For students, belongingness precedes achievement.
For schools, excellence requires equity!
Despite the best efforts of equity leaders, our schools suffer from persistent inequities. However, IncludED schools have a solution that works. Aligned with Social Justice standards IncludED provides the support that teams need to make the changes required for inclusion and equity.
Through a journey that moves from awareness to commitment to action, the IncludED suite of services help schools ensure excellence with equity for ALL learners through:
INCLUSION
DIGNITY
Beliefs that
presume
competence
CULTURAL
COMPETENCE
EQUITY
EXCELLENCE WITH EQUITY
Phase 1:
Awareness
The journey to excellence with equity begins with increased awareness of the issues that emerge from diversity and -- most importantly -- the incredible power we have as educators to influence the lives of students through our mindset.
As school teams progress on the journey to excellence with equity, they turn their commitment into action using tools and protocols to transform practices and policies to be more inclusive and equitable.
Ensuring schools collective action is sustainable, requires teams to develop internal coaches equipped with facilitation knowledge, skills, and dispositions to effectively lead equity-focused professional learning in a manner consistent with inclusion and equity.
Phase 2:
Collective Action
Phase 3:
Sustainability
EQUITY BOOKS
Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation
by Floyd Cobb and John Krownapple
This is exactly the book everyone needs to be reading right now. We need it for our relationships, our schools, and maybe even more important, for our nation.
Jim Knight, Senior Research Associate
University of Kansas Center for Research Learning
