Our Commitment
The Partnership for Public Education stands with communities of color in these difficult and critically important moments in history, and we recognize our responsibility to actively redress inequitable policies and practices and promote work that ensures equitable education opportunities and outcomes for all Delaware students. Since our inception, we have centered equity issues in all of our work, prioritizing initiatives that hold promise to shift structural inequities and positively impact marginalized students and communities. We have funded fellows seeking to build equity-centered partnerships with Delaware schools (see below), developed joint professional learning opportunities with school and district partners, and created resources that promote cultural competence and diversity in the educator workforce. We continue to affirm our commitment to equity in current and future work and believe we can make real change in the world, together.
Resources from UD Scholars
PPE’s briefs on promoting equity literacy and promoting culturally competent teaching and fostering equity literacy
Dr. Deb Bieler’s book, The Power of Teacher Talk promotes positive interactions among teachers and students.
Dr. Ken Shores’ recent work on sources of inequality in multiple educational outcomes.
Dr. Tia Barnes’ research, tools, and professional learning on culturally responsive pedagogy and SEL.
Dr. Roderick Carey’s work on the Black Boys Mattering Project and Finding Future Selves Post-Secondary Curriculum.
Dr. Elizabeth Soslau’s work with critical service learning pedagogy
Dr. Jill Flynn’s Critical Multicultural Pedagogy and Using Quad Text Sets to Teach for Social Justice and Equity in the ELA Classroom.
For additional references or more information about UD’s leaders in educational equity, email PPE-info@udel.edu.
Resources We Use with Partners
1. Teaching Tolerance’s Practices for Anti-bias Education
2. Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium Audit
3. Need in Deed‘s critical service learning curriculum and professional learning
4. Akoben’s work with restorative practices in schools and communities
5. Brief article on Equity Literacy for All
6. Using Quad Text Sets to Teach for Social Justice and Equity in the ELA Classroom
7. Finding Future Selves Post-Secondary Curriculum
8. Redding Consortium for Educational Equity
9. From our book studies:
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?
LGBT Youth in America’s Schools
Promoting Racial Literacy in SchoolsGorski and colleagues’ case studies on diversity and social justice education
E4E Equity-based Podcast Episodes:
Funding Equity Focused Work: The PPE Fellows
Ann M. Aviles, an assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies worked on a project that engages youth in the Riverside community of Wilmington, DE to promote civic engagement via Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to increase youth’s capacity to be knowledgeable, active participants in their community’s revitalization efforts.
Katrina Morrison, a Researcher at the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, partnered with Akoben LLC, in a research-practice partnership around the use of restorative school practices, emphasizing student voice and experience.
Roderick L. Carey is an Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences. In partnership with Newark High School, Dr. Carey imagines mattering– learning from the experiences of Black and Latino boys and the ways they do or do not infer their mattering in school spaces to develop professional learning experiences for educators.
Dr. Elizabeth Soslau, an associate professor in Education, led the Need in Deed Critical Service Learning Collaborative, working in partnership with Warner Elementary to implement a critical service learning curriculum that facilitated elementary students’ year-long projects, enabling a culturally relevant curriculum that addresses the required standards and positioned children as empowered change agents by connecting classrooms with the community. This work has since expanded to other DE and PA school districts.
Additional Campus Resources and Contacts
UD centers on equity not only in its research and work with our P-12 partners but also in preparing future educators and leaders.
Learn more about anti-racism, equity, and teacher education resources from Drs. Jill Flynn, Rosalie Rolon-Dow, Lynn Worden, Kisha Porcher, and others.
Teacher educators as disruptors
The responsibilities of white teacher candidates and teacher educators
Teacher candidates’ racial literacy
Discover projects, courses, and campus initiatives associated with pre-service and in-service education through the Delaware Center for Excellence and Equity in Teacher Preparation’s diversity, equity, and inclusion site.