5 Strategies for College Readiness in Diverse Schools – Podcast Episode 175

Classnotes Podcast (September 29, 2017) Some students face hurdles that end up steering them away from college. Some face barriers that block their access altogether. But today’s school leaders can change that by creating a college-going culture for a student population that is becoming increasingly diverse. In this episode, Dr. DeShawn Preston, higher education research fellow at the Southern Education Foundation, outlines five successful strategies for schools to create college readiness for students of color and students from immigrant families. DeShawn is interviewed by David Hinojosa, J.D., director of the federally-funded IDRA EAC-South.

Show length: 13:35

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Resources

5 Strategies for Creating College Readiness for Students of Color and Immigrant Students,

by DeShawn Preston, Ph.D., & Amanda E. Assalone, Ph.D., IDRA Newsletter

http://www.idra.org/resource-center/5-strategies-creating-college-readiness-students-color-immigrant-students/

Racial Equity Leadership Network

Southern Education Foundation initiative to advance the capacity of district leaders committed to enduring equity-centered systems change as a solution to addressing racial, economic and academic disparities in districts across the South

http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Leadership-Development-Efforts/Racial-Equity-Leadership-Network2.aspx

Three Critical Areas of Professional Development for Teaching in 21st Century Classrooms

by Paula Johnson, IDRA Newsletter

http://www.idra.org/resource-center/three-critical-areas-professional-development-teaching-21st-century-classrooms/

Positive School Climates and Diverse Populations

by Kristin Grayson, IDRA Newsletter

http://www.idra.org/resource-center/positive-school-climates-diverse-populations/

Fostering Culturally Diverse Learning Environments

by Paula Johnson, IDRA Newsletter

http://www.idra.org/resource-center/fostering-culturally-diverse-learning-environments/

Embracing the Culture of Possibility for Student Success – Culture-of-Poverty Thinking Shortchanges Students and Families

by Aurelio Montemayor IDRA Newsletter

http://www.idra.org/resource-center/embracing-the-culture-of-possibility/

Project Implicit

Find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation and other topics

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit

Teaching Tolerance

Tools for educators about diversity, equity and justice

http://www.tolerance.org/

Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning

http://www.culturallyresponsive.org/

How Leaders Can Improve Their Schools’ Cultural Competence

by Chris Lehmann, Edutopia

https://www.edutopia.org/article/improving-our-cultural-competence-chris-lehmann

The IDRA EAC-South provides technical assistance and training to build capacity of local educators to serve their diverse student populations. The IDRA EAC-South is one of four regional equity assistance centers and serves Region II, which covers Washington, D.C., and 11 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. IDRA is working with staff at the Southern Education Foundation and the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium to develop local capacity in the region among the 2,341 school districts and 29,632 schools with over 1 million educators and 16 million students.

More information is available at http://www.idra.org/eac-south/.

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