Video: Development Perspectives from Kelly Hammond
Overview
Kelly Hammond, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Instructional Technology Adjust at CUNY School of Professional Studies, talks about the importance of developing a strategic introduction to the OER-DEIA Action Plan for K-12 District Implementation that provides users with critical information that gives them a solid foundation when beginning their OER-DEIA journey. As she developed this section of the guide she reflected on her own OER journey and asked herself the guiding question, "What would I have needed to know in order to get there faster and more comfortably?"
Video: Kelly Hammond talks about the importance of developing a strategic introduction for users
OER-DEIA Action Plan for K-12 District Implementation
About This Guide
The guide contains a series of informational sections and reusable templates aimed at supporting district leaders and their educators in creating structures, making decisions and plans, and advancing new strategies for integrating open educational resources (OER) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), as a comprehensive approach to improving teaching and learning for all.
The creation of the guide relied on the groundwork, advisement, and authorship of the following contributors:
Rebecca M. Henderson, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, Pennsylvania; Tracy Rains, Appalachia Intermediate Unit, Pennsylvania; Kelly Hammond, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY School of Professional Studies, New York, Amee Evans Godwin, ISKME, California; An-Me Chung, New America, Washington, D.C.
Acknowledgments
This guide was collaboratively developed by members of K-12 Voices for Open, a group of 50 plus educators and leaders working together to support OER implementation in K-12 classrooms across the country. This community-led effort is facilitated by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME, www.iskme.org) and with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The authors are grateful for the input and encouragement from K-12 Voices for Open. More information: https://sites.google.com/iskme.org/k-12voicesforopen