Stewards for Equity
How do we create schools that work for all of us?
Cultivate a climate of relational trust, partnership, efficacy, and agency
Honor the cultural identities of self and others through equity driven policy and practices
Embrace humanity through reflection, collaboration, growth, and healing
Amplify student voice and expand impact on all learners
What are your “stewards for equity” goals?
Activate and sustain authentic partnerships between adults and students which lead to compelling, vibrant, culturally responsive learning communities
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View PD OptionsCultivate a culture of trust, belonging, healing, and efficacy that honors all stakeholders.
View PD OptionsQuality, Customized Professional Learning That Works
Our professional learning pathways all have the same goal, to advance learner ownership, efficacy, and agency. We partner with your system to assess your needs and co-construct an action plan anchored in implementation science. We are ready to help and support you at any stage of your learning journey.
Our Learning Progression
Foundational Learning
Build a shared language of learning anchored in co-constructed goals and success criteria aligned to your mission and vision.
Job-Embedded Coaching
Empower educators using the gradual release of responsibility to model, coach, monitor, and analyze progress towards shared goals.
Sustainable Systems
Advance teacher agency to ensure risk-taking, innovation, and collective efficacy through quality implementation.
Diversity-Equity-Inclusion
Youth Equity Stewardship (YES), is the only multi-generational equity pathway that activates and sustains authentic partnerships between adults and students which lead to cultivating a compelling, vibrant, and culturally responsive-sustaining learning community. This pathway is a systemic collaborative inquiry model that builds capacity to advance the seven principles of equity stewardship.
Learners of all ages collaborate through music, movement, and the visual arts to activate a “head and heart connection” with the goal of creating a student-led advisory to address complex educational challenges using an asset-based, solution-oriented process that drives continuous improvement.
High School Youth Equity Stewardship
A cohort of students and adults from across the district are trained (over five sessions throughout the year) to be YES ambassadors, prepared to organize intergenerational coalitions, deliver equity stewardship professional development, work with peers, present and advocate at governing board meetings, organize community events and work with younger students in their district.
- Engage in arts-based experiences
- Establish multi-generational advisories to amplify learner voice and drive and sustain continuous improvement
- Build inclusive learning spaces that honor all cultural identities as precious and valued
- Advocate for and guide positive shifts in your school and community
Youth Equity Stewardship
Gary Howard, Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio-Colwell
Elementary and Middle Youth Equity Stewardship
Students and teachers in the 4th-8th grades engage in arts-based experiences and age-appropriate discussions while working to develop skills and learn strategies to impact their school community as Equity Stewards. Participants focus on their personal journey, justice for all, and community action and will become certified Stewardship Schools through a two day, site level experience.
- Establish multi-generational advisories to amplify learner voice and drive and sustain continuous improvement
- Build inclusive learning spaces that honor all cultural identities as precious and valued
- Deepen understanding of equity, diversity, respect for others, personal and shared responsibility, stewardship, and community through arts-based activities
- Advocate for positive shifts in your school and community
Youth Equity Stewardship
Gary Howard, Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio-Colwell
Restorative Heartset and Mindset
Our restorative framework is the only systemic approach to creating and sustaining a culture that is rooted in self, healing, and relational literacy. Restorative minded learning organizations recognize that harm in life and work is inevitable and are committed to restoring and growing from these incidents with their staff and communities.
Building the Foundation for Connection
Build a restorative culture that supports meaningful connections with students, staff and families.
- Leverage collective decision making for shared responsibility
- Re-examine and reset a restorative mission and vision
- Co-construct community agreements and core beliefs
Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing
Marisol Quevedo Rerucha
The Mindset and Heartset of Restorative Practices
Humans that strive to live a restorative heartset and mindset embrace their own humanity, and that of others, through reflection, growth, vulnerability, and healing.
- Promote deep reflection to build community
- Practice centering techniques for reacting to other’s actions
- Participate in check-in/check-out, circles, and mediation
- Practice having difficult conversations
- Co-design a strategic plan for systemic quality implementation
Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing
Marisol Quevedo Rerucha
Restorative Leadership Coaching
How do you embrace authenticity and vulnerability while guiding others to do the same? The work of the school leader is challenging, difficult, and filled with rewarding moments that provide a consistent spark that maintains the commitment and joy in the work.
- Model restorative and resiliency practices that promote healing and well being of individuals and communities
- Create space for your school community to connect, heal, and grow
- Receive resources to lead this work
Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing
Marisol Quevedo Rerucha
Included Schools and Systems
How does your system ensure belonging, equity, and inclusion? Included Schools and Systems is a community-driven, evidence based, and systemic learning framework that requires all stakeholders to be seen, heard, and valued. Cultivating a culture of trust, belonging, healing, and efficacy transcends any diversity and equity initiative and is at the root of human connectedness and is vital to advance learner agency.
Included Schools Foundational Learning and Coaching
Learner agency is grounded in the core belief that all members of a learning community have the ability and the will to positively impact their own lives and the world around them.
- Reset core beliefs, mission, and vision through the lens of identity
- Explore the relationship between trust, belonging, and efficacy
- Develop an evidence-based inquiry blueprint anchored in root-cause
- Explore and ensure cultural competence through equity coaching
- Analyze and strengthen actions that build self-collective efficacy
Amplify Learner Voice Through Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Assessment
Paul J. Bloomberg, Ed.D., Kara Vandas, Ingrid Twyman, Vivett Dukes, Rachel Carrillo Fairchild, Connie Hamilton and Isaac Wells
Included Student Voice Circles
Advancing learner agency requires communities to amplify student voices! Our student-facing series includes teaching learners facilitation skills on how to continually maintain and engage their voice while giving them space and time to explore complex cultural subject matter.
- Explore complex cultural subject matter.
- Advance learner agency system-wide.
- Develop students’ facilitation skills.
Amplify Learner Voice Through Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Assessment
Paul J. Bloomberg, Ed.D., Kara Vandas, Ingrid Twyman, Vivett Dukes, Rachel Carrillo Fairchild, Connie Hamilton and Isaac Wells
The Included Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Classroom
How does your system create conditions for learner self-empowerment? We partner with school communities to build collective understanding of culturally responsive-sustaining education by examining and elevating current beliefs, practices, and policies so that all students receive an equitable education, have a voice, and are empowered as social agents of change.
- Define and apply the key tenets of culturally responsive teaching.
- Explore and experience the critical practices of classroom culture.
- Explore cultural identity, beliefs, and influence student behaviors.
- Practice response protocols that support connection with others.
Amplify Learner Voice Through Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Assessment
Paul J. Bloomberg, Ed.D., Kara Vandas, Ingrid Twyman, Vivett Dukes, Rachel Carrillo Fairchild, Connie Hamilton and Isaac Wells
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