Educators as Learners and Active Designers of Equity: Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education 2021

Watch the presentation that Dr. Ryoko Yamaguchi led with Arlington Public School educators, showcasing their Researcher-Practitioner Partnership (RPP). The presentation highlights Dr.
Yamaguchi’s equity framework, definition of equity, and how educators are learners and active designers for equity in their classroom and school. Educators talk about structural, instructional, and curricular barriers they identified through student empathy interviews. The presentation described a school improvement effort designed to promote linguistically and culturally diverse high school students to be college and career ready upon graduation through a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP). The school improvement efforts focused on developing teachers as learners by 1) shifting the definition of what constitutes a “good” school—away from student outcomes, towards teacher outcomes; 2) understanding structural, instructional, and curricular barriers that diverse students face in their school through student voices; and 3) creating lesson plans that proactively remove barriers and explicitly nurture learning partnerships with students. The presentation showcased how the educators identified and removed structural, instructional, and curricular barriers and created supports in their circle of influence (their classroom).

Access the presentation here: https://vimeo.com/531412639/8e41bab3b5