Democracy and equity
The school should demonstrate non-discriminatory and inclusive policies, practices, and pedagogies. It should model democratic practices that involve all who are directly affected by the school. The school should honor diversity and build on the strength of its communities, deliberately and explicitly challenging all forms of inequity.
La Escuela debe demonstrar politicas, practicas y pedagoggia incluyentes y no discriminatorias. La escuela debe modelar practicas democraticas que involucren a todos aqullos a quienes afecta directamente. La escuelas debe respetar la diversidad y construir sobre la base de las capacidades de sus comunidades, a la vez que en forma deliberada y explicita desafia todo forma de desigualdad.
This video is part of the CES EssentialVisions DVD series
Related Benchmarks
- Access, Opportunity, and Post-Secondary Preparation
- Continuous School Improvement
- Culture of Fairness and Trust
- Maximizing resources for equitable outcomes
- Professional Learning Community
- Transformational Leadership
- Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
- Differentiated Instruction
Resources
- Sustaining Change: The Struggle to Maintain Identity at Central Park East Secondary School Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS) in East Harlem was one of the most highly acclaimed and successful schools to come out of the period of school reform in the 1980s from which the Coalition… December 02, 2009 by Dianne Suiter, Deborah Meier – sustainability
- Ten by Ten: Essential Schools That Exemplify the Ten Common Principles 1 2 3 4 5 6 ref=”#7″>7 8 9 10 Schools play out the Coalition’s Ten Common… April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – The Change Process, Democratic Practice, Common Principles
- Linchpins or Lost Time: Creating Effective Advisories That advisories in secondary schools are fairly pervasive around the country may be one of the great unintended consequences of the Coalition of Essential Schools reform effort. While no CES Common… December 02, 2009 by Bil Johnson – advisories
- Behavior in a Thoughtful School: The Principle of Decency Sidebar:A Model for Student Decision Making How people in a school behave to each other – in classrooms, halls, central office and faculty lounge – sets a tone that has profound effects on what… April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Classroom Culture
- Democratic Leadership in Coalition Schools: Why It’s Necessary, How It Works No individual has all the skills–and certainly not the time–to carry out all the complex tasks of contemporary leadership. –John Gardner, On Leadership Coalition principles… May 14, 2002 by Jill Davidson – Governance, Democratic Practice
- Benchmark Descriptors: Culturally Responsive Pedagogies Culturally Responsive Pedagogies Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and… October 05, 2009 by CES – Benchmark
- Benchmark Descriptors: Habits of Mind and Heart Habits of Mind and Heart The school should focus on helping young people learn to use their minds well. Habits of mind and heart are ways that a school can articulate the thinking and… October 05, 2009
- Empowering Students: Essential Schools’ Missing Link Sidebars:Stages of Student EmpowermentAn Advisory Plan that Involves Students in Setting Standards Coaching Students to Assess How They Are DoingWhat a Democratic Education Looks LikeIn Their Own… April 22, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Governance, Small Learning Communities, Democratic Practice, Developing Leaders
- Democracy and Equity: CES’s Tenth Common Principle Sidebars: Equity and Action: Some Prompts for TeachersWho Gets to Learn: The Sorry Statistics Characteristics of the Anti-Racist Leader You Get What You Expect: Teacher Expectations Making… April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Governance, Heterogeneous Grouping, Democratic Practice
- Horace’s Legacy: Learning with Purpose, A Proposal to Add Two New Common Principles “Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.” -Anonymous There’s a story told about a farmer from Nebraska. It seems that every year the farmer grew amazing,… December 02, 2009 by Joe Greenberg – Common Principles
- Ted Sizer’s Opening Remarks, Fall Forum 2000, Providence, Rhode Island Note from the editor: Most Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forums have opened with remarks from CES’s founder, Ted Size. Ted’s observations reconnected us with our purpose and… December 02, 2009 by Theodore Sizer – Ted Sizer, Common Principles
- Distance Learning and the CES Common Principles Sometimes our classroom is quiet. You might hear the tapping of the computer keys and an occasional chuckle or a sigh. Two or three students sit at separate tables; one is focused on the laptop… July 21, 2009 by Jennie Hallisey – Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
- The Value of Core Principles in the Age of Change As I reflect on CES and its groundbreaking, significant work over the past 25 years, I am regularly reminded of the importance of the core guiding principles, even as the educational landscape… December 02, 2009 by Adelric McCain – Common Principles
- Oakland’s Community Propels Change for Equity Anger and bereavement, throughout history, have provided the engine for relentless struggles for change. -Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder “There were more than 1,400 kids in my daughter’s school…. July 30, 2002 by Jill Davidson – Community Collaboration, Small Learning Communities
- In the Company of Teachers Every one of us in the Coalition remembers the first time we met Ted Sizer. For me, it was at a small meeting of teachers in Georgia where Ted had shown up to see what they were doing in their… December 02, 2009 by George Wood – Ted Sizer
- Always There Everybody seems to have a short memory, which is why we keep making mistakes in this country. This is supposed to be why we study history. The history of the education reform movement from the 1960s… December 02, 2009 by Dennis Littky – Ted Sizer
- New Jersey Coalition Schools: Compelled to Collaborate What happens when schools are compelled by external district or state mandates to adopt a democratic leadership structure–as is happening in mandated reform efforts nationwide–rather… May 14, 2002 by Jill Davidson – The Change Process