Basic Services: Equity Actions
Explore Equity Actions
District Aligned Resources
- Recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified administrators, teachers, counselors, certified interpreter/translators, paraeducators, and staff who are representative of student demographics
- Ensure human resources employees engage in equity work for practices and policies
- Create a mentoring program to support and retain BIPOC teachers
- Align employee evaluations to community - designed goals and criteria for socially conscious leadership
- Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
- Maintain school facilities
Recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified administrators, teachers, counselors, certified interpreter/translators, paraeducators, and staff who are representative of student demographics
Resources
Actions and Metrics
Compare student demographic information to staff (administrators, teachers, counselors, certified interpreter/translators, paraeducators) demographic information.
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Create a policy/plan for recruiting, hiring, and retaining highly qualified administrators, paraeducators, and staff who are representative of student demographics.
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Recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified administrators, teachers, psychologists, counselors, school social workers, certified interpreter/translators, paraeducators, and staff members who are representative of student demographics.
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Collect data on who is serving at high-priority schools.
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Ensure human resources employees engage in equity work for practices and policies
Resources
Inclusive Work Environments and Hiring, Lawrence Hall of Science |
Teaching Quality and Diversity, Alliance for Resource Equity |
Student Supports and Intervention, Alliance for Resource Equity |
Actions and Metrics
Create an asset-based new hire plan/policy to support and retain new employees.
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Assess HR employees’ understanding of equity framework and multicultural issues.
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Create asset-based systems/pathways for new hires.
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Ensure active promotional pathways and supports for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) staff members.
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Ensure the new hire induction/support process introduces/engages in developing understanding of equity work.
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Create a mentoring process for post-induction new hires.
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Create a mentoring program to support and retain BIPOC teachers
Resources
Racial Affinity Groups for Educators of Color, Liberated Genius |
Seeding a Culture of Coaching, New Teacher Center |
Racial Affinity Groups: Guide for School Leaders, Great Schools Partnership |
Actions and Metrics
Identify and monitor mentoring programs.
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Create and implement a plan to ensure active promotional pathways and support for BIPOC staff members.
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Design programs to support all staff.
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Acknowledge and learn more about individual and structural racism that has historically permeated American public schools.
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Align employee evaluations to community - designed goals and criteria for socially conscious leadership
Resources
Educator Effectiveness and Evaluation Project, San Diego County Office of Education |
Actions and Metrics
Review existing evaluation policy, practice, and model.
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Identify staff training needs in the areas of equity and socially conscious leadership.
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Provide staff supportive structures/resources to ensure improvements, such as asset-based work.
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Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
Resources
Actions and Metrics
Complete annual evaluation of standards-aligned instructional materials (Williams).
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Create an LEA-wide plan that ensures that all staff have training and support to implement culturally and linguistically responsive instruction pedagogy. Provide space and structure for teachers to engage in dialogue and dynamic learning with students.
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Create a plan to cultivate restorative, student-centered classroom cultures.
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Provide time for staff to explore their own identities, mindsets, and skills (mirror work) as they simultaneously seek to understand and affirm their students’ backgrounds, cultures, and languages (window work).
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Maintain school facilities
Resources
CA Green Ribbon Schools, California Department of Education (CDE) |
Actions and Metrics
Conduct annual facilities inspection (Williams).
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Engage educational partners in planning and developing school design/spaces.
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Conduct a review of representation of community and staffing in libraries.
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Require high standards of cleanliness, including immediate removal of graffiti.
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School Aligned Resources
- Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
- Maintain school facilities
Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
Resources
Actions and Metrics
Ensure that all staff have training and support to implement culturally and linguistically responsive instruction pedagogy. Providing a space and structure for teachers to engage in dialogue and dynamic learning with students.
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Create a site-level plan to cultivate restorative, student-centered classroom cultures. Gain insight through conducting student shadowing, reviewing schedules, and walk-through observations.
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Provide time for staff to explore their own identities, mindsets, and skills (mirror work) as they simultaneously seek to understand and affirm their students’ backgrounds, cultures, and languages (window work).
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Explore competencies for culturally responsive teaching.
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Maintain school facilities
Resources
CA Green Ribbon Schools, California Department of Education (CDE) |
Actions and Metrics
Require high standards of cleanliness, including immediate removal of graffiti.
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Representation of community and staffing in libraries.
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Identify facilities needs and share with the district (following protocol for work orders).
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Classroom Aligned Resources
- Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
- Maintain school facilities
Ensure students have access to the standards-aligned instructional materials
Resources
Actions and Metrics
Ensure that students have access to culturally and linguistically responsive instruction.
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Create a classroom plan to cultivate restorative, student-centered classroom cultures.
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Teachers explore their own identities, mindsets, and skills and seek to understand and affirm their students’ backgrounds, cultures, and languages.
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Explore competencies for culturally responsive teaching.
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Maintain school facilities
Resources
CA Green Ribbon Schools, California Department of Education (CDE) |
Actions and Metrics
Require high standards of cleanliness of your classroom, including immediate removal of graffiti. Create beautiful, child-friendly, clean classroom spaces that welcome students and families
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Ensure classroom libraries are open to families and have rich texts that represent the community it serves.
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Visually highlight diversity.
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