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Leading Through an Equity Lens
A Process for Advancing Inclusive District Initiatives
Learn how to transform your organizational culture and improve student outcomes by executing initiatives through an equity lens. Author Kim Wallace offers leaders a practical course of action to amplify opportunities and diminish systemic barriers for historically marginalized students. The ten-stage process, introduced in Wallace’s book Leading the Launch, helps educators successfully integrate equity-centered implementations in their schools and districts.
Benefits
- Seamlessly implement new equity-centered initiatives in their own organization.
- Improve academic, social-emotional, and developmental outcomes for historically marginalized student groups.
- Address and eliminate unproductive or harmful practices that impede transformational change.
- Learn approaches and gain tools for engaging teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders in implementation adoptions.
- Cultivate school and district cultures that prioritize belonging and inclusion.
- Utilize research, scenarios, action items, and reproducible handouts to develop and implement organizational strategies that equitably support diverse groups of students and families.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Barriers to Equity
Chapter 2: Initial Stages
Chapter 3: Trial Stages
Chapter 4: Decision-Making Stage
Chapter 5: Execution Stages
Chapter 6: Making Space
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- First-Order Barriers: Questions for Consideration
- Second-Order Barriers: Questions for Consideration
- Third-Order Barriers: Questions for Consideration
- Initiative Autopsy
- Unpacking the Organizational Culture Iceberg
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.3: Tuning Protocol
- Equity-Centered Problems of Practice
- Winding Up the Pitch Writing Exercise
- Post Pitch SWOT Analysis
- Prioritization Process
Chapter 3
- Feasibility Measures for Educational Pilots
- Pilot Planning Template
- Continuum of Stakeholder Groups
- Engagement Strategies
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Initiative Evaluation
- Backward Planning Template and Timeline
- School Board Memo Template
- School Board Agenda Item Template
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.4: Tool for Developing SMARTIE Goals for SEL
- Professional Development Design Worksheet
- Iceberg Model for Professional Learning Design Template
- Implementation Inventory
- Annual Planning Calendar
Chapter 6
- Equity-Focused Initiative Assessment Tool
- Cost-Impact Matrix
- Implementation Inspection
- Vetting for Equity in Legacy Practices
Epilogue
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2012). Common formative assessment: A toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Conzemius, A. E., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The handbook for SMART school teams: Revitalizing best practices for collaboration (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wallace, K. (2022). Leading the launch: A ten-stage process for successful district initiatives. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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