Educational Policies & Teachers

Catalog description

This course is designed to familiarize early career teachers with educational policies that impact their schools and everyday classroom practices. Through this course they will develop a critical lens to analyze and reframe policies that lead to or exacerbate deficit thinking about students and their families. Teachers in this course will also examine how their own positionality interplays with their use of policies that lead to inequity and injustice. Through policy analysis and personal examination, teachers will go back into their classrooms with the ability to view educational policy and implementation through a critical lens.