Starting a DEI Committee
This article from Idealist shares tips to help ensure an internal DEI change group can function effectively and make sustainable change.
November 15, 2024
Craft Category: Artifacts
DEI Group’s Roles
This illustration sets forth role expectations for the members of an internal DEI group.
November 15, 2024
DEI Change Team Kick-off Meeting Template
This meeting template, designed by Illustrative Mathematics, demonstrates an example of a kick-off meeting for an internal DEI change team.
November 15, 2024
Building Trust for Remote Communication – Literature Review
This literature review, created originally by the Remote DEI Collective, explores the research building trust in a remote environment.
November 15, 2024
From Recruitment to Retention: How to run an equitable, inclusive remote job search
This deck covers facets of recruitment, hiring, and onboarding in a remote learning environment, which can be applied to education leaders hiring teachers for virtual learning environments.
November 15, 2024
Assessing Learning Anytime, Anywhere: Virtual Learning as a Launchpad Into the Future
This paper, created in collaboration between the Digital Learning Collaborative and The Learning Accelerator (TLA), outlines how we can reimagine assessment to gain meaningful, actionable insights regardless of where, when, or how students learn. In addressing some urgent challenges – illustrated by virtual schools’ existing issues with state assessments – there is a unique opportunity to build systems that better serve students, schools, and states to ensure every learner has a personalized pathway to success.
An accessible, Google Docs version of this paper is also available for viewing.
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November 15, 2024
Virtual Workplace Culture and White Identity
This literature review, created originally by the Remote DEI Collective, explores the research behind white supremacy culture and the virtual workplace.
November 15, 2024
White Supremacy Culture and Remote Culture Crosswalk
This resource, created by the Remote DEI Collective, explores the connections between white supremacy culture and remote culture.
November 15, 2024
Theory of Change Template
This theory of change template is designed to be completed collaboratively, allowing for teams and partners to ground their understandings of how their strategies, applied within their context, cause observable or measurable outcomes. Theories of change can grow and iterate over time and serve as an important tool to support data collection and analysis.
November 5, 2024
Artifact: East Boston High School’s Understanding by Design Template- Stage 3
East Boston High School employs the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to create engaging and effective learning experiences. Teachers collaboratively develop units, focusing on clear learning outcomes and essential questions. By working backward from desired results, across three different stages of implementation, educators design instruction and assessments that align seamlessly. This resource shares the Stage 1 template; view Stage 1 and Stage 2 template.
September 17, 2024