The Instructional Services unit recognizes the need to eliminate disparities in educational outcomes of students from marginalized populations. This site has been created to function as a repository of resources that may be used to inform the implementation of policies and practices that support equitable teaching and learning. The repository provides resources that address three implementation steps: Acknowledgement, Action, and Accountability needed to engage systemic transformation of curricular, instructional, and leadership structures.  

*We are seeking to expand our collective understanding of equity, beyond access to include achievement, identity and power.

*We are seeking to rehumanize the teacher profession by reframing teachers as complex, multidimensional members of the learning community who are capable of voicing their professional learning need and engaging in deep work in the service of the communities serve.

*We are seeking to empower teachers to model for our children how to view the world with a critical and humane mindset, to imagine how the world might become a socially and racially just place, and to identify themselves as agentive thinkers capable of engaging in transformative ways in society, so they can improve the quality of their life and their communities.

*We are seeking to eliminate the attainment gaps for our students in particular our Black and Latina/o/x students, our students with disabilities, our multilingual students, our students who receive services through foster, homeless and migrant educational programs.

These ideals can be realized, first by acknowledging the injustice embedded in our policies and practices and creating just opportunities, and sharing resources that allow for student success. Secondly, by taking actions that dismantle systemic inequities and the co-creation of racially and socially just systems in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Thirdly, by focusing on institutional accountability rather than teacher and student deficits.

We encourage educators join the call and offer support and resources for realizing these ideals.

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Reading Resources – Educators and School Leaders