Waubonsee Community College

Reaching and teaching students in poverty, strategies for erasing the opportunity gap, Paul C. Gorski

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

non fiction

Reaching and teaching students in poverty

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1001968505

Paul C. Gorski

Multicultural Education Series

strategies for erasing the opportunity gap

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. The Second Edition features two new chapters--"Embracing a Structural View of Poverty and Education: Ditching Deficit Ideology and Quitting Grit" and "Cultivating School Change through Equity Literacy: Commitments and Strategies for School and District Leaders"--Plus extensive revisions throughout based on newly available research and lessons from the author's professional development work. Gorski outlines the dangers of "grit" and deficit perspectives as responses to educational disparities; offers research-informed, on-the-ground strategies for teaching and leading with equity literacy; and provides expanded lists of resources and readings to support transformative equity work in high-poverty and mixed-class schools. Written in an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts accessible, this book will help readers learn how to recognize and respond to even the subtlest inequities in their classrooms, schools, and districts. -- Provided by publisher

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Imagining Equitable Classrooms and Schools for Students Experiencing Poverty: An Equity Literacy Approach -- Chapter 3. The Inequity Mess We're In: A Class and Poverty Primer -- Chapter 4. Embracing a Structural View of Poverty and Education: Ditching Deficit Ideology and Quitting Grit -- Chapter 5. The Trouble with the "Mindset of Poverty" and Other Stereotypes about People Experiencing Poverty -- Chapter 6. Class Inequities Beyond School Walls and Why They Matter at School -- Chapter 7. The Achievement -- Er, Opportunity -- Gap in School -- Chapter 8. Teaching Students Experiencing Poverty in Effective, Equitable, and Even Data-Informed Ways: Curricular and Pedagogical Strategies -- Chapter 9. The Mother of All Strategies: Nurturing Equality-Informed Relationships with Students and Families -- Chapter 10. Cultivating School Change through Equity Literacy: Commitments and Strategies for School and District Leaders -- Chapter 11. Expanding Our Spheres of Influence: Advocating Change for the Educational and Societal Good