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Equity work brings student voices to the table

By Amy Colton, Janice Bradley and Deb Radi
October 2021
Have you ever had one of those moments when you hit your head with your palm and say, “Duh! How did I not see that before?” The board of the Learning Forward Foundation had one of those moments recently when we realized our equity work had been missing an essential perspective: students. The foundation board members have been on a collaborative learning journey about how to build the capacity of educators to establish equitable learning environments that meet the needs of all students. Our quest for understanding has included many steps, like book studies, learning from the lived experiences and insights of equity leaders, and ongoing dialogue with each other. In all this work, how had we overlooked students’ voices? How could we have thought

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Amy Colton
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Amy Colton is a senior consultant for Learning Forward and executive director of Learning Forward Michigan.

Janice bradley
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Janice Bradley, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Utah, author, and educational consultant.

Deb Radi
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Deb Radi (dradi@mymts.net) is chair-elect and vice chair, governance for the Learning Forward Foundation and university secretary at Universit  de Saint-Boniface.


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