CHANGE GOAL

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

1. We center and amplify the voices, experiences and expertise of people in school communities who are feeling marginalized and oppressed to shift power to them.
2. We engage with students and families to understand their histories, current impacts of inequity in education, and co-create solutions.
3. We work in partnership with school district employees who have the power to institutionalize systemic change and are committed to taking action.
4. We develop relationships/partnerships with those working for equity in education and in other interconnected systems who bring us the “greatest leverage” to support our transformational goals.
5. We highlight the school equity crisis, shift ideologies (disruption of status quo narratives) and/or build capacity and skills, meeting school communities wherever they are in their journey to equity.

• Administrators, educators and other school staff are racially and socially conscious as well as “equity literate.”
• Students are at the center (empowered students supported by conscious, critically-thinking adults).
• School environments are connected, culturally affirming, and restorative.
• Curriculum is meaningfully multicultural: it is reflective of students in the school and honest about the true histories of genocide, enslavement, and resistance.
• Student and family voice, community assets, and intergenerational wisdom are all centered and valued in decision making and accountability processes.
• School systems maintain a climate and conditions that attract teachers and administrators of color and culturally competent white educators.
• Funding for schools is equitable on a statewide level and within districts.
• There is a clear and continuous process to identify and address inequities so when harm occurs, the relationships can be repaired and restored.