Street Data by Shane Safir & Jamila Dugan

Author:Shane Safir & Jamila Dugan [Safir, Shane & Dugan, Jamila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2021-03-27T17:55:12.737885+00:00

The six simple rules cut across micro- and macro-pedagogies, from small moves at the interpersonal level to big moves in curriculum and assessment design. Put together, they will help you shape a pedagogy of voice that generates rich street data and cultivates the most important measure of all, student agency.

The BALMA Project, Revisited

In this chapter, we connected the concept of street data to the instructional core, positing that equity work is first and foremost pedagogical. We reframed success through the lens of student agency, imagining what it would be like to measure identity, mastery, belonging, and efficacy rather than test scores. And we explored six simple rules of a pedagogy of voice that will help us break free from the compliance mindset sewn by the testing era. The implications of these shifts are monumental. Access to a pedagogy of voice and agency can change a student’s life trajectory.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with five BALMA project students who are now adults with careers, families, and lives of their own. Taina Gomez (2019), now a public defender, shared this:

Our teachers inspired us to believe that we could do anything. They inspired us to believe that we were worthy and smart and capable. I think they saw something wonderful in us…. [The BALMA project] helped us see beyond our own communities, that there is this huge big world out there and despite the obstacles that we faced, some of which we had no control over, we could overcome…. I was able to be the first one in my family to go on to college. I obtained a full tuition ride to UC Berkeley, and I was able to go on to law school afterwards.

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