EGUSDEducational Equity

Strategic Plan Development

Board of Education PresentationFebruary 6, 2018

Christopher R. HoffmanSuperintendent

EGUSD Strategic GoalsAll students will have access to standards aligned curriculum and receive high quality instruction to promote college, career, and life readiness and eliminate the achievement gap.

High-QualityClassroom

Instruction &Curriculum

All students will benefit from instruction guided by assessment results (formative, interim and summative) and continuous programmatic evaluation.

Assessment,Data Analysis,

& Action

All students will have an equitable opportunity to learn in a culturally responsive, physically, and emotionally healthy and safe environment.

Wellness

Family& CommunityEngagement

All students will benefit from programs and services designed to inform and involve family and community partners.

Presentation Calendar

• Feb 6 – WHY• Why we are engaged in Educational Equity work

• Feb 20 – HOW• How we are engaged in Educational Equity work

• March 6 - WHAT• Educational Equity Strategic Plan

• March 20 - WHAT• Educational Equity Strategic Plan

Educational Equity - Defined

• Ensuring the decisions, policies and practices in our learning system are culturally sensitive and provide all students with equitable access, opportunity, support and resources enabling us to: • meet students’ individual needs to learn, grow and

develop in a safe, healthy environment with high expectations

• support all stakeholders in advocating for fairness • ensure the ultimate outcome of all students

becoming college, career and life ready

WHY

• Education is a civil right• Educational Systems have a history of pervasive

inequity• Educational excellence and equity are inseparable• EGUSD has persistent and significant gaps of

achievement, opportunity, and access• It is central to the mission of the EGUSD

Our leadership and collective actions must impact the system and change the outcome

Recent Actions• 2015 - 2016

• Office of Educational Equity Established• EGUSD Board of Education approved funding for Program Specialist –

Office of Educational Equity (OEE)

• 2016 - 2017• EGUSD Board of Education approved $100,000 to support the functions

of the OEE. Work included:• Formation of Educational Equity Strategic Planning team• Board Policy/Administrative Regulation analysis and development• Conducted Educational Equity research• Decision Making Model systematically applied – deep data analysis,

gap/cause analysis, determination of needs and related actions/services, identification of goals and measures

• 2017 - 2018• Completed (DRAFT) Educational Equity Board Policy and Administrative

Regulation• Completed (DRAFT) Educational Equity Strategic Plan

EGUSD Educational Equity Strategic Planning Team Members

Theory of Action

• IF The Elk Grove Unified School District believes that equity is a fundamental component to student success, and when all staff focus on promoting equity to close the persistent gaps of opportunity, access, achievement, expectations, and resources where equality and non-discrimination are:

• Integrated into the mindset, work and lives of every student, teacher, and staff member

• Recognized as core institutional values and informs thinking, policies, and practices throughout our schools

• Inherently intertwined with academic excellence and the goal of developing leaders for a globally inclusive society

• THEN we will ensure decisions, policies, and practices are supportive of students’ learning, growth, and development fostering the ultimate goal of all students becoming college, career, and life ready.

Systemic Change

• The Elk Grove Unified School District’s overarching equity goal is to:

• Set in motion long-term change to create a climate and culture that demands and supports systemic equity to improve student success while narrowing the current and persistent gaps of achievement, opportunity and access.

Public Schools in a Democracy: The Moral Imperative

“You don’t have to go very far into the question of the role of public schools in a democracy before discovering that moral purpose is at the heart of the matter.”

“As the main institution for fostering social cohesion in an increasingly diverse society, publicly funded schools must serve all children, not simply those with the loudest or most powerful advocates. This means addressing the cognitive and social needs of all children, with an emphasis on including those who may not have been well served in the past.”

Michael Fullan, The Moral imperative of School Leadership, 2003

February 20 - HOW

• How we are engaged in Educational Equity work• A 3-Step Structured Approach:

1. Board Policy/Administrative Regulation Review2. Development of an Educational Equity Framework – Ensuring

commonality of the language, purpose and scope of the work3. Strategic Plan development

• Assembling an Educational Equity Strategic Planning Team –Broad and Diverse Membership

• Use of a research-based, quality improvement process – The Decision Making Model

• Data Analysis• Gap/Cause Analyses• Determination of action/s• Accurate measurement of progress• Communicating results