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Selected Resources for Equity Challenges

Selected resources for equity challenges

Why this resource? Working with educators from various contexts, including those awarded grants from the Wallace Foundation to engage in the Equity Centered Principal Pipeline Initiative and those who participated in the Standards for Professional Learning online course, revealed emerging themes in the questions and challenges systems are facing around equity. Having focused implicitly on equity for the past several decades and explicitly in the past several years, Learning Forward recognized an opportunity to align the rich resources developed and produced over time with the common challenges faced by systems and schools today. This resource presents that alignment.

How to use this resource:

  1. Scan the Equity Challenge column to locate your most pressing equity issue.
  2. Explore resources, in the adjacent column, that shed insight, ideas, and examples of how to address and how others have addressed that challenge.
  3. Identify the type of resource that may best serve the learning needs. Resources below are categorized as standard (S), tool (T), article (A), or webinar (W). Many resources are available to the public. The ones in italics are a benefit of Learning Forward membership.
  4. Share resources with your colleagues and decide on a method for diving more deeply into the content as an action step toward working to advance equity in your system.
  5. Request additional resources aligned to an equity challenge not presented here. To do so, click the “Submit here” link at the bottom.

*Note: Resources often address multiple equity challenges. The alignment presented here suggests the resource that harnesses the greatest potential to address each particular challenge.

General Statements on Equity

Equity Challenge
Implementing equity-based policies at the State Education Agency and/or Local Education Agency levels Equity Foundations standard (S)
Walking a tightrope or catapulting from a cannon? (A)
Practical tools for improving equity and dismantling racism in schools (T)
Equity-centered leadership in challenging times (W)
Investing in adult learners: Recruiting, supporting, and retaining educators of color in a virtual world (W)
Living equity in your work (W)
A culture of equity calls for leadership from the top (A)
The pursuit of racial equity: Moving past engagement to changes in educator practice (W)
4 practices for leaders to build equity (A)
Professional learning and equity directors work hand-in-hand (A)
Providing equitable access to high-quality professional learning to all educators including non-instructional staff, paraprofessionals, novice teachers, etc. Equity Drivers Standard
Come together for equity (A)
Drivers of equitable achievement in K-12 STEM Programs
Culturally responsive coaching is more than just good coaching (A)
Moving to and adopting an equity mindset in self and others Equity Drivers Standard (S)
Antiracist leadership: Critically self-reflective commitment (T)
You can coach for equity, anywhere, with anyone (A)
Beyond random acts of equity (A)
Educating for racial equity: Equipping oneself with anti-racist strategies (W)
How we can bridge the cultural gap (A)
Increasing collaboration with diverse colleagues and amplifying the voices of those educators that have been historically marginalized Equity Drivers standard (S)
An artful approach to dialogue (T)
What’s missing from this picture? (T)
Should groups set their own norms? Maybe not (A)
Investing in adult learners: Recruiting, supporting, and retaining educators of color in a virtual world (W)
Identity is at the heart of facilitating for equity (A)
Implementing equity-based practices that embrace the assets of those around you, including students and their families Equity Practices standard (S)
5 questions PLCs should ask to promote equity (A)
SEL and equity (A)
Culturally responsive instruction in an online world (W)
Culturally responsive teaching puts rigor at the center (A)
How a cultural lens can help teachers disrupt inequity (A)
Student talk in science class leads the way to equity in Detroit (A)
Coaching for equity (A)
The pursuit of racial equity: Moving past engagement to changes in educator practice (W)

Do you have equity challenges or questions that are not represented here?  Let us know what other topics you would like to learn about. Submit here.

Also, explore these other equity-centred resources: learningforward.org/equity

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