Office of Organizational Development Equity Training and Development
Team
Montgomery County Public Schools
Century 21
20010 Century Boulevard, Room 300
Germantown, Maryland 20874
News
Jamie Almanzán of the Pacific Educational Group presented “Courageous Conversations: A Latino Perspective” to MCPS educators in May and June. Mr. Almanzán (center) was hosted by the Equity Training and Development Team (from left to right): Bryan Avila, Angie Burrell, Donna Graves, and Nora Nasser.
Equity Team Blog
The purpose of the blog is to provide
current information about items of interest to educators
regarding Equity. Each member of the Equity
team will post entries and links to web resources
of interest. We invite you to submit
your comments and feedback on the blog page.
Recommended books, documents, and web
links are available on the Equity
Resources page.
Announcements/Events
CHETs Modules Available
The Communicating High Expectations to Students (CHETS) modules are now available from the OOD website and Equity Team page.
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The mission of the
Equity Training and Development Team is to build
capacity of MCPS instructional
leaders to close the racial achievement gap and eliminate racial predictability in student achievement.
Enduring Understanding:
Race and culture exert a powerful influence
on teaching and learning.
Essential Questions:
1. How do awareness, knowledge, and
understanding of one’s own racial and cultural identity promote
effective teaching and learning?
2. How do awareness, knowledge, and
understanding the racial and cultural identity of students promote effective
teaching and learning?
3. How can educators establish learning environments that are conscious of race and culture to ensure implementation of culturally responsive instruction?
Communicating High Expectations
to Students (CHETS)
This series of online modules is intended to assist instructional staff to understand the critical relationship between teacher expectations and student achievement. The modules provide a wide variety of learning experiences designed to assist teachers to examine their beliefs, values, attitudes, and dispositions as they influence teaching and learning.
Schools that want to use pre and post assessments and private discussion boards, should contact Angela Burrell and David Kreisberg. Modules can be accessed without those features using these links:
The Equity Training and Development Team Book
Club was established as a forum for discussing current
research and best practices related to Equity
and equity.
The Equity Team has created pre, during, and
post activities for online articles in various
categories. Click on the link below to access these
resources.
