Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

Education can be transformed by focusing on student brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential, and by using street data to guide a school or district's equity journey. This book offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately, provides an asset-based model to help educators look for whats right in their students and communities, and explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity to its potential to transform learning and reshape adult culture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing is the key to transforming education. We must shift our focus away from our fixation on big data, such as standardized test scores, as the sole measure of equity and learning. Instead, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up, with classrooms, schools, and systems designed to nurture students' brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential.

Street data offers a valuable perspective that reminds us that what is measurable is not always what is valuable. It can be humanizing, liberating, and healing. By breaking down the fundamentals of street data, Safir and Dugan provide an actionable framework for school transformation. This book offers fresh ideas and innovative tools that educators can immediately apply. It also provides an asset-based model that helps educators look for what is right in their students and communities rather than seeking what is wrong.

Data has the potential to transform learning and reshape adult culture in profound ways. By taking an antiracist stance and interrogating our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what truly matters when it comes to educating young people, we can create a more equitable and inclusive education system.

In conclusion, education can be transformed if we embrace a radical reimagining of our ways of being, learning, and doing. By shifting our focus away from big data and towards student-centered approaches, we can create a more equitable and inclusive education system that nurtures students' brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Let us take action to build a better future for all learners.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 207 x 253 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071812716