Equity and Culture
This summer I went to the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Institute. The focus of AVID is to help those students who might get through the cracks without additional help get the tools to and support to be college ready. The session I attended was called Equitable Classrooms. As a student working on my preliminary administrative credential, this session landed quite differently than it would have just going as a teacher. It forced me to think more globally about the session than just what happens in my classroom on a day to day basis. One of the things that stuck out to me the most was the discussion around language use. The facilitator, a principal in New York, said that they have changed the term English Language Learner in her school to Multi-Language Learner. She said that this shift emphasizes the positive nature of the fact that these students are not limited. The use of inclusive language is an important part of being inclusive in scho...