Leading Equity

About Myron Dueck

Over the past 22 years, Myron has gained teaching and administrative experience in both Canada and New Zealand in subjects ranging from grades 4 to 12.  Beginning in 2006, Myron developed a number of grading, assessment and reporting systems with his classes in which students have greater opportunity to show what they understand, adapt to the feedback they receive and play a significant role in the reporting of that learning.  Myron has been a part of administrative teams, district groups, school committees and governmental bodies that have further broadened his access to innovative ideas.  Myron has shared his stories, tools and first-hand experiences with public, charter and international school educators around the world, and recently his presentations have diverged to include global education trends and broader socio-economic realities that impact learning. Myron has twice been published in EL Magazine. His best-selling book, Grading Smarter, Not Harder– Assessment Strategies that Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn was released by ASCD in July 2014 and in 2015 ASCD released a video project based in his own school district entitled ‘Smarter Assessment in the Secondary Classroom’. In 2019, ASCD released the first of a three-part online streaming series, hosted by Myron, looking at how we include students in assessment. The series includes John Hattie, Lorin Anderson, Celeste Kidd and more. 

Myron lives in Summerland, BC, CANADA with his wife and two children and is Vice-Principal for Communicating Student Learning in his local school district – Okangan-Skaha 67.

Show Highlights

• Problems with penalties
• The impact of penalties on student learning
• Alternatives to penalties

Connect with Myron

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @myrondueck

Website: www.myrondueck.com

Additional Resources

Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn

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About Sheldon L. Eakins, Ph.D.

Sheldon L. Eakins, Ph.D. is the Director of the Leading Equity Center and host of the Leading Equity Podcast. With over 11 years in education, he has served as a teacher, principal, and Director of Special Education.

Dr. Eakins has a passion for helping educators accomplish equitable practices in their schools. He has earned a B.S. degree in Social Science Education, a M.S. degree in Educational Leadership, and a Ph.D. in K-12 Education.

Show Highlights

• Who is Sheldon Eakins?
• The origin of the Leading Equity Podcast
• Eakins’ inspirations
• The show’s greatest challenges and milestones
• What makes Leading Equity unique
• The future of Leading Equity
• Another side of Dr. Eakins
• Final word of advice

Connect with Sheldon

Twitter: @sheldoneakins

Email: sheldon@leadingequitycenter.com

Website: www.leadingequitycenter.com

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About Kiese Vita, M.A.

Kiese Vita is a high school English teacher serving in the community of South Los Angeles.  Within her decade of experience as a social justice educator, Kiese has served as a district Professional Development Leader, school-site Department Chair, and lecturer for California State University, Northridge’s Child and Adolescent Development course titled “Race, Gender, Privilege, Ethnicity, and Culture.” Combining her professional experiences with her foundation in Rhetoric and Composition Theory, Kiese’s pedagogical praxis centers on cultivating a humanizing framework that (re)store Black scholars' Educational Excellence, by dismantling and healing the deep harm and effect of stereotype threat, schooling trauma, and internalized miseducation that Black scholars have generationally embodied and (re)stored.

Show Highlights

• AP Afro Warrior Scholar Class
• Critical Pedagogy Framework
• Using the Afro Warrior Framework
• Benefits to using the Afro Warrior Framework

Connect with Kiese

Email: [email protected]

IG: @afrowarriorscholar

Additional Resources

Afro Warrior Scholar

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About Nury Castillo Crawford

Nury Castillo Crawford, mother of three sons, life-long educator for over 20 years, owner of 1010 Publishing, and a published author. She was born in Peru, South America and emigrated to the United States when she was ten years old. She attended Florida A&M University, where she attained a B.S. and M.S. degrees. Her company 1010 Publishing specializes in publishing literary creations in a bilingual dissemination. She is currently a Director of Academic Support for Gwinnett County Public Schools, where she has broke ground by implementing a Hispanic Mentoring Program, the first of its kind in the school district.

Show Highlights

• Who is Nury Crawford?
• Preparing to move to the United States
• Challenges with adjusting to a new country
• A rememberable math experience
• English language acquisition during recess
• When a teacher has high expectations for all of their students
• 3,585 Miles to be an American Girl

Connect with Nury

Twitter: @RINunuCC

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.1010publishing.com

Additional Resources

3,585 Miles to be an American Girl

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About Amy Samuels, Ed.D.

Amy Samuels is an assistant professor at the University of Montevallo in Alabama where she teaches in the Instructional Leadership and Teacher Leadership programs. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education Social Studies, with a minor in Black Studies, from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Later, she earned both her master’s and doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of South Florida where she specialized in curriculum policy and development, Critical Race Theory, and practices for fostering equitable schools. Regarding research, Dr. Samuels’ professional publications in journals and book chapters align with the topics of educational justice, culturally responsive pedagogy, and race and racism. She has delivered multiple presentations at national and international conferences such as the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), American Educational Researchers’ Association (AERA), and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) on topics related to racially just schools, culturally responsive teaching, and strategies for creating inclusive classrooms. Her recent work includes Champions of Equity: Fostering Civic Education to Challenge Silence, Racial Inequity, and Injustice (Multicultural Perspectives, 2019), The Revolution Will be Live: Examining Educational (In)Justice through the Lens of Black Lives Matter (Journal of Educational Controversy, 2018), and Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Teachers’ Perspectives of Fostering Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (The SRATE Journal, 2018). She can be contacted at [email protected]

Show Highlights

• Cultural disconnects between teachers and students
• Creating better cultural connections between teachers and students of color
• Fostering an equitable and inclusive classroom
• Tool 1: Knowledge of self
• Tool 2: Know your students
• Tool 3: Integrate student’s cultures and communities into the instruction
• Tool 4: Promote disruptive discourse

Connect with Amy

Email: [email protected]

Additional Resources

Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Teachers' Perspectives on Fostering Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms

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For professional development visit: www.leadingequitycenter.com

About Muhammad Khalifa, Ph.D.

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa is the Robert H. Beck Professor of Ideas in Education at the University of Minnesota. Formerly a school leader, he is now a leading expert on culturally responsive school leadership and anti-oppressive education. Through the newly established Culturally Responsive School leadership Institute, he helps school leaders work with communities to promote schools that look deeper than "achievement gaps," and more at the humanization of students in school. He has worked with heads of governments and schools in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to reform education, but is most noted for his work in urban and suburban school districts across the U.S. He leads equity reform in schools by performing Equity Audits, and helps districts use equity audits to close gaps and promote the humanization of minoritized youth.

Show Highlights

• Culturally Responsive School Leadership
• Why it’s so important to have culturally responsive school leaders
• Ways school leaders can support students of color
• Getting started with culturally responsive school leadership
• Three ways teachers can use meditation in their classroom

Connect with Muhammad

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @SchoolEquityPro

Additional Resources

Culturally Responsive School Leadership

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www.leadingequitycenter.com

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About Stephanie Cariaga, Ph.D.

Stephanie Cariaga has served the Los Angeles community for over 13 years as a high school English teacher, a founding member of the People’s Education Movement Los Angeles, and currently as an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Stephanie completed her award-winning doctorate at UCLA, which is titled Pedagogies of Wholeness: Cultivating Critical Literacies with Students of Color in an Embodied English Classroom. Her work explores how students of color navigate and overcome violence and oppression, and how teachers develop literacy interventions that are trauma/healing-informed and culturally-responsive, while maintaining a sustainable teaching practice through self/collective care. 

Show Highlights

• Pedagogy of Mind, Body, and Spirit
• Showing emotions as a person of color
• Helping students with self-recovery
• An example of helping a student with self-recovery
• Three ways teachers can use meditation in their classroom

Connect with Stephanie

Email: [email protected]

Additional Resources

Research As Healing

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