ROAD TO AN

EQUITABLE
CLASSROOM
Creating an equitable classroom is a vital teaching practice
which supports and protects the physical, social, emotional, and
mental needs of your students. Follow this roadmap and discover
steps you can take in working towards your equitable practice.

BE AWARE OF YOUR BIASES

You must recognize that harm can
happen when you do not identify and
understand your unconscious biases.
Take the time to think about your biases
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and bring them to the forefront of your
conscious mind. This is vital to unlearn
and relearn our views of the world, and IT’S A NON-EQUITABLE
of our students.
SYSTEM
Have this mindset as you teach and

2 always think about ways you can

LESSEN THE DOMINANT
PERSPECTIVE
Ensure that your instruction and
learning experiences are
representative of the diversity of your
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students, and of the world. Various
backgrounds, perspectives, and
cultures must be visibly integrated into
your teaching.
address this in your practice. To
start, ensure that you know your
students. This is a vital first step
towards understanding cultural
competencies and ensuring that their
lived experiences are integrated into
learning experiences.
COMMUNITY
CONNECTIONS
It is pertinent to develop culturally
responsive programs and services

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that reflect diverse histories and
contributions of the community so
students can meaningfully engage
with educators and the curriculum.
To minimize violence in schools,
BRAVE SAPCES external collaborations and
Educators must work with students partnerships with other schools,
to develop a classroom environment community organizations, and

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where the 6 Pillars of a Brave Space
are effectively understood and
practiced. Consisting of
vulnerability, perspective taking,
leaning into fear, critical thinking,
examining intentions, and
mindfulness; the educator must
support the students towards
developing a collective responsibility
to uphold these pillars for the brave
space to be fostered and
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maintained.
ASSET-BASED
THINKING
families should be established. These
partnerships should aim to support
the community needs. Ultimately, to
create a sense of care, belonging,
and connection to the community.
INCLUSIVE
It is essential for educators to
form relationships with students
and learn about their capabilities,
preferred learning styles, areas of
improvement, heritage, and life
experiences, so that they can

This approach recognizes that each

student possesses different
7 design learning experiences that
reflect the diversity and lived
experiences of every student. An
strengths; these strengths are
inclusive curriculum’s content and
assets. An equitable learning
methodology must acknowledge
environment can be formed by
and integrate the contributions,
performing diagnostics to identify
injustices, and adversities of all
what the student excels at,
groups within its delivery. An
providing a learning pathway that
inclusive learning environment is
aligns with the student’s assets so
fostered when the identity of
that they can be successful, and
every student is validated,
lastly, providing meaningful
reflected, and affirmed.
feedback to the student so that
they can address what strategies
worked for them and how they can
improve.