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Please check your name tag �for your table #!

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Welcome to the 26th

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Middle Grades Institute

Advancing Equity in the Middle Grades

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Champlain College, June 24-28, 2019

@ mgi_2019 #MGIturns26

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MGI Staff hail from…

  • Brattleboro Area Middle School
  • Castleton University
  • Essex Middle School
  • Lamoille South Supervisory Union
  • Milton High School
  • Montpelier Main Street Middle School

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  • Saint Michael’s College
  • Shelburne Community School
  • Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
  • Teacher-to-Teacher
  • University of Vermont
  • UP for Learning

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MGI Participants

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Supportive Learning Environment

  • Basic Needs
  • Safe and Respectful Spaces
  • Relationship and Belonging
  • Communities of Learning
  • Interdisciplinary Teaming
  • Celebration and Challenge

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Supportive Learning Environment

  • Safe and Respectful Spaces
  • Basic Needs
  • Sense of Belonging
  • Small Communities of Learning
  • Relationship and Belonging
  • Interdisciplinary Teaming

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Meaningful and Personalized Learning

  • Authentic and Equitable Learning
  • Student-Directed Learning
  • Personalized and Flexible Pathways
  • Collaboration
  • Rigor and Responsiveness
  • Joy and Fun
  • Student Voice

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MGI 2019 Student Staff�

  • Co-Experimenters, Advisors, Panelists
  • 6th - 8th graders
  • 8 Schools
      • Camels Hump Middle School
      • Dorset School
      • Edmunds Middle School
      • Harwood Union Middle School
      • Hunt Middle School
      • JFK Elementary
      • U-32
      • Winooski Middle School

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Striking a Balance

  • Responsiveness and rigor
  • Silliness and seriousness
  • Play and work
  • Joy and challenge

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Equity Literacy

  • Includes the ability to
    • recognize even the subtlest biases and inequities
    • respond to biases and inequities in the immediate term
    • redress biases and inequities in the long term
    • create and sustain bias-free and equitable classrooms, schools, and institutional cultures (Gorski, 2017)

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Advancing Equity �in Vermont

  • Equity Index as a measure of school quality
  • Historically marginalized as reporting category
  • 2/3 of Vermont schools eligible for ESSA Equity Supports based on performance gaps

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Advancing Equity �in Vermont

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  • Bill H.3: An act relating to ethnic and social equity studies standards for public schools

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    • Adoption of ethnic and social equity studies standards
    • Report data on student performance
    • Report data on hazing, harassment, or bullying incidents

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  • Disaggregated by ethnic and racial groups, poverty status, disability status, ELL status, �and gender.

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Rebecca EunMi Haslam

  • Founder, Seed the Way, LLC

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  • Faculty, Saint Michael's College

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  • Ph.D. Candidate, University of Vermont

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  • 2015 Vermont State Teacher of the Year

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Welcome to the 26th annual

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Middle Grades Institute

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Champlain College Campus

Burlington, Vermont

June 24-28, 2019

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