Education Evolving defines educational equity as each student having what they need to reach their full potential.
Our organization’s vision is that all students have opportunities for student-centered learning, which we characterize as learning designed to honor each student’s unique gifts and needs. When fully implemented, student-centered is thus, by definition, equitable learning.
In presenting this definition of equity, we recognize and acknowledge that significant disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes exist among students based on socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, special needs, English language proficiency, sexual orientation, and geography, which result from a history of systemic, economic, and political inequities.
We also recognize, as individuals and as an organization, that an important step in the quest for equity is to better understand systems of inequity—and in particular, to understand ourselves, and our own identities, cultures, and roles in these systems.
Practically speaking, our organization’s focus on advancing equity is on two levels:
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