Producing Reform, Yet Reproducing Inequality?

Facilitator(s): Tom Malarkey, Amanda Lashaw, Gilberto Arriaza

Workshop   +   Leadership: change process   +   Everyone

As reformers, we hope that our work will help close the achievement gap and create schools that do not reproduce inequitable educational outcomes in race, class, gender, and language. However, do our reform efforts--and the larger proliferation of reform--inadvertently contribute to the maintenance of these inequalities? This session addresses this question from three perspectives: case studies of reforms around student-teacher relations (cultural), around teacher collaboration (organizational), and a critical analysis of the role of education reform in the U.S. (historical). Participants will apply these perspectives to their own schools as well as discuss critical issues about the larger reform "movement" of which we are a part.

Date/Time: Friday, 8:00am - 10:00am   Room: CC 618   Session #45

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