Overview

Concrete strategies for making higher education instruction more equitable via professional learning groups that use empirical classroom data to guide iterative, incremental changes In Equity Learning Communities, Daniel Reinholz recommends sustained, collaborative professional development group meetings as a launchpad for higher education instructors to enhance classroom equity and inclusivity. In Reinholz’s approach, community members make use of debrief sessions, collaborative problem solving, and empirical classroom data, such as participation data, to guide iterative, incremental changes in instruction that increase empathy and trust, improve instructor-student relationships, and build from student strengths. The book offers a comprehensive look at the process of professional learning via equity learning communities. Reinholz makes evident the tremendous benefits of such communities and community cultural wealth. He presents in-depth case studies of six instructors, diverse in terms of race, gender, disability, discipline, and professional experience, who made transformative changes to their mindset, perspective, and instruction as participants in such communities. This work gives instructors a host of explicit strategies and educational moves for becoming aware of and quashing inequities as they arise. It also provides a wealth of practical wisdom that faculty leaders, instructional coaches, and professional developers could apply to their own equity work. It serves as a blueprint for readers to create and sustain their own learning communities, from picking an appropriate measure to collecting data and organizing collaborative professional learning around those data.

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""College faculty are eager to create more inclusive classrooms, particularly for minoritized students, but often these change efforts focus on instructor mindsets or perspectives. This book, in contrast, centers equity transformation through actionable data that faculty collect and analyze in learning communities. Rich case studies of professors who have transformed their instruction provide a roadmap for anyone seeking to align their pedagogical practices with their equity commitments.""--Victoria Hand, associate professor of education in curriculum and instruction and program chair for STEM education, University of Colorado Boulder ""The genius of this book is that Reinholz is an exemplar of excellent teaching. He provides numerous examples of how to teach with love and understanding. Every math instructor should study this book and put into practice his methods."" --Estela Mara Bensimon, University Professor Emerita and Dean's Professor Emerita in Educational Equity, University of Southern California ""Through vivid case studies, this volume offers a rare view of how instructional change works and why it is a pressing need in higher education today. With care and hope, Reinholz demonstrates how to scale up changes that make participation--a foundation of learning--truly available to all students.""--Cassandra Volpe Horii, associate vice provost for education, Stanford University, and coauthor of What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs

Author Information

Daniel L. Reinholz is a professor of mathematics and statistics at San Diego State University. He is the cocreator of the EQUIP app, which generates actionable data to illuminate subtle inequities in classroom participation according to student social markers such as race, gender, and disability.

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