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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Leading With Courage and Commitment: Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Schools
Over the past two decades, many school districts across the United States have engaged in some form of ‘equity work’ in an effort to change persistent racialized patterns in student experience and achievement. Communities have engaged in a wide range of efforts to increase opportunity and expand educational excellence and equity. While the impacts of…
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Center & Share Power with BIPOC Youth
The Schools Our Youth Demand
Students and student voices must lead our work in building equitable and liberatory schools. The Youth Liberation Symposium, an entirely youth-led virtual symposium featuring youth from across our network of 18 school districts connected to learn about the history of education liberation struggles and dive into questions around their own activist identity. The symposium culminated…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Leading for Equity Framework
Our Leading for Equity Framework provides a frame of reference that enables leaders to navigate the complex territory of equity challenges and to develop the capacity to engage in purposeful leadership action. In its simplest form, the Framework helps build habits of mind that are continually in practice. In its more elaborated form, it provides…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Liberatory Design Framework
Liberatory Design is an approach to addressing equity challenges and change efforts in complex systems. It is a process and practice to: Create designs that help interrupt inequity and increase opportunity for those most impacted by oppression Transform power by shifting the relationships between those who hold power to design and those impacted by these…
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
Partner with BIPOC Youth to Make School Better for Everyone
When we listen to young people who are not experiencing belonging and success in the current system of school, and co-design both micro- and macro-innovations in partnership with them, trust is built, healing occurs, and the changes implemented benefit all young people.
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Review & Respond to Data on Experience, Learning & Well-Being
SEL Data Reflection Protocol
This tool, adapted from the ATLAS Looking at Data Protocol from the National School Reform Faculty Harmony Education Center (nsrfharmony.org), presents a structured reflection process for SEL teams and other school stakeholders to observe trends and discuss ideas for continuous improvement of SEL implementation. It emphasizes the importance of examining data with an equity lens…