The Hub
This RCSD website is created by the coaches for all teachers in the district with planning for equity consciousness. This web site is designed to support NUA participating teachers easily access resources such as articles, lesson plans, unit plans, videos of teachers implementing NUA strategies, and recorded Professional Learning opportunities. The Hub can be accessed by clicking on the image or click here to visit The Hub.
Culturally responsive pedagogy is the process of eliciting, engaging and guiding connections to students cultural frames of references for deep understanding, high intellectual performance, competence and confidence and is at the heart of our work toward Equity Consciousness. – Yvette Jackson
“A strength-based classroom is a place where students with all sorts of labels come together as equals to form a new type of learning environment” – Thomas Armstrong
ELA Mini-Unit on Character Analysis
Using The Pedagogical Flow Map (PFM)
This unit created by RSCD Coach Whitney Eakin shows all aspects of a PFM with activities and supports for the success of all students. This lesson is an example of Unit / Lesson design with the Pedagogical Flow Map (see descriptive of the PFM below). Visit The Hub for more lessons.
Strategies Used – Powerful Questions on book cover, Key Word Prediction, Thinking Maps (Circle, Double Bubble, and Flow) for supporting students thinking before moving into quick writes and a multi-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting characters in the story.
You can use this unit as is or edit for the needs of your class. All slides have both English and Spanish headings as a way to honor the students first language (this lesson was originally designed for 3rd-5th grade Newcomers).
