This page highlights resources to assist school personnel with equity-based practices for leadership and instruction. We hope to make you aware of resources and events which will stretch your growing edge as an equity minded educator.
Resources are broken down by topic in the sections below. Archived materials can be found on the Resources page.
COVID-19
- Planning for Re-entry and Recovery: A Guide for Promoting Equity, Improvement, and Innovation downloadable PDF by Four Points Education.
- Recover. Redesign. Restart: Return to School downloadable PDF by Virginia Department of Education.
- Return to School: Planning Equity Audit downloadable PDF by Virginia Department of Education.
- Reunite, Renew, and Thrive: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Roadmap for Reopening School downloadable PDF by CASEL.
Leadership
- Beware of Equity Traps and Tropes article by Jamila Dugan on ASCD.org.
- Equity Data Review Protocol Toolkit downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
- From Culturally Competent to Anti-Racist: Types and Impacts of Race-Related Trainings downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
- Navigating Ed Equity VA downloadable PDF by Virginia Department of Education.
- Perspective: The Intersection of Equity and Education video and article by EdNC.org.
- The Teaching Profession Playbook: Building a Strong and Diverse Teaching Profession downloadable PDF by the Partnership for the Future of Learning.
Mental Health
- Confronting Inequity / The Trauma We Don't See article by Dena Simmons on ASCD.org.
- Considerations for Building Trauma Sensitive Environments downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
Taking Action
- 10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity a podcast hosted by Jennifer Gonzalez at the Cult of Pedagogy.
- Academic Equity Workbook downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
- Black Lives Matter at School a collection of resources curated by National Education Association.
- Bringing Equity to Implementation downloadable PDF by Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- Conducting an Equity Audit downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
- Toolkit: Systemic Implementation of Equity downloadable PDF by Hanover Research.
Book Club
The following books were suggested by members of the LEI team.
- Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension by Sara K. Ahmed.
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult.
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell and illustrator Aurelia Durand.
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum.
Podcasts
The following podcast series are focused on equity in education.
- Leading Equity hosted by Dr. Sheldon L. Eakins.
- Just Talk! Educational Equity Podcast hosted by Tony Neal of Educational Equity Consultants.
- Education Talk Radio hosted by Larry Jacobs of the American Consortium for Equity in Education.