Curriculum Revitalization Through an Equity Lens with Marceline DuBose

Curriculum Revitalization through an equity lens with Marceline DuBose    Ways to revitalize and diversify curriculum • Apply a good filter; watch for what explicit and implicit messaging in the content•  Include a broad array of perspectives•  Don’t sugar-coat hard things•  Make sure students can students see themselves in the curriculum•  Teach larger concepts of justice, democracy, human growth, and development using all kinds of people that have contributed to these concepts  • Identify and include absent narratives What gets in the way of revitalizing and diversifying our curriculum? •  Tradition, or personal affection or nostalgia for a certain topic •  Assumption of what students should learn: the cannon, college ready, standards and testing •  Educators feeling like they don’t have the knowledge or time to make changes •  Parents critiquing changes in the curriculum•  Assuming students are too young to talk about difficult things or current events  An example of revitalized curriculum: MLKJ •  Learn about his values and think about how would he apply it to current topics?•  Give a full and accurate representation of who he was; not just dreamy •  Include MLKJ and other BIPOC leaders in the curriculum all year long Dos or Don’ts for Black History Month•  Do add stories of whimsy, love, friendship, and creativity; Don’t limit your discussion to stories of trauma, oppression, or overcoming adversity •  Do involve you students by making stories relevant to their lives•  Do expand complexity and context, not just history but current events as well; Don’t limit yourself to single heroes – what are the stories of the people, the area, the geography?•  Do expand the context where these stories live (math, science, tech); Don’t limit it to the humanities•  Do balance our stories so they aren’t all victim-focused; who is the focus on?  Resources & References Connect with Marceline: www.dueast.org; @dueeast•  Unit or Lesson planning template •  Collective Knowledge Creation•  Educational Equity Curriculum and Instruction Compass•  No Stone Unturned Journal •  List of websites for curriculum •  Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist Classroom Texts •  Diversity in Children’s Books 2018 Infographic •  Danger of a Single Story TedTalk•  Absent Narratives Resource Collection from MN Humanities Center  Ed Soul Podcast Credit | SourcewellFind more educational resources by topic at https://www.mn.sourcewell.org/education/podcast Learn more about upcoming trainings and events for educators at www.mn.sourcewell.org/education