1. Educator Equity Resource Tool: Using Comprehensive Equity Indicators
2017 NNSTOY Annual Teachers Leading Conference: A Clear Voice, A Collective Vision Sunday, July 16, 2017 Wesley Williams, II Senior Project Director, Westat

2. And How Are the Children?

3. Nationwide Student Demographics Race/Ethnicity (2013 – 2014)
Hispanic or Latino of any Race
24.7%
Black or African American 15.5%
White
50.3%
Boys: 51.4% Girls: 48.6%
English Learners: 9.9%
Students with Disabilities: 14.0%
Asian 4.8 %
American Indian or Alaska Native 1.1%
Two or More Races 3.1%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0.4%

4. Pre-school: Enrollment v. Suspension
19 %
41 %
47 %
28 %
Black
White
Black
White
Discipline disparities begin early. Black children represent 19% of enrollment, but they accounted for 47% of the pre-school children who received one or more out of school suspensions in Black preschoolers are 3.6 times more likely to be suspended than white preschoolers.

5. K-12 schools: Enrollment v. Suspension
Percent
Black Boys
Black Girls
White Boys
White Girls
In K-12 schools, the data show that 18% of suspended students were African Amer boys and 10 % were Black girls. Both are twice as high as rates for White boys and White girls.

6. Jeannie Oaks’ Keeping Track Study

7. Criteria applied equally to all students
Criteria applied on case by case basis
No criteria or barriers to participation

8. “Liberation” Curriculum that supports how all students are smart
Individualized Instruction
Growth Mindset
Ethical and Inclusive Policies

9. Engage in a Cyclical Process

10. Comprehensive Equity Indicators

11. Comprehensive Equity Indicators
Examine and include a wide range of essential equity indicators specific to the local district context
Design equity plans using indicators to support the development and implementation of a comprehensive educator equity plan.

12. Comprehensive Equity Indicators (cont.)
Comprehensive equity indicators include but are not limited to the following:
Family and Community Engagement
Culturally Relevant Leadership Practices
Student-Centered Data for Student-Centered Learning
School Climate

13. Comprehensive Equity Indicators (cont.)
Equitable Student Access
Diverse Staff of Excellent Educators
Fiscal Equity
Teacher Quality (visit: work/education/educator-effectiveness/educator- equity-research-tool to access the equity resource tool focused on teacher quality indicators)

14. Let’s Work Together for ALL Children
Family and Community Engagement:
Establish and cultivate ongoing partnerships with families to ensure student success.
Establish and cultivate ongoing partnerships with colleges, universities, businesses, community organizations, local health and wellness, mental, and social service centers.

15. It’s Just Good Teaching and Leading
Culturally Relevant Leadership Practices
Engage in team-based, ongoing, and job embedded professional development focused on implementing leadership practices that support culturally relevant dimensions that deeply value the diversity and richness of the adult and student population in K–12 schools.

16. Keeping the Main thing, the Main Thing
Intense Focus on Student-Centered Data for Student-Centered Learning
Examine school suspension, expulsion, chronic absenteeism and other student data that adversely affect student achievement and learning.
Address the root causes of high dropout rates, low graduation rates, and all students’ performance on formative and summative assessments.

17. Teaching and Learning Conditions Matter
School Climate
Ensure that strategies are implemented in the equity plan to maintain school safety and a supportive and healthy school climate for all learners.

18. Differentiated and Customized Learning Opportunities
Equitable Student Access
Support college and career readiness for all students, thus promoting increased opportunities for dual enrollment, advance placement courses, and career and technical education.

19. Equitable Access, Diversity, and Inclusion
Ensuring a Diverse Staff of Excellent Educators
Develop and implement a comprehensive educator recruitment and retention plan to maintain an excellent and diverse educator workforce that supports the diversity of the student population in K–12 schools.

20. Equitable funding allocations
Fiscal Equity
Allocate equitable funds to high-needs schools to support the resources needed to establish and maintain systemic and effective school reform.

21. Effective Teaching Teacher Quality
Ensure that districts and schools implement a comprehensive recruitment and retention plan using promising practices to recruit, hire, retain, and support an equitable distribution of exemplary and effective educators for all students.
Visit education/educator-effectiveness/educator-equity- research-tool to access the equity resource tool focused on teacher quality indicators.

22. Embracing Equity for Excellence (Westat Equity TA Services)
Engage your community
Collective impact
Open space facilitation
Problems of practice
Storyboarding
Strategic communications

23. Embracing Equity for Excellence (Westat Equity TA Services) (cont.)
Evaluate your progress
Data collection
Data stories
Equity mapping
Logic model and theory of action development
Performance management
Program evaluation

24. Embracing Equity for Excellence (Westat Equity TA Services) (cont.)
Enhance your understanding
Building a diverse educator workforce
Culturally responsive practices
Customized equity training
Identifying and addressing disproportionality and success gaps
Using data to inform practice and instruction

25. Comprehensive Equity Indicators
For further guidance, specific equity inquiries, and technical assistance, please
For customized equity training opportunities using the comprehensive equity indicators published in Wesley’s equity resource tool, please contact Wesley directly at or

26. Thank You!