Equity Project
Project Goals
Membership
Increase diversity in ACSA membership and leadership through intentional recruitment, retention, and outreach efforts.
Communication
Increase all members’ awareness of equity and diversity issues that impact historically underserved leaders and students.
Professional Learning
Provide relevant equity leadership training and support for ACSA leaders and members that focuses on building capacity in cultural proficiency as well as all areas of equity and diversity.
Defining Equity Exercise:
- Have everyone take two Post-it notes, and write down an “equitable” and “inequitable” moment in their professional and/or personal life, one on each note. Share with your team, listening openly to each person's experience.
- Discuss together: If your organization were to articulate a definition of equity, what would it say?
Continuum of Equity Services
- Equity Strands/Sessions at ACSA Conferences
- Regional Learning Opportunities
- Networking Events
- Equity Partner Events
- Workshops at site, district or county offices
- Equity Partner Services
- Cultural Proficiency Training
- Equity Committee
- NASS Leadership for Social Justice Certification
- CCEE Professional Learning Network
- Research Team
- Equity Leader Coaching
More Resources
26 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism & Resistance
This list was curated by The Conscious Kid Library and American Indians in Children’s Literature, in partnership with Raising Race Conscious Children. Shared via Medium.
Summary of Discipline Data for Girls in U.S. Public Schools: An Analysis from the 2013-14 U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Data Collection
Prepared by the National Black Women’s Justice Institute; Misha N. Inniss-Thompson; September 2017.
Post-Election Success and Healing
Watch a 30-minute webinar on post-election success and healing.
Educational Equity Roundtable
Hosted by ACSA Diversity and Equal Access Executive Nicole Anderson, the roundtables are an opportunity for educational leaders to discuss the challenges educators face in addressing critical gaps in supports and mindsets in order to provide equitable schooling.
Equity and Diversity Action Plan
SMART goals and action steps created around focus areas in ACSA's Equity Position Paper, and supported by the ACSA Strategic Plan, aim to move efforts forward on equity and achievement.
Webinars
Why attend a webinar? The next best thing to an on-site workshop, ACSA has partnered with Corwin to provide webinars for your opportunity to interact directly with the field’s most influential thought leaders on a range of critical issues. What’s more, they’re free! Invite your entire team for a start-to-finish professional learning experience. Or download the slides post-webinar and share with your colleagues.
Trauma Informed Practices Presentation
BE HER RESOURCE: A Toolkit about School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
A joint project of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and The National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI).
LGBTQ Tools, Networking and Resources
For tools and resources to help administrators better serve their LGBTQ students and staff. Our goal is to connect LGBTQ educational leaders and allies and provide information and resources for the success of LGBTQ educators and the students they serve.
Equity Project Highlights
ACSA’s Equity Project consists of services and products that support members in the area of equity and diversity. Within the Equity Project, the Equity Committee and ACSA Staff have focused on 3 goals: membership, communication, and Professional Learning.
Equity Position Paper
Together our efforts must focus on closing the achievement gap in our schools and districts and on ensuring that all students meet standards.
Equity and Access Survey
Highlights from ACSA's 2015 Equity and Access Survey include many suggestions for championing educational equity throughout California.