Our team upholds a firm commitment to hold one another, and everyone we work with, with grace and compassion, while simultaneously (1) facing the stark and inhumane realities of racism, sexism, able-ism, classism, and all other forms of exclusion, discrimination, dehumanization, and violence; and (2) struggling through the complexities of systems of oppression and the challenges of intersectionality.
Equity leadership requires that kind of commitment, courage, and self-reflection from all of us. It requires us to imagine equitable spaces and ideas that we have not yet seen in practice. To do this, leaders need a bold vision, significant knowledge and skills, and collaboration with many people.
Our work takes leaders and teams through an engaged process that involves deep learning. We create space for teams to step back from their day-to-day struggles to focus on the big picture, and then move them toward action for creating the schools our nation wants and needs. We invite educational leaders to transform how they think and, ultimately, what they do as a result.
We use these five meta-practices for building equity-focused systems:
We use these five meta-practices for building equity-focused systems:
- PRACTICE I PRIORITIZING EQUITY LEADERSHIP: ADOPTING A TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH
- PRACTICE II PREPARING FOR EQUITY:
- PRACTICE III DEVELOPING EQUITY LEADERSHIP TEAMS:
ESSENTIALS FOR LEADING TOWARD EQUITY TOGETHER - PRACTICE IV BUILDING EQUITY-FOCUSED SYSTEMS:
IDENTIFYING NEEDS AND PLANNING SYSTEMIC CHANGE - PRACTICE V SUSTAINING EQUITY: PREPARING FOR THE LONG HAUL