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Crystal Xu and Purvi Patel recently wrote a paper on how to Redesign School Level Systems For Equity.

• How systems work together.
• Started with redesign systems work.
• We actually have a lot more autonomy than we think.
• Expand our self-confidence around the structures we can control.
• How we define engagement in school.
• How do we deal with criticism that we face when we try to implement equitable practices.
• It comes with the self work.
• Power Struggle within a classroom.
• You’re good about making a decision when you know it is true to who you are.
• Privilege is not about good or bad.
• Fellowship learning experiences.
• How do we create more opportunities for Fellowship learning experiences.
• Making sure people have opportunities that didn’t usually have it before.
• Ceding power vs. Distributed leadership - Giving more ownership to others.
• All of those decisions can come with biases and other barriers.
• How to support people who may have an idea of what they want, but they don’t really have ideas of what they need.
• How do we really change school so we are serving our families, not so they are serving us?
• A sense of false choice.
• Take off the choices that are not possible for most marginalized families.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen deeply and “Ring the bells that still can ring” quote. Identify a crack and see it as a light.

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• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
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• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

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