Carl Erskine's core values of inclusion and loyalty are illustrated in the story of his life-long friendship with Johnny Wilson. This clip is 3:25 minutes.
This is a sample year-long map that incorporates the EPIC classroom materials into Social Studies, Writing, and Reading lessons.
Explore this resource guide with links and handouts detailing inclusionary resources in an Early Learning setting.
The Educator & Staff Professional Learning Plan is one component of the K-12 Voices for Open OER - DEIA Action Planning Guide. This plan, and the entire guide, is intended as a strategic planning tool for district leaders wishing to promote the already pedagogically and financially compelling practice of creating or adapting open educational resources (OER) to help achieve district goals in serving all students through diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility (DEIA) lens. The guide provides step-by-step planning tools, including examples, templates, and resources to help district leaders articulate and establish action plans for what we refer to as "OER-DEIA." The entire guide is an open educational resource itself, free and openly licensed for reuse, remixing, and resharing.
On May 25, 2023, #GoOpen held a public webinar titled, "Educators Using OER to Identify and Remediate Bias." This session focused on using OER to engage all learners through an interactive Climate Education experience and was facilitated by ISKME professional learning specialist, Joanna Schimizzi, and consultant, Christina Spears, with moderator, Amee Evans Godwin.
In this lesson, students will discuss, collaborate, and complete an activity to learn how to show empathy toward others.
Thank you for visiting our Tennessee Board of Regents OER Grant English 1020: Introduction to Literature course. The pilot launched in spring 2023. This Walters State Community College composition course focuses on reading and analyzing poetry, drama, and short stories. The course has been designed with Quality Matters standards, Universal Design for Learning concepts, Growth Mindset fundamentals, and Lumen Circles concepts.
This course explores equity as a key value, measure, and framework for operationalizing local economic development plans and policies. It examines the implementation of local policy initiatives for equity in U.S. cities and investigates a wide range of contemporary theory and practice in the field of urban economic development, from contracting and municipal procurement to arts and culture-driven approaches.
The following set of criteria was developed by Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) to evaluate Open Educational Resources (OER) objects through an equity lens. These criteria were adapted from the Inclusive Instruction and Intersectional Content principles from the BranchED Quality Framework.
Set of Didactic Programs to boost inclusion by diversity at school (upper secondary level preferred). The approach combines humanities (history, civilization, linguistic, religion) and digital skills such asd 3D modelling, photogrammetry and holograms to describe the multicultural setting at school, as a result of the multiple cultures and sub-cultures represented by all students.Program 1: FoodProgram 2: Clothing & FashionProgram 3: Work tools and traditionsProgram 4: House, home & daily life objects
In this lesson, students will analyze character traits using the book, Playing for Change, by Kelly Brown. As an extension, students will identify positive character traits in themselves and others.
A picture book for grades 2-5. Tells the story of a lonely fox who lives on an island and decides to grow a garden. He is initially frightened of a bee who comes to the garden, but eventually learns of the bee's usefulness and they become friends. Inside the illustrations are a series of rebuses that, when decoded, tell the story of how bees pollinate flowers and make honey. Decoding the rebuses teaches students not only the ecological functions of bees, but also the mathematical principles of PEDMAS/BODMAS.
The 2020 GEM Report on 'Inclusion and Education: All means all' calls on countries to concentrate on those being left behind and to move towards inclusion an...
Inclusion Classrooms and why they are important and how to achieve them.
The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report called "Teaching Hard History: American Slavery" which explores how little American high school students know about the origins of American slavery and the government's role in perpetuating it. Teaching History and Social Studies in an accurate and inclusive way is particularly challenging because most educators' understanding of American History is unfinished/incomplete. The Integrating Inclusive Content strategy is a resource that contains exemplary lessons and content that venture beyond what's usually included in the curriculum. It supports teachers to provide students with rich, inclusive learning experiences that reflect the dynamic perspectives and experiences of those whose lives and histories are not always reflected in the curriculum.
On April 18, 2023, #GoOpen held a public webinar titled, "Integrating OER into Instructional Initiatives." The session featured Rebecca Henderson, Curriculum Services Supervisor, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, PA; Tracy Rains, Virtual Learning Specialist, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, PA; and, Kelly Hammond, OER and Open Pedagogy Adjunct, CUNY School of Professional Studies; and facilitator, Amee Evans Godwin of ISKME and the #GoOpen National Network.
In this lesson, students will recognize acts of kindness in their classroom community. They will then demonstrate these actions by competing in a kindness bingo activity.
We hope you find the lesson plan templates we have created surrounding Inclusive education, focusing on inclusivity and diversity, helpful in your classroom!Created by: Kerri O'Neill, Brooke Stilling, and Josh Stayko.
This guide is designed to support the integration of OER and DEI efforts within higher education institutions. Based on research funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that examined the strategies and experiences of the sixty-six colleges, universities, and state systems that participated in AAC&U’s inaugural, yearlong Institute on Open Educational Resources (2021–22), this publication provides evidence-based guidance and best practices that result in initiative sustainability and broad adoption of OER by strategically connecting this work to DEI goals, strategies, policies, initiatives, and offices that also exist within a given educational context.
In this lesson, students will demonstrate their understanding of loyalty through discussion with their classmates. An optional public service announcement activity is provided. This lesson is based on a video about Carl Erskine’s core leadership topic of loyalty and his book, The Parallel.