245 10 |a Equity in our schools : |b ensuring marginalized students achieve at a high level / |c GwenCarol H. Holmes.

505 0_ |a Preface : Rigorous Education for All -- Chapter 1 : What Is Equity? -- Chapter 2 : Foundations of Equity in Schools -- Chapter 3 : Building Cultures that Support Equity -- Chapter 4 : Reading - the Basis of Equity in School -- Chapter 5 : Literacy in the Content Areas -- Chapter 6 : Highly Effective Instruction -- Chapter 7 : Student Supports -- Chapter 8 : Social Services : Why We Need Them -- Chapter 9 : Allocating Resources for Equity -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Professional Learning Plans -- Appendix B : Reflections and Next Step.

520 __ |a "GwenCarol Holmes has worked passionately for over 40 years to educate ALL students in numerous schools all across the United States, both rural and urban, large and small. She has served as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, educational provider and researcher, chief academic officer, and superintendent"-- |c Provided by publisher.

520 __ |a Practicing equity in our schools can ensure all students master rigorous standards and graduate high school college and/or career ready. The author, a long-time public-school educator, helps her colleagues understand more deeply what the practice of equity involves and how to use it to create cultures and systems in our current schools that go beyond a rudimentary education for some students to ensuring even the most marginalized of students achieve at the highest levels. This book encourages teachers, principals, and district leaders to each maximize the practice of equity in their various positions so that together we ensure a bright future for our children and our country. Equity practices in nurturing school culture, reading instruction, content area literacies, effective instructional practices, student supports, social services, and distribution of resources is required to ensure equality in outcomes so that education truly becomes the great equalizer Horace Mann proclaimed it to be. -- Provided by publisher.

776 08 |i Online version: |a Holmes, GwenCarol H. |t Equity in our schools |d Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2023 |z 9781475869088 |w (DLC) 2022054241.