Without the equity piece, we don’t have community in our classrooms. Without community, the inclusion of ALL of the kids, then we can’t make comprehensible input work in our classroom. it is because of the nature of language as per:
https://benslavic.com/blog/lart-de-la-conversation-and-tprs/
I know I link to this post a lot. It is because I am driven by a sense of urgency. How can we get to equity and inclusion if we don’t reflect on what conversation is? It certainly isn’t five to seven kids running the classroom, as per:
https://benslavic.com/blog/5-to-7-kids-can-ruin-a-class/