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    This document summarizes a reading about diversity in education. It discusses how diversity must be incorporated throughout all aspects of education to provide students the highest quality learning. It also notes that diversity applies not just to students, but also school leadership. The reading distinguishes between equity, which provides individualized support based on needs, and fairness, which gives all students the same support regardless of needs. It stresses that overlooking diversity can create conflicts that become barriers to teaching and learning.

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    This document summarizes a reading about diversity in education. It discusses how diversity must be incorporated throughout all aspects of education to provide students the highest quality learning. It also notes that diversity applies not just to students, but also school leadership. The reading distinguishes between equity, which provides individualized support based on needs, and fairness, which gives all students the same support regardless of needs. It stresses that overlooking diversity can create conflicts that become barriers to teaching and learning.

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    CaseyGeyer

    EDL647
    KennyRichards
    January19,2016

    ReadingSummary:DiversityMattersLeadershipCounts

    Diversityineducationiskeytoprovidingstudentswiththehighestqualityeducationpossible.
    Diversitycantbehaphazardlydroppedintotheeducationalprocessbutmustbeincorporatedinto
    everyaspect.TheACSAisanorganizationthatworkstoensuretheequityanddiversityineducation.
    Diversityineducationisnotlimitedtostudentsbutschoolleadershipaswell.
    Oftentimesthetermsequityandfairhavebeenusedinterchangeable.This
    misunderstandinghasleadtoaneverendingcircleoffrustration.Equityisprovidingeachstudent
    withthenecessarysupportthattheindividualneedstocreateopportunitiesforsuccess.Fairisgiving
    eachstudentthesamesupportregardlessoftheirindividualneedsorweaknesses.
    Ifdiversityisoverlookedandleftbehindconflictscanarisethatcancreatebarrierstolearning
    andteaching.Whendifferentculturesareplacedinthesameroomconflictsareboundtoarise.What
    maybeconsideredperfectlyacceptableinoneculturemaybeoffensiveinanother.Forexample
    makingeyecontactwhenastudentisbeingreprimandedforbehaviorchoicesnotinlinewith
    classroomexpectations.Thestudentmaylookdownorawayasthisactionshowsrespectintheir
    culture.Anunawareteachermaybecomefrustratedthinkingthestudentisnotpayingattention;
    beingdisrespectful.Diversitycanalsobegeographicallylimitedtoapersonsneighborhoodortown.
    Howapersonisraisedculturallyandsociallycanhaveanegativeorpositiveeffectontheir
    educationaldependingonoverlappingacceptablenormsinboth.
    Equityineducationandamongeducationalleaderswillnotoccurbecausewesayitwill.
    Creatinganenvironmentthatcelebratesdiversity,recognizesindividualtalents,weaknessesandalso
    providesaccesstotoolsandskillsthatprovideanopportunityforsuccesstakescognizanteffort.As
    leadersineducationwemustusediversitytocreatewonderfullearningopportunitiesandchallenges
    forourstudents,teachersandourselves.

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