Equity Project
Overview
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.
Continuum of Equity Services
Resources
Educational Equity Videos
Equity Partner 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
iLead Equity
Team Lab
iLead Equity Team Lab
The ACSA iLead Equity Team Lab* is designed to create a strong network of individuals trained and ready to lead their communities toward more equitable outcomes. We believe that creativity, innovation, and learning by doing, hallmarks of any laboratory, will allow us to experiment with new ideas and strategies. We will tackle the complex systems, leadership, policies and academic strategies needed to break through to equitable practices in schools.
The academy is designed for school site teams responsible for leading and coordinating reform efforts focused on addressing achievement gaps. Practical tools and tips are incorporated in every session.
Specific Themes Include:
- Build Cultural Proficiency to Advance Educational Equity
- Using the LCAP and SPSA plans to Leading & Design for Equity
- Using Data as an Equity Engine to Address the Needs of Student Groups
- Developing a strategic plan and vision for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Design a Continuum of Services and Support aligning local, state and federal priorities
- Understanding LCFF and Leveraging resources for all Student Groups
- Engaging Family and Community Partners for Equity and Excellence
*Lab activities (TBD)
Unconscious Bias
Training
Unconscious Bias Training
Our training is designed to give participants an opportunity to explore their unconscious or implicit bias through a facilitated dialogue and activities. The goal is to give each participant a unique experience. It is up to each participant to make connections from the training to their work assignment and to decide how to apply the learnings to their job/assignment. Learning about unconscious or implicit bias is just one part of becoming a culturally responsive educator. Our perceptions, assumptions, and expectations play a large role in student academic outcomes.
Specific Themes Include:
- Understand implicit bias and “how the brain works
- Learn how stereotypes “show up” in the school community – micro-aggressions
- Examine the historical context about the politics of identity and the dynamics of power and privilege
Equity Administrators
Academy
Equity Administrators Academy
The ACSA Equity Administrators Academy is designed to build leadership capacity and oversight to the development and advancement of systemic strategies. The Academy will focus on policies and academic strategies that close the achievement gap in efforts to implement promising and proven strategies in the district. Participants will learn how to conducts internal review and evaluation of existing resources and programs established to support underserved students.
The academy is designed for administrators or individuals responsible for leading and coordinating reform efforts focused on addressing achievement gaps.
Specific themes Include:
- Build Cultural Proficiency to Advance Educational Equity
- Using the LCAP and SPSA plans to Leading & Design for Equity
- Using Data as an Equity Engine to Address the Needs of Student Groups
- Developing a strategic plan and vision for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Design a Continuum of Services and Support aligning local, state and federal priorities
- Understanding LCFF and Leveraging resources for all Student Groups
- Engaging Family and Community Partners for Equity and Excellence
5-Day Equity
Institute
5-Day Equity Institute
ACSA, in conjunction with its equity partners, is proud to bring you a unique new professional development experience designed to build your cultural proficiency capacity in order to lead for equity. We have designed a rich program for district teams and individual leaders from all educational levels to assist in the development of deep belief systems and understanding of cultural proficiency that empowers you to be proactive and responsive to the diverse needs of the communities you serve.
CPSEL #5 Focus: Ethics and Integrity
- Reflective Practice
- Ethical Decision Making
- Ethical Action
Major Themes:
- Equity, culture, and community
- Cultural Proficiency
- Disrupting patterns of inequity
Social Justice
Certificate Program
Cultural Competence for Educators
Empowering Change. Empowering Leaders
This calls on educators to better examine the multicultural and layered reality of all, especially children and youth, to become more self-aware and culturally proficient, and to use their guidance to inspire and shape models for change that removes systemic obstacles and facilitates growth and achievement for all.
This course is designed to introduce the participant to the basic concepts of culture and cultural diversity, and develop an awareness and appreciation for the full range of diversity.They will tie various perspectives and employ a cultural proficiency framework to increase the excellence of education and achievement for the students and families they serve. Students will identify, research and write up a new normative case study of equity challenge that they would like to address in their local context.
Topics covered include:
- Cultural Proficient Leadership
- Cultural Proficiency
- The History of Public Education
- Leading from Inside-Out
- Overcoming Barriers to Cultural Proficiency
- Discovering Self and others: Guiding Principles to Cultural Proficiency
- Seeing and Responding to Differences: Macro- and Micro-aggressions
Target Audience:
- Teachers
- Counselors
- Administrators
- Psychologist
- Board Members
- Parents
- Classified Staff
Course Expectations:
Participants will be expected to
- Complete pre-class assignments prior to each session.
- Attend each session and participate in every class discussion
- Complete the capstone project
Program Details:
Length of Program: 3 months
Sept. 24–Dec. 10, 2019
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Virtual Live Sessions: Tuesdays, 2.0 hours
Leadership for Equity and Social Justice
This program will provide each participant with the tools required to develop an Equity and Social Justice Plan to implement in their setting, whether that is the classroom, the school or the school district. Each plan is based on the principles inherent in social justice and the plan will only be the starting point for each participant’s work. Following the development of their plan, participants will be assigned a job-alike mentor who will work with the participant in implementing their plan. At six months and again at one year, participants will meet to review and discuss their work in implementing the plan.
Course Expectations:
- Participants will be expected to complete pre-class assignments prior to each session
- Participants will be expected to attend each session and participate in every class discussion
- Participants will be expected to complete and implement their Equity and Social Justice plan
