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Teaching for Equity in Complex Times - Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School (Hardcover)
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Teaching for Equity in Complex Times - Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School (Hardcover)
Series: Muliticultural Education Series
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In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it
can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments
to equity minded instruction while meeting the demands of new
educational policies, including national standards. This book
details how one school integrated equity pedagogy into
standards-based curriculum and produced exemplary levels of
achievement. As the authors illustrate, however, the school's dual
commitment to bilingual education and standards-based reform
engendered numerous complex tensions. Specifically, the authors
describe teachers' attempts to balance demands for rigor and
content coverage within their high-performing school and with their
diverse student population. They identify specific tensions that
emerged, concerning: The degree of academic struggle that is
generative for student learning, and the point at which such
struggle becomes counterproductive. The holding of high
expectations for all learners and the provision of differentiated,
student-centered learning experiences. The CCSS emphasis on
engaging students around more complex text and the contested
determination of what constitutes complexity in text and in
teaching. The influence of high-stakes accountability on school
norms and practices, including teachers' interpretations and
enactment of new national standards. The performance pressures
placed on teachers in today's educational policy context. This
timely book illustrates what can happen when a school's teachers
embrace equity pedagogy while navigating policy-related pressures.
It offers a cogent counternarrative to traditional accounts of
standards-based reform, especially for emerging bilingual students.
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