Prosim Principles

PRISM Principles . The PRISM Principles PD approach comes from Pacific Oaks College & Children’s School and focuses on five key tenets: 1) The “P” represents “Praxis or the Mastery of Knowledge and Skills;” 2) the “R” represents “Responsible and Respectful Professional Dispositions;” 3) the “I” represents “Individual Uniqueness and Diversity;” 4) the “S” represents “Social Justice;” and 5) the “M” represents “Metamorphosis and Transformation” (Beyer, 2012, p. 6). The approach may be helpful in moving teachers from the point of understanding their own identities and biases toward creating positive equitable changes in the classroom (Beyer, 2012). To date, no research has been completed on the effectiveness of the PRISM professional development …show more content…
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Despite the lack of substantiating evidence for the PRISM principles approach, the program itself and the underlying principles can provide useful in both the creation and implementation of PDs with an equity lens.
Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED). Founded by Peggy McIntosh, the SEED project is an international PD program focused on seeking educational equity and diversity through “creating conversational communities that drive change” (National SEED Project, 2017a). To create the conversational communities, the SEED Project trains educators and school leaders to facilitate peer-led ongoing seminars within their own school (Hicks, Smith, Winton, & Wood, 2008). These seminars focus on personal reflection, dialogue, testimony, listening to others’ voices, and learning collectively and experimentally, preparing participants to reach beyond themselves and connect with the lives of others and broader society (National SEED Project, 2017b). As Towery (2007) highlights, the strength of the SEED model lies in its ongoing and consistent conversations that challenge the thinking of teachers, ultimately leading to increased learning and long-term change. Across 42 states and 13 countries, thousands of teachers have been trained as SEED leaders and many report that the SEED project PDs played a transformative role in the lives, their teaching, and, as a result, in the lives of their students (National SEED Project, 2017c; Hicks, Smith, Winton, & Wood,

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