Strand 4: Equity
In this strand, division leaders will focus on investigating and analyzing equity challenges within their current systems to identify and implement actionable steps. Participants will engage with content and tools to identify systems and practices that address their selected equity challenge. Through completion of the three sessions, leadership teams will identify action steps to eliminate the predictability of student outcomes based on race, gender, zip code, ability, socioeconomic status or languages spoken at home and begin implementation of their equity plan.
Intended Audience: Participants should include DLT and any division level employees/teams who are leading equity efforts within the division.
Learning Intentions:
- Begin to recognize and Investigate equity challenges in current systems.
- Examine The VDOE definition of educational equity and the Equity 5 C’s.
- Identify disproportionality in division data.
- Build understanding of how individual experiences and biases impact decision-making
Materials:
Session B of Strand 4 will follow-up on learning from Session A. Participants will develop a plan for implementation based on the equity challenge they have identified.
Intended Audience: Participants should include members of the DLT who attended Session A and any division level employees/teams who are leading equity efforts within the division.
Learning Intentions:
- Continue building understanding of how individual and collective experiences and biases impact decision-making and outcomes
- Build consensus around division's equity challenge
- Identify potential strategies and tools to explore initial understanding of the equity challenge and refine the areas of need as necessary
Zoom link
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Presentation
In this strand, participants will consider the following questions: How does awareness, knowledge, and understanding of one’s own racial and cultural identity influence effective teaching, leading, and learning?
How does awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the racial and cultural identity of students and staff promote effective teaching, leading, and learning?
How do we design systems and practices to establish learning environments that are conscious of race and culture to ensure the implementation of culturally responsive practices, policies, and procedures?
Learning Intentions
- Define and identify mitigative and transformative measures for division’s specific equity challenge
- Construct an action plan for addressing the division equity challenge with consideration to current climate
Materials
If alternative formats of these document are needed, please contact Ryan McElhaney at mcelhoneyrj@vcu.edu