This document describes scenes from a video about action research and diversity. The video introduces action research and discusses identifying a problem of practice related to diversity. It outlines the steps of action research: plan, act, observe, and reflect. Later scenes prompt the viewer to identify the most significant problem in their classroom related to diversity and discuss possible interventions to address it. The narration encourages attending a workshop to learn how to effectively employ action research to address issues of diversity.
1. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Action Research Introduction Screen 1 of 36
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What is action research?
WHAT IS ACTION RESEARCH?
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2. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
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Identify a Problem of Practice
Related to Diversity
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Step 1: Plan
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PLAN
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Step 2: Act
ACT
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Step 3: Observe
OBSERVE
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Step 4: Reflect
REFLECT
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Innovations for Institutional Diversity
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But what does that have to do with
you?
But what does
that have to
do with YOU?
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Innovations for Institutional Diversity
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Narration: Hi! I am Shonte Wallace.
The purpose of this video is to provide
a brief overview of Action Research in
the context of Institutional Diversity
and to present a teaser for an
upcoming Action Research workshop
for education practitioners in K-12 and
higher education who would like to
implement an action research study
related to addressing issues of
diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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9. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Action Research for Diversity
Introduction
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Value-Added Innovations for
Institutional Diversity
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Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Action Research for Diversity in Context Screen 10 of 36
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Narration: Diversity has been a
disruptive force within our institutions
that compels us to think critically
about the “way things are” and “the
way things are done” in our teaching
and learning environments. Many
educators find that the “best-
practices” handed down to them from
the trusted guardians of education
research, do not account for the
complexity of the learners’ diversity
and the uniqueness and multi-
dimensional nature of our teaching
and learning environments.
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Reference: Jutlla, K. & Lillyman, S. (2014). Research-based approach to teaching to identify issues faced when working with people with dementia from minority ethnic communities.
11. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Introducing Diversity Screen 12 of 36
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Narration: When was the last time
that you truly reflected on your
practice, as an educator?
And not just thought about the day…
But, reflected with the intention to
improve within the larger & historical
context of your school?
Action Research prompts you to self-
reflect, about your beliefs on
schooling and your practice, using
theories to guide your practice.
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12. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
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Narration: In your reflections, have
you accounted for the diversity of your
learners? For instance, what have you
done for the learners who have
learning difficulties or ethnic
differences?
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Did it work?
Narration: How do you know if your
intervention worked? Are you able to
modify it to continuously improve?
Will you be able to strategically alter it
in future practice?
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Narration: How many times have you
taught a lesson during your first block,
tweaked it a little before second block,
but mastered it by third block? Then
next year, while lesson planning, you
remember that you had to modify that
unit, but cannot remember exactly
what you changed previously to make
it better?
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15. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Introduction to Action Research for
Diversity
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ACTION RESEARCH
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LABORATORY OF PRACTICE
Narration: The thing about action
research is…
It’s not much different than what we
do in our laboratories of practice each
day, but it’s an intentional, strategic,
and collaborative effort that allow us
to perform grass-roots research within
our teaching and learning
environments that welcomes the
nuisances and unique contexts of that
environment.
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INTENTIONAL
STRATEGIC
COLLABORATIVE
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17. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Kurt Lewin Screen 18 of 36
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Actual Text: “The best way to
understand things is to change
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Narration: German-American
psychologist, Kurt Lewin has been
credited as the pioneer of action
research.
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Reference: Lewin, K. (1946). Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2(4), 34-36. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1946.tb02295.x
https://commons.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewin_kurt.jpg
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People of color represent 37% of
U.S. population
Narration: Action research allows you
to account for the student in your
classroom, at this time whose religious
practice gives them a new perspective
on a unit.
It provides an avenue to reflective
practice on how to introduce a new
text and to facilitate critical dialogue
relevant to their experiential reality
today.
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Reference: Adebayo, O. (2016). Why diverse books are commonly banned. Washinton, D.C.: The Association of American Publishers.
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Best Practices?
Narration: Wouldn’t you like to know
that you have offered your learners
the highest quality learning
experience that they could have…
That you have gone beyond basic
models for best practices and have
implemented contextual interventions
to foster diversity, inclusion, and
equity.
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20. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
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Actual Text: What is the most
significant problem in your
classroom related to diversity?
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Narration: What is the most
significant problem in your classroom
related to diversity?
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Description of scene: List of Diversity-Related Problems of
Practice
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Actual Text: Learning needs, ethnic
differences, race, language
barriers, technology, learning
interests, prior knowledge, gender,
socioeconomic status, generational
gaps,
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22. Name of video: Action Research: Value Added
Innovations for Institutional Diversity
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Actual Text: What do you do?
Narration: With that significant issue
in mind, you want to implement an
activity or method to provide a more
inclusive, equitable learning
environment but the “best practices”
of yesterday fail the tests of providing
meaningful opportunities for critical
dialogue or analyses of diverse points
of view, and leave little room to
accommodate differentiation.
What do you do?
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Innovations for Institutional Diversity
Description of scene: Reflecting on Current Interventions for
Problem of Practice
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Narration: Many of us want to provide
a quality teaching and learning
environment and we know our
classrooms are not exactly like anyone
else’s. It would be nice to have some
guidance on how we can address that
significant problem related to diversity
that we’ve been charged to address.
That is why you should attend my
workshop!
Learning how to effectively employ
action research, gives YOU, the
practitioner, the power to make a
difference!
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1. Actual Text: Ignore the
problem in your practice.
2. Hope the “best practices” you
are implementing eventually
address your problem.
3. Beg your researcher friends to
conduct a longitudinal study,
wait for the results, and hope
it applies to your practice
before you retire.
4. Conduct an action research
study
Narration: You have a few choices:
1. Ignore the problem in your
practice.
2. Hope the “best practices” you are
implementing eventually address
your problem.
3. Beg your researcher friends to
conduct a longitudinal study, wait
for the results, and hope it
applies to your practice before
you retire.
4. Conduct an action research study
If you chose option 4 and aren’t sure
where to begin, I have just the
workshop for you!
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Actual Text: Mapping Action
Research
Narration: Let’s look at how to map
action research!
After you identify your problem of
practice, you will need to make a plan
which includes collaborating with
strategic partners. Then you act by
implementing your plan. Observe the
implementation. Don’t forget to
collect and analyze data throughout
this phase. Then reflect. Remember,
there isn’t a true finish line. You are
continuously improving by making
modifications with each cycle!
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Who is the pioneer of action
research?
Kurt Lewin
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Narration: Let’s Recap!
Who is the pioneer of action research?
That’s right! Kurt Lewin
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Action Research Process
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Plan
Act
Observe
Reflect
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Narration: After you’ve identified a
significant problem of practice, what
are the four steps of action research?
You Got it!
Plan
Act
Observe
Reflect
And remember, it’s a cyclical process
that may require you to repeat a step
before moving forward.
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Narration: The purpose of this video is
not to SELL you a workshop, but to
INSPIRE you to take purposeful action
for transformative change by
collaborating with workshop
facilitators in order to discover ways to
learn in and from your practice as you
address issues of institutional
diversity.
Check out the workshop teaser!
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Actual Text: A pressing concern in
schools today
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dynamics
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Diversity is all around us
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How will you improve your
practice?
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Actual Text: Learn more at my
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References: Smith, E. J. & Harper, S. R. (2015). Disproportionate impact of K-12 school suspensions and expulsion on Black students in southern states. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania,
Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education.