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Public School Options for Parents
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts examine their charter schools and magnet schools to ensure the equitable treatment of students regardless of race, national origin or gender.
Resources on public school options for parents
Texas Parent Information and
Resource
Center
“Parents Choosing Success for Their Children – Making Sure Title I Resources Improve the Education of All Children,” by Aurelio M. Montemayor, M.Ed. (IDRA Newsletter)
Other featured resources and web sites
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Quality Teaching for Diverse Populations
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts ensure the elements necessary for equitable and excellent education is provided to all students regardless of race, national origin or gender.
Resources on Quality Teaching for Diverse Populations
IDRA Math Smart! professional development model: Secondary Elementary
IDRA Science Smart! professional development model: Secondary Elementary
IDRA Early Childhood Centers of Excellence Model
National
Comprehensive
Center
for Teacher Quality (TQ Center)
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured resources and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Quality Teaching for Diverse Populations
Continuities with Lessons in Dropout Prevention – December 17, 2009
Professional Development for Secondary Math Teachers – September 29, 2009
The Teacher as a Culturally Proficient Coach – September 18, 2009
School Change Strategies – April 27, 2009
Fundamentals for School Change – April 7, 2009
Student Engagement and the Language of the Mathematics Class – March 26, 2009
Busting Myths About Children of Poverty – March 12, 2009
Broadening the Conversation with Parents about Mathematics – January 16, 2009
Beyond the Worksheet in the Science Classroom – November 21, 2008
Action for School Change – October 21, 2008
Fostering Student Questions – September 15, 2008
Supporting First Year Teachers – September 2, 2008
Transformational Teaching in Math – June 18, 2008
Teaching Opportunities through Discovery on Science – May 19, 2008
Student and Parent Math Conversations – April 29, 2008
Latino Parent Engagement in High School Math – April 3, 2008
Creating Leadership Opportunities for Students – March 13, 2008
Leading a Diverse Campus to Success – January 25, 2008
Professional Learning Communities in Schools – November 26, 2007
Coaching and Mentoring New Teachers – November 9, 2007
Science is a Key to Life – October 15, 2007
Science in Early Childhood Bilingual Classrooms – September 14, 2007
Five Dimensions of Mathematical Proficiency – July 13, 2007
Access to Higher Levels of Mathematics – May 30, 2007
Serving Migrant Students – February 14, 2007
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Dropout Prevention and Recovery
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts ensure the elements necessary for equitable and excellent education is provided to all students regardless of race, national origin or gender so that they all graduate ready for college and career.
Resources on Dropout Prevention and Recovery
IDRA School Holding Power web site
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured resources and web sites
Get Data on Your
Texas
High School
– IDRA’s School Holding Power Portal is designed to help community and school partners examine their school data and plan joint action to improve school holding power. Organized around IDRA’s Quality School Action Framework.
Classnotes Podcast on Dropout Prevention and Recovery
Continuities with Lessons in Dropout Prevention – December 17, 2009
Counting Dropouts – November 24, 2009
Busting Myths About Children of Poverty – March 12, 2009
Student Voices on Being Valued – May 14, 2009
School Change Strategies – April 27, 2009
Fundamentals for School Change – April 7, 2009
Action for School Change – October 21, 2008
Creating Leadership Opportunities for Students – March 13, 2008
Leading a Diverse Campus to Success – January 25, 2008
Dropout Prevention for Students with Special Needs – December 11, 2007
Professional Learning Communities in Schools – November 26, 2007
Learnings from the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program – June 28, 2007
Framing Systems Change for Student Success – March 2, 2007
School Holding Power for Every Child – January 4, 2007
Using the New High School Allotment in Texas – October 26, 2006
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Overrepresentation of ELLs
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts examine their policies and procedures to ensure equitable placement of students into special education programs.
Resources on Overrepresentation of ELLs in Special Education
Featured resources and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Overrepresentation of ELLs in Special Education
Dropout Prevention for Students with Special Needs – December 11, 2007
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Education of English Language Learners
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts meet their responsibility to educate all students who enter their doors, including children who arrive at school speaking a language other than English.
IDRA’s Education of English Language Learners in U.S. and Texas Schools – Where We Are, What We Have Learned and Where We Need to Go from Here – A 2009 Update gives an overview of increasing numbers of ELL students, distribution of ELL students, increasing diversity and varying languages, instructional programs provided, and funding provided to ELL programs along with recommendations.
Resources on Education of English Language Learners
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured resources and web sites
Education policy related to English language learner education
Classnotes Podcast on Education of English Language Learners
Reflections on Bilingual Education Today and Beyond – January 29, 2010
Building Critical Thought through Children’s Literature – February 2, 2009
Early Literacy Development for English Language Learners – April 17, 2008
Science in Early Childhood Bilingual Classrooms – September 14, 2007
Fostering Student Engagement English Language Learners – August 29, 2007
Good Schools for Children Learning English – June 20, 2007
Reflections from Early Childhood Institute Attendees – May 18, 2007
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Educational Equity and Gender
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The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts design sex equity programs to prevent sexual discrimination in any form, including sexual harassmanet, and ensure equal access for males and females to all courses and programs, including math, science and technology.
Resources on Educational Equity and Gender
Sexual harrassment definition
Forms of bias in textbooks and instructional materials
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured publications and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Educational Equity and Gender
Gender Equity at 36 – July 9, 2008
A Conversation about Single Sex Education – July 31, 2007
Fostering Gender Equity in the Classroom – March 23, 2007
Racial and Sexual Harassment – A School’s Legal Obligations – September 20, 2006
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Educational Equity and National Origin
( 4 items )
The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps school districts design and implement programs for students of diverse national origins and ensure that English language learners have access to an equitable and excellent education.
Resources on Educational Equity and National Origin
Laws and court cases
Race equity and desegregation terminology
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured publications and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Educational Equity and Race
Latino and African-American Communities Leading School Reform – January 20, 2010
Reflective Teaching – November 13, 2009
School Accountability to Poor Families – October 16, 2009
Professional Development for Secondary Math Teachers – September 29, 2009
The Teacher as a Culturally Proficient Coach – September 18, 2009
Student Engagement and the Language of the Mathematics Class – March 26, 2009
Busting Myths About Children of Poverty – March 12, 2009
The Civil Rights Impact of Response to Intervention – February 27, 2009
Building Critical Thought through Children’s Literature – February 2, 2009
Beyond the Worksheet in the Science Classroom – November 21, 2008
Fostering Student Questions – September 15, 2008
Teaching Opportunities through Discovery on Science – May 19, 2008
Six Goals of Educational Equity – February 29, 2008
Science is a Key to Life – October 15, 2007
Fostering Student Engagement English Language Learners – August 29, 2007
Serving Migrant Students – February 14, 2007
The Need for Cross-Race, Cross-Sector Dialogues – January 24, 2007
A Model for Successful Reading Instruction – December 4, 2006
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Educational Equity and Race
( 4 items )
The South Central Collaborative for Equity helps schools become more racially equitable, ensure equal opportunity for academic achievement, provide fair discipline, decrease conflict, and engage parents and community members.
Resources on Educational Equity and Race
Race equity and desegregation terminology
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
IDRA related publications
Other featured publications and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Educational Equity and Race
Latino and African-American Communities Leading School Reform – January 20, 2010
Helping Schools Address Issues of Race – August 25, 2009
Busting Myths About Children of Poverty – March 12, 2009
The Civil Rights Impact of Response to Intervention – February 27, 2009
Six Goals of Educational Equity – February 29, 2008
The Watch on Racism Cannot Stop – October 26, 2007
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Race – August 15, 2007
The Need for Cross-Race, Cross-Sector Dialogues – January 24, 2007
Racial and Sexual Harassment – A School’s Legal Obligations – September 20, 2006
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RTI
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The Response to Intervention (RTI) frame is intended to provide early assistance to children who are having difficulty learning. The South Central Collaborative for Equity has worked with the national network of equity assistance centers to outline the equity conditions that must be in place for RTI to be successful and non-discriminatory.
Resources on Response to Intervention
Response to Intervention: An Equity Perspective – The Equity Assistance Centers Identify Civil Rights Concerns with the Implementation of Response to Intervention
National
Center
on Response to Intervention
Other featured resources and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on Response to Intervention
The Civil Rights Impact of Response to Intervention – February 27, 2009
Dropout Prevention for Students with Special Needs – December 11, 2007
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Six Goals of Education Equity
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Public schools can do what they choose to educate their students within certain limits and parameters, but they are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing characteristics of those learners.
Bradley Scott
, Ph.D., (director of the equity assistance center at IDRA) has proposed six goals of education equity. The IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, has embraced the goals of educational equity. The nine other equity assistance centers have embraced the goals as well.
The goals are dynamic. The SCCE has been using them as a framework for providing technical assistance to and becoming engaged with the school districts with which it works in federal Region VI.
Resources on the Six Goals of Education Equity
View the Six Goals of Education Equity
Texas
School
Finance Reform: An IDRA Perspective, by José A. Cárdenas, Ed.D.
Articles from the IDRA Newsletter
Other featured resources and web sites
Classnotes Podcast on the Six Goals of Education Equity
Six Goals of Educational Equity – February 29, 2008
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General Compliance and Equity Plan
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General Compliance and Equity Plan
The SCCE helps create schools that work for all children by protecting their civil rights and guaranteeing their equal educational opportunities. Since 1975, the center has guided more than 1,000 school districts to focus on educational opportunity as a fundamental responsibility for which all schools and districts are accountable.
The center can help you develop links to the community and dialogs with parents of traditionally underserved students.
The center can help reduce school minority community tensions and lessen intergroup tensions, racial and sexual harassment, and linguistic barriers that often threaten effective educational outcomes for students.
The center provides you with comprehensive ongoing technical assistance in the area of equity.
If your school district is developing or revising programs to comply with court orders to desegregate, or
If your school district is not in compliance with state or federal laws regarding civil rights discrimination against racial or linguistic minorities or against males or females,
Then you may be eligible to receive extended services - up to 15 days of technical assistance and training each year.
If you are developing an equity plan to address a school reform issue,
Then we can assist you to formulate and implement a response.
As part of the center’s commitment to sustainable change, your district will be encouraged to evaluate extensively the process and end results, and to share responsibility for the training and follow-up activities.
Other services available to your district include regional participation in regional meetings, institutes, and coordination meetings and access to a variety of desegregation and equity information. The center creates and supports model programs that can be used by other school districts and state education agencies to develop policies that support curricular and instructional changes.
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Services
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How the South Central Collaborative for Equity Can Help Your School
The IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity helps create schools that work for all children by protecting their civil rights and guaranteeing their equal educational opportunities. Since 1975, the center has guided thousands of school districts to focus on educational opportunity as a fundamental responsibility for which all schools and districts are accountable. The center specifically serves school districts in Federal Region VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The center can help you develop links to the community and dialogs with parents of traditionally underserved students.
The center can help reduce school minority community tensions and lessen intergroup tensions, racial and sexual harassment, and linguistic barriers that often threaten effective educational outcomes for students.
The center provides you with comprehensive ongoing technical assistance in the area of equity.
If your school district is developing or revising programs to comply with court orders to desegregate, or
If your school district is not in compliance with state or federal laws regarding civil rights discrimination against racial or linguistic minorities or against males or females,
Then you may be eligible to receive extended services - up to 15 days of technical assistance and training each year.
If you are developing an equity plan to address a school reform issue,
Then we can assist you to formulate and implement a response.
As part of the center’s commitment to sustainable change, your district will be encouraged to evaluate extensively the process and end results, and to share responsibility for the training and follow-up activities.
Other services available to your district include regional participation in regional meetings, institutes, and coordination meetings and access to a variety of desegregation and equity information. The center creates and supports model programs that can be used by other school districts and state education agencies to develop policies that support curricular and instructional changes.
Learn more about assistance in the following areas…
Race Equity and Desegregation Assistance
Sex Equity and Desegregation Assistance
National Origin Equity and Desegregation Assistance
Learn more about types assistance…
Focused Educational Assistance
Data and Information
Training Workshops
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