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Welcome to PiedmontPD: Celebrating the Best in K12 Education!

2/14/2018

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Theres a reason it’s called Hidden Bias

2/13/2018

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Re;To the administrators who think their school couldn’t possibly be contributing to a school to prison pipeline,

To the administrators who feel offended at the accusation, who think it’s a sign of how our society must be devolving.

There are things you are not seeing. Things that are impossible to see without training, and even after training, there are things you are doing that are impossible to undo without explicit help.

So when you say, “Every student who comes in my office, I go by the book. Race is never a factor!” you think that means there is no hidden bias in your school.

Of course you think you aren’t biased. We all do. It’s human. Implicit assumptions are invisible: no on can see their own.

But you are wrong. You are biased.

You cannot trust your gut, you can’t trust what you THINK you see.

This is proven time and again in many trusted, peer reviews scientifically valid studies of human behavior.

But don’t give up.

What CAN you do then? Ask yourself:
  • Are you teaching the behaviors you wish to see in your school?
  • Are you training your staff on culturally responsive teaching?
  • Have you made explicit effort in every lesson to help students feel they belong? To make sure every child knows how to make meaning?
  • Have you tested your own implicit assumptions? (google: implicit assumptions test)
  • Have you asked your students where they see bias? Do you believe them when they tell you or do you tell them how they are wrong to think that?



Bias In a school begins long before a student appears in your office. And it’s not just you, not just your teachers, it’s all of us.

And it remains hidden to all of us until you do the work to make routinely invisible assumptions beliefs and practices visible.


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*Thanks to the CMS principals meeting for the focus on cultural responsiveness and our focus on restorative practices, Making it better, and all of today’s presenters.

Related:
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/news-and-thoughts/what-i-know-as-a-sociology-teacher-that-is-important-for-all-teachers-and-students-to-know
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/news-and-thoughts/what-i-know-as-a-former-psych-teacher-that-everyone-in-schools-can-benefit-from

http://educationpost.org/some-tips-for-a-white-teacher-trying-to-stop-being-racist/

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PL Resources for You

10/14/2016

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Here are some CMS Personalized Learning Resources for you to peruse at your leisure and according to your interests.

Main CMS PL Website
  • What is PL?  (contains intro videos and infographics)
  • PL “Playbook” Jumping off Page
    • The 4 “Cornerstones”
      • Student Ownership
      • Mastery Learning
      • Whole Child (basically our IB Learner Profile)
      • Paces Playlists and Pathways ( how to structure a personalized unit so students can achieve mastery at their own pace using tools like Blendspace or Google Classroom, etc)
Social Media
  • Youtube Channel  (videos of PL in CMS) subscribe to get notification of new ones
  • Facebook page - “Like” it to see it show up in your feed
  • Instagram take a look and follow them if you want
  • Twitter
    • Twitter Hashtag (live Twitter chat every Thursday at 7:30 pm)
    • First Twitter Chat “Storify” (A “storify” makes a twitter chat easier to read after the fact)
Podcasts (8-10 minute stories about PL - like a radio show)
Articles
Books (includes free e-books)

CMS Professional Development 
  •  Virtual Personalized Learning course catalog! Register now in MyTalent (Fall Deadline is December 1 to register) and they'll send you a link to to join the Canvas course.
Google Drive Resources
  • Piedmont PL 2016-2017
  • Middle School PL Documents by subject area (mostly core, sorry)
    • Ms. Winegardner’s Music PL Project
  • Correlation of PL teaching with NC Teacher Evaluation

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News For Piedmont families

9/6/2016

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  1. View the Piedmont Calendar (can copy these events into your own calendar if desired) This calendar does NOT replace the master calendar.
  2. Buy a Chromebook at a Reduced Price. Use This Link to Purchase a Chromebook for $145 as a special offer through CMS.  These Chromebooks are for students who wish to own their own (teachers as well)
  3. Free Wifi in Charlotte. Check out this map of Free Wifi Locations
  4. Low Cost Internet for eligible families in Mecklenburg County :
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Learn more at  http://digitalcharlotte.org/
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Turner's Graph of the Week

11/9/2015

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Related to our PDs on Close Reading, Turner's Graph of the Week is a great website for teaching graph-reading, which is a kind of literacy just like reading words.

Check it out and use it as needed for openers, special lessons, or topical tie-ins. Its a great way to teach reading in any course. Graphs relate to math, science, social studies, languages, and encore subjects.

http://www.turnersgraphoftheweek.com/

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For more specific lesson ideas and plans, check out the Lesson Ideas page.

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