Ensuring Equity for All Students - PowerPoint Presentation

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Ensuring Equity for All Students

Tennessee Leadership for Equity ConveningPearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School

Dr. Candice McQueen I Commissioner of Education I April 10, 2018Slide2
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Ensuring that our teachers have the knowledge and supports (including high-quality learning opportunities, materials, instructional leadership etc.) to meet new

standardsEnsuring that our major state initiatives are sustainable long-term and school and district leaders can strategically align their work with these initiatives Adequately supporting non-academic challenges

faced by our

students

Differentiating support and resources

for all school leaders, teachers, and students to meet goals

Challenges

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Equity:

Is a student-centered concept

Elevates our thinking about responding to individual student needs to thinking

systematically

about

student needs

Makes certain that personal and social circumstances

are not an obstacle

for achieving

educational potential

Ensures that student needs are met so that

all students

have access and opportunities for successEnsures our programs and initiatives address the needs of historically underserved subgroups

Building a Definition of Equity

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Our Vision

Districts and schools in Tennessee will exemplify excellence and equity such that

all students

are equipped with the knowledge and skills to successfully embark upon their chosen path in life.Slide9

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Equity extends across all of the state’s prioritiesSlide10

How do we support equity through leadership? Slide11

We know that there

are elements that create and contribute to inequities for students that are outside of our control. For example:

Supplemental educational supports provided by families

Availability of and participation in enrichment activities outside of school

Social and cultural capital of communities

However,

public schooling and education are critical levers toward achieving equitable student outcomes

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Intentional school design and programmatic offerings

Increasing student access to help close opportunity gaps

What can we do to support equity?

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Districts can focus on equity through:

Goal setting Defining clear expectations for leaders and teachers Policymaking and advocacy

Funding priorities

State and district leadership plays

a crucial role in ensuring equity for students.

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Educational

equity means that each child receives what he or she needs to develop to his or her full academic and social potential. Working towards equity involves:

Ensuring

equally high outcomes

for all participants in our educational system;

removing the predictability of success or failures

that

currently correlates with any social or cultural factor

Interrupting inequitable

practices

, examining biases, and

creating inclusive

multicultural school environments for adults and childrenDiscovering and cultivating the unique gifts, talents, and interests that every human possesses.School leaders have the opportunity to be leaders for equity.

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An educational

leader for equity works to eliminate achievement gaps

and ensure success for

ALL students

by identifying and addressing personal and institutional bias and barriers and providing strategies

to ensure each student has equitable access to:

effective educators;

rigorous and engaging learning opportunities;

social, academic, and community supports; and

resources to ensure success for ALL students.

School leaders have the opportunity to be leaders for equity.

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A Framework for Examining Equity – Overview

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Framework is adapted from OECD:

http://www.oecd.org/education/school/39989494.pdf

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A Framework for Examining

Equity – Specifics

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Framework is adapted from OECD:

http://www.oecd.org/education/school/39989494.pdf

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Increase data transparency and capacity to use data at

the district and school level

Developed new reporting tools—

Drive to 55

reports, new standard-level TNReady reports

Analyzing human capital data including access to highly effective teachers

Examining non-academic data to encourage development of multi-tiered systems of support

Provide support for educators

that teach English

learners (ELs)

Released an EL companion guide to

Teaching Literacy in Tennessee

Developed an EL Program Framework to support ELsReconvening educator-led EL PLCs Improve lowest performing schoolsLaunched the office of school improvement

Releasing updated Focus schools based on new accountability criteria in summer 2018

Developing customized Focus school support plan and service model

We are focused on improving supports for equity in a several key areas.

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Questions?Slide20