Sentences with phrase «include racial equity»

He urged school board members to include racial equity policies in their strategic plans and to engage parents and the community in the work of systemic transformation of schools.

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Streisand evoked the protest hashtag #TimesUp, but it was Oprah Winfrey, accepting a career award with a barnburner of a speech, who brought together the gender, racial and equity concerns of all the hashtags of rage, which also include #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite.

They include Parents as Agents of Change, Getting Serious About Excellence with Equity, Family Engagement as a Shared Responsibility in a Digital Learning Environment, Reframing Family Involvement in Education: Supporting Families to Support Educational Equity, How Can Evaluation Address Racial Equality?

The initiative is considering a broad range of issues including school choice, racial equity, and school culture and climate.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

The multicolored chart also includes an «equity report» showing which student subgroups, based on racial and ethnic background, income levels, and so on, are lagging behind.

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

Bradley talks about the role of the nation's 10 equity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all leaequity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all leaEquity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all learners.

She also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California where she concentrated on a range of social and racial justice issues including advancing education equity, LGBTQ issues, immigrant rights, and advocacy for the homeless.

Additional steps will include grounding the city's teacher leadership and new principal mentoring programs in a racial equity lens, developing a new Social Studies Scope and Sequence and Passport to Social Studies curriculum, and using the keynote address at the citywide principal's conference this spring to focus on the subject of culturally responsive teaching.

The week includes workshops by writers and artists whose work focuses on social and political issues, including the environment, climate change, gun violence, racial violence, police brutality, violence against women, racial equity, homophobia, and immigration, all through the lens of creative action.

This season's programs will include storytelling at the Pulitzer by We Stories, a St. Louis - based organization dedicated to promoting inclusive children's literature and providing families with resources and opportunities for advancing racial equity.

The Racial Equity Committee monitors and provides advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

There are some immediate measures that can be taken — a few are mentioned in the CBA's Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool including having interviewers and lawyers who make hiring decisions receive training on gender and racial stereotypes and the role of unconscious bias in hiring decisions; using written interviewing guidelines; having an employment equity and diversity hiring policy in place and regularly measuring diversity performance within the firm.