Resources on Equity and Inclusion

Students with Disabilities

1. How to Adapt Your Teaching Strategies to Student Needs – Visit this webpage
for extensive lists of adaptations organized by learning difficulty.
2. Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup – Read this Edutopia article to
discover websites, blog posts, articles, and videos related to understanding,
selecting, and assessing assistive technology.

Students at Risk
1. How to Support At-Risk Students in Your Classroom – Read this article to learn
about what an at-risk student is, challenges they face, and ways to support
them in the classroom.
2. Help for kids the education system ignores – Watch this TedTalk to find out why
we should relabel “at-risk” students to “at-promise.”

Gender Differences
1. The Trevor Project – Share with gender-diverse students who need support in
the way of counseling or connecting with other students like them.
2. Gender Diversity Student Support Plan – Open this PDF to learn how to create a
support plan for gender-diverse students.

SES Differences
1. AVID Movement / This is AVID – Visit the AVID website or watch the AVID video
to find out more about AVID’s mission of closing the opportunity gap.
2. The Community Schools Model - What Are Community Schools? – Read this
webpage to learn about what Community Schools are and what they do.

Cultural and Language Differences

1. Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners – Visit this webpage
for a refresher of how to differentiate instruction for multilingual learners.
 2. Words Matter: Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students
– Listen to this podcast or read the article to learn what is code-switching and
why language matters.

Ethnicity and Race Differences

1. How to Talk about Race in Your Classroom – Listen to this podcast or read the
article to learn about two books that will help you hold healthy classroom
conversations about race.
2. 10 Principles for Talking About Race in School – Read this article for ten tips
that can help make race conversations normal, constructive, and successful.

Digital Inclusion
1. The Words Behind Our Work: The Source for Definitions of Digital Inclusion
Terms – Open for a dictionary of terms related to digital inclusion written by
the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
2. 4 digital tools that can help educators create a more inclusive classroom –
Read this article to learn about four tools from Microsoft that can help
educators create more inclusive classrooms, thereby ensuring students have
access to resources they need to succeed.