As you continue to test new ideas to solve educational challenges through CI, check out the resources and online equity survey tools to help center equity at each stage.
This resource provides guiding questions, an engaging webinar recording, and additional resources and tools to identify how to center equity in your community. The Mini Equity Audit can be used to ground your thinking as you explore the ways equity shows up in your continued COVID-19 response strategy.
MAEC’s CI4E Resource Hub offers an online survey tool to explore how you and your team center equity at the Testing Interventions stage. Afterward, you’ll receive a custom resource list that supports an equity-driven continuous improvement process.
Description: The online survey tool contains a series of equity questions for each CI stage that serve as an entry point for improvement teams to examine how their leadership, structures, and processes support equity work and areas to consider.
When using this resource, keep in mind: Intentionally infusing, prioritizing, and sustaining equity practices to an improvement project often requires a mindset change for those engaged in this work. Teams should consider the following areas during the planning and implementation of the improvement process:
• Representation: How your team’s knowledge, social identities, and biases impact your work
• Structures: How the design of your team’s systems embed or disrupt equity
• Process: How equity plays a role in your team’s decision-making
• Measuring success and sharing learning: How accessible are testing interventions to the
communities you serve
This video demonstrates how to use a KidStat data protocol with a group of participants across a range of roles, as they engage in a strengths-based, holistic conversation about student success. In this meeting, the data team follows four steps: student data review, strengths, growth areas, and action steps.
This slide outlines CT RISE's data pipeline and can be used as an example of how to display and visualize effective data pathways.
MAEC’s CI4E Resource Hub offers an equity-focused online survey tool to explore how your team centers equity at the Creating a Collaborative and Diverse Team stage. Afterward, you’ll receive a custom resource list that supports an equity-driven continuous improvement process.
Description: The online survey tool contains a series of equity questions for each CI stage that serve as an entry point for improvement teams to examine how their leadership, structures, and processes support equity work and areas to consider.
When using this resource, keep in mind: Intentionally infusing, prioritizing, and sustaining equity practices to an improvement project often requires a mindset change for those engaged in this work. Teams should consider the following areas during the planning and implementation of the improvement process:
• Representation: How your team’s knowledge, social identities, and biases impact your work
• Structures: How the design of your team’s systems embed or disrupt equity
• Process: How equity plays a role in your team’s decision-making
This "5 Whys Protocol" is intended to help investigate root causes and problems of practice and to help ground root cause in systems challenges and not student characteristics.
Shift has created a series of engaging videos that introduce tools to support your improvement journey. From employing empathy in project design to developing effective measures of success, these videos can help you create a baseline understanding of continuous improvement. Your team can also use them to get the most out of a convening or coaching session. The videos are easy to share with teachers, students, and others you want to bring into your CI efforts. To see the videos in this introductory series, visit www.shift-results.com/online-learning.
As you continue to test out new ideas through CI, check out these resources to ensure equity is the core of every idea.
The resources in this collection will help your team explore different approaches used by schools and districts with 9th grade on-track goals. You will be able to access protocols, research, tools, and exemplars that offer evidence-based approaches to improvement in this area.
