Consider a few ways your syllabus can be designed for equity.
How? Check out Melissa's article on designing a syllabus for the students we teach (not the ones we had 10 years ago, or the ones we wish we had).
Whether you're designing a syllabus for a secondary school classroom or for a college one, you'll find some good tips in Melissa's article, including:
Using design tools, not document software
Using language our students understand
Assuming positive behavior in our framing of course expectations
Using the syllabus to generate curiosity about the course learning
Using our class/course policies to minimize our biases
Here at EQUITYedu, we're wishing you a happy start to your school and academic year!
Image description: A page from one of Melissa's university syllabi; text boxes explain course policies and an infographic explains the student self-grading system. For more on "ungrading" practices, see Blum's (2020) Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning
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