Holding the highest of expectations for EVERY single student matters! In addition, communicating those standards of excellence directly to students is a necessary link between the expectations themselves and the students’ success. This is especially important for students whose demographics indicate that they are more likely to be on the unfavorable end of the persistent […]
Bias
Using Our Brains to Beat Our Biases (Part 2)
Imagine a “rocket scientist”, and then take a moment to see if the picture in your head corresponds to a stereotype? What if every time someone said ‘rocket scientist’ your brain had to sift through a number of possible images that would fit with that description? If it was being exhaustive, your brain would pull out each […]
Using our Brain to Beat our Biases (Part 1)
Only 16% of African-American students in California met or exceeded the math standards tested in 2015 by the new Common Core assessment test. This is in stark contrast to 69% of Asians and 49% of whites and corresponds to a well-documented and long-standing racially demarcated achievement gap. As disturbing as these results are, because the achievement gap is […]