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When educational leaders use oversight practices that are transparent, community-driven, rigorous, and anti-racist, schools will be better for ALL students.
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Community of Educators
For educators who want to grow their understanding of justice and equity professionally and personally
Equity Design Thinking
Develop new practices that are intentionally designed to promote the learning of ALL students
Action Research
Have the time and support to make the changes you envision with Accountability Buddies, Facilitated Discussions, and curated Resources
Changing Practices
Create practices that are transparent, community-driven, rigorous, and anti-racist to make schools better for ALL students
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Questions? Contact Naomi Rubin DeVeaux at ndeveaux@charterinstitute.org
How it Got Started
For three years a group of like-minded authorizers and authorizer associations came together to impact authorizing practices for alternative education campuses through the A-GAME. The content inspired many heart-felt conversations, changes in practices, and an awakening to our role in perpetuating an unjust educational system that requires “alternative schools” to meet the social-emotional and learning needs of ALL students.
It is with this spirit that a small group of authorizers from across the nation volunteered to carry the work forward. The group has been meeting weekly since September 2020, building off of each other’s professional and personal experiences and backgrounds, and most importantly by taking on the call of Antionette Carroll (the Founder, President and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab) that, “If different forms of oppressions are by design then they can be redesigned to create a world that embraces the rights, dignity and power of all people”.
"Unjust structures and institutions are the problem—not the kids, not their parents, not their families, and not their communities. Educational inequality has sometimes been viewed as a problem of ‘achievement gaps’ or teacher quality, but there is no ‘achievement gap.’ Structural racism is at the root of educational inequities (Trujillo et al., 2017). People created inequitable systems and, intentionally and unintentionally, we perpetuate unjust systems. Inequitable systems were constructed by ruling powers to subjugate large populations and keep people enslaved, disempowered, disenfranchised, and marginalized. Educational inequity is the result of intentional design."
Elena Aguilar
Coaching for Equity
Facilitators
The work is personal and professional while also never-ending. As we continue this journey together, the tension between “not acting” and “doing it wrong” will help guide our steps and light our way. To learn more about Authorizing for All, visit this PowerPoint on Becoming an Equity Designer and this 5-minute video. Here are even more resources that will help us on this journey.
Naomi Rubin DeVeaux
Alul Yesak
John Carwell Jr.
Karega Rausch
Joseph Escobedo
Vashaunta Harris
Erin Anderson
Clear version here: https://dpi.wi.gov/imt/design-thinking
