Leading Through an Equity Lens: A Process for Advancing Inclusive District Initiatives (Overcome Barriers to Educational Equity and Refine Systems Int - Paperback

Learn how to transform your organizational culture and improve student outcomes by executing initiatives through an equity lens. Author Kim Wallace offers leaders a practical course of action to amplify opportunities and diminish systemic barriers for historically marginalized students. The ten-stage process, introduced in Wallace's book Leading the Launch, helps educators successfully integrate equity-centered implementations in their schools and districts.

This book will help educational leaders and administrators:

• Seamlessly implement new equity-centered initiatives in their own organization
• Improve academic, social-emotional, and developmental outcomes for historically marginalized student groups
• Address and eliminate unproductive or harmful practices that impede transformational change
• Learn approaches and gain tools for engaging teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders in implementation adoptions
• Cultivate school and district cultures that prioritize belonging and inclusion
• Utilize research, scenarios, action items, and reproducible handouts to develop and implement organizational strategies that equitably support diverse groups of students and families

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Barriers to Equity
Chapter 2: Initial Stages
Chapter 3: Trial Stages
Chapter 4: Decision Stage
Chapter 5: Execution Stages
Chapter 6: Making Space
Epilogue