifted program, but he thought it was a great strategy to give Latino students access to advanced work. He grew up in a Spanish-speaking home, and “was in a special-ed classroom because I didn’t speak English,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit dragged on for eight years and included a 27-day trial. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory. “Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591469e6add7b049342e06a8\">his 2013 decision\u003c/a>. He ordered the district to make its gifted admissions policies fair to students of all races and eliminate the separate class for Hispanic kids. If a child needed language support, he said, put them in the general gifted class with language support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district settled without admitting guilt, paying the plaintiffs $2.5 million for legal costs, according to legal filings, and signed an agreement to follow through on the judge’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was the biggest legal development for gifted education in a generation, NAGC board president Jonathan Plucker says. Gettleman’s decision “sent shock waves through the field, because everyone thought these types of programs were the right thing to do to try to address equity problems,” Plucker, who is white, said of the bilingual gifted program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres felt disgruntled about the lawsuit — gifted education in his district, he pointed out, was no more racially segregated than “99 percent of all districts.” However, he saw the legal challenge as an opportunity to make real change. He said that “there’s always resistance from what I call the elite … who think that gifted children look a particular way.” He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. In fact, Wells helped write the legal settlement, hoping that it would begin to address not only the symptoms of inequality, but also the cause: centuries of white supremacy. Even well-meaning teachers had “thought patterns, values, and beliefs that interfere with identifying and serving diverse learners in gifted education,” she wrote in her book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing was wrong with the kids, in other words. The problem was with the system. And it required a multifaceted solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district stripped away the barriers to entry that favored families with money and know-how. Now, rather than testing only those students that teachers recommended, the district considers every third and sixth grader for gifted classes. Students take the CogAT, a cognitive abilities test that measures reasoning ability, during the school day, so that parents don’t have to bring their children in on a weekend. The district triangulates those results with scores from the popular Measure of Academic Progress achievement test and a teacher checklist the \u003ca href=\"http://gctminds.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/6/3/19639473/rogers--tils.pdf\">Teacher Inventory of Learning Strengths\u003c/a>, and students are evaluated against other kids in their school, not the entire district or a national sample that’s heavy on privileged kids. Parents may still request that their children be considered to be allowed to skip a grade or sit in on particular subjects in higher grades, opportunities that are required by Illinois law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iagcgifted.org/IL-Acceleration-Act#:~:text=This%20Accelerated%20Placement%20Act%20requires,and%20opportunities%20for%20%E2%80%9Cwhole%20grade%E2%80%9D\">according to the Illinois Association for Gifted Children\u003c/a>; to make those decisions, the district uses the Iowa Acceleration Scale, Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because experts say that even tests that purport to measure native ability in fact measure exposure to learning opportunities —scores improve with practice, and savvy parents know to prepare their kids — the district also instituted weekly “talent development” lessons to cultivate all students’ creative and analytical thinking in second and third grade in all its low-income schools. While there’s still a Spanish-language gifted option, now it’s part of a two-way, dual-language immersion program, a practice that has become popular with white parents nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-57520 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/dreilinger-gifted-1-scaled-e1615878075718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. \u003ccite>(Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the specific policy changes, the district realized that educating its employees and the public was also important. “Anytime there’s been a perceived removal of privilege, there’s a challenge,” Wells said. To preempt resistance to changes that will open up gifted seats to a more diverse group of students, she argues, you have to convince everyone, or just about everyone, that it is a good idea. “You’re moving the entire community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped that the district expanded the number of seats in gifted classes, so that it wasn’t a zero-sum game. “There’s not a single thing we’ve done that’s taken seats away,\u003cem>” \u003c/em>Wells said. “We still serve the students who demonstrate the need for this kind of programming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46 also now trains teachers on anti-racism; requires all elementary gifted teachers to become certified in English as a second language; and has all teachers and administrators take an in-depth, 45-hour \u003ca href=\"https://www.iagcgifted.org/event-3068779\">course on giftedness\u003c/a>. The district invites parents and teachers to activities such as the annual conferences of two Illinois gifted education groups. This February, ten administrators, 19 teachers and four parents attended the Illinois Association for Gifted Children’s Equity and Inclusion virtual summit, U-46 spokeswoman Mary Fergus said. Presenters included Peters and Wells herself, who talked about moving people from “courageous conversations” to “courageous actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day last fall in U-46, Ed Chau’s Horizon Elementary gifted fifth graders met on Zoom to discuss their “Genius Hour” projects — investigations into topics of their own choosing. The children’s screen names were often fanciful, such as “🧀 Mr. cheese is back!!!,” and Chau, a former architect, addressed them as such: “What about you, Potato?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children’s topics included the extermination of the dinosaurs, helping parents around the house, the use of Legos to increase imagination and how cheetahs run so fast. “Mr. cheese” presented Google Slides on echolocation. “I haven’t finished dolphins,” he apologized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students encouraged each other to go beyond parroting research, to analyze and draw new conclusions. “Take it to the next level,” one student chimed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chau is the child of Cambodian immigrants; like Wells, he grew up in U-46. Teachers always gave him accelerated work, but he was never identified as gifted. Diversity “really is a great advantage” in gifted classrooms, Chau said. It gives his students the ability to relate to each other and see things from different viewpoints. (Horizon’s gifted program is diverse, although not quite at the level of the rest of the district, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/school/279490/giftedtalentedenrollment\">federal data show\u003c/a>s — the program is 47 percent white, 4 percent Black, and 18 percent Hispanic in a school that is 33 percent white, 10 percent Black and 35 percent Hispanic.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U-46’s diversity work is not over. “We continue to push the bounds, we continue to try to innovate,” Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning Josh Carpenter said in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture. The board’s “\u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/il/u46/Board.nsf/files/BQHRS46F21A7/%24file/Board%20Resolution%20and%20Call%20to%20Action%20for%20Equity_Version%202.pdf\">Call to Action for Equity\u003c/a>,” written in June, commits to “remedying any practices that lead to under-representation of students of color in programs such as gifted programs, honors academies, and advanced placement courses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will include the reinvention of Elgin High’s Gifted and Talented Academy program, according to a September presentation to the school board. As of 2017-18, \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/school/279484/summary\">per federal data\u003c/a>, Elgin High’s gifted students were 37 percent white, 28 percent Hispanic and 3 percent Black in an overall student body that was 10 percent white, 74 percent Hispanic and 7 percent Black. (The high school magnet was not connected to the elementary and middle school gifted classes.) Until this year, applicants to the program had to submit an essay and teacher recommendations and take what the district brochure called an “Elgin High Academy Test” — in fact, the CogAT. The program consisted largely of Advanced Placement classes, which other Elgin High students could take as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Gifted and Talented Academy is becoming the International Baccalaureate Academy. The new application requires only recommendations and a 2.0 GPA. Priority goes to low-income and homeless students as well as to people living nearby, siblings of those in the program and students who have taken advanced math, speech, engineering-like classes such as robotics or an array of extracurriculars including video game club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will the demographics of our [high school magnet] programs change overnight? No, that is not likely. We need to work to provide more support and opportunities for students at earlier grades,” Superintendent Tony Sanders \u003ca href=\"https://www.u-46.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=2913&ModuleInstanceID=9374&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=55641&PageID=3510\">wrote on the district’s website\u003c/a>. “However, if we all believe that all students in U-46 should have access … and if we believe that every child will rise to the level of our expectations, then why would we perpetuate a system that we have identified as an artificial barrier for some children, particularly students of color?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can other districts push the changes necessary to diversify gifted education without a lawsuit? “This is a really hard question,” Peters said. “When I think about places that have made big changes or have at least given this topic their attention, it’s been because of a state complaint, lawsuit, et cetera. It’s rarely been because it in itself has been a priority for a district.” That said, “there’s nothing about it that can’t be done absent a lawsuit, but I think schools just have so many other things that are demanding their attention that … equity within gifted ed doesn’t rise to the top.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any school system can fix gifted inequity if they believe “that all children deserve to learn in an environment that matches their talents and abilities,” Wells said. Just about every district has an equity plan, she pointed out, and gifted education should be part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Baltimore City school district, twice as large as U-46, now also screens all kids for gifted services; measures kids against their peers, not against a white, privileged norm; and has nearly quadrupled its number of gifted seats. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/8/district/26918/giftedtalentedenrollment\">2015\u003c/a> to 28 percent in \u003ca href=\"https://ocrdata.ed.gov/profile/9/district/26918/giftedtalentedenrollment\">2017\u003c/a>, according to federal data. New York City has chosen to address inequity by simply ending testing for its gifted elementary school program altogether, and Seattle is considering phasing out gifted classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is now president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), a residential public magnet high school for grades 10 through 12. Applicants must have taken the SATs, but there are no minimum scores. “Absolutely,” districts can diversify gifted education without a lawsuit, he said. From 2017 to 2021, under his leadership, the school increased its percentage of Black and Latino students from 15 to 22 percent, and of students from culturally, linguistically and economically diverse backgrounds from 31 to 35 percent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His email signature says, “Have you experienced racism, microaggressions, or bias at IMSA? Report it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has a reminder for other superintendents who think diversifying gifted education is too hard to fix or not important enough to prioritize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t wait to be sued,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/an-illinois-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse/\">\u003cem>gifted students\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003cem>The Hechinger Report\u003c/em>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>Hechinger’s newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Correction: This story was corrected to more accurately describe how students were chosen for gifted testing before the lawsuit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57519/how-a-school-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse","authors":["byline_mindshift_57519"],"categories":["mindshift_21357"],"tags":["mindshift_21322","mindshift_20610","mindshift_20701","mindshift_20555"],"featImg":"mindshift_57522","label":"mindshift"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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