Equitable Classrooms

We are excited to bring you this year’s first edition of our newsletter, "Equitable Classrooms!" For new staff, these newsletters are dedicated to sharing and celebrating teaching practices that foster uplifting all students within our classrooms and school buildings within the Rye Neck district.

Our monthly newsletter is dedicated towards a commitment to celebrate, explore, and amplify the richness that diversity brings to our Rye Neck community.

We invite your feedback and suggestions to make this a valuable resource for your classroom. If you have things going on in your class or school that you would like to share, or books or other media to introduce to your colleagues, please let us know and we will do our best to include your ideas in our next newsletter!

Best,

Tara Goldberg & Meegan Lawlor

RN Coordinators

As you prepare to welcome our students on the first day of school, please reflect on how you are making your classroom welcoming and affirming for all students. This article has a few suggestions to consider.

Click on the picture to read the Edutopia article, Creating Welcoming Classrooms.

SWBOCES has curated helpful resources for educators. Please feel free to access these as you see fit. You building Library/Media specialist will be happy to help you if you have any technical issues!

Some things to consider for the first days with new students.

• How does your classroom represent the students in your classroom?
• What could you add to help a student feel seen?

• Is there anything unique about your approach to welcoming students that you would like to share with colleagues?

This year, we have created a collection of tools that can help you on your DEI journey, Feel free to examine the links in this "workshop" slide. Throughout the year, we will add resources to this slide. When you come across resources you think may help others on their DEI journey, please forward them to one of us so we can add them.

ADL Education

Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Learning for Justice

NYSED DEI Resources

RN DEI "Workshop"

We welcome feedback to help make this publication as resourceful and inspiring as possible, and tailored to your interests. We invite you to reach out to us if you have resources to share and/or questions to ask. 😊

DEI Page RNWebsite

RN DEI "Workshop" RN DEI "Workshop"

Tara Goldberg: tgoldberg@ryeneck.org

Meegan Lawlor: mlawlor@ryeneck.org