This presentation will focus on the role Bonner scholars, educators, and community members can take to work toward creating and sustaining more equitable schools across diverse communities. It will explore how systemic inequalities are currently impacting education and what individuals and groups can do to begin the process of dismantling those systems to move in a more equitable direction.

1. Moving Toward Equity in
Education
Dr. Jonathan Ryan Davis
Professor of Urban Education
The College of New Jersey

2. Do Now: Take four minutes to
represent what “equity in education”
means to you (poem, images,
drawings, etc.).

3. Definity Equity
Based on the discussions of how you
each represented equity in education,
write down your definition of
equity.

4. Understanding Ideologies that
Impact Equity
In small groups, come up with the following
for each type of ideology: Deficit, Grit, and
Structural:
1. Definition
2. Example
3. Its impact on education

5. How Deficit/Grit Ideologies are
Perpetuated in Schools:
Implicit Bias & Microaggressions
► Who has heard of these?
► How do you feel they impact schools?

6. The Impact of
Unconscious/Implicit Bias

7. Know How to Identify & Mitigate
Microaggressions to Lead Toward
Transformative Practices

8. Stretch Break!

9. Shifting from a Deficit/Grit
Ideology Embracing Structural
Ideology and an Asset-Based
Approach
►In your same groups, brainstorm how
you can make this shift happen.
Break down ideas for:
►What individuals can do to shift their
own understanding and actions.
►What schools can do to…
►What communities can do to…

10. Continued…
►Now let’s think about the specific roles
of Bonner Scholars, Educators, and
Community Members in moving toward
ACTION. Break down ideas for:
►What Bonners can do to shift their own
understanding and actions.
►What Educators can do to…
►What community members can do to…

11. Next Steps
►Write down two things you plan to do
to work toward supporting equity in
education and how you plan to
accomplish it.

12. Questions?!?!
► THANK YOU 
► Contact Info:
davisj@tcnj.edu