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Equity: Create an environment of being fair, impartial and free from racism, bias, or favoritism, promote educational and employment attainment and eliminating the achievement gap for all students including, but not limited to, English language learners and students with disabilities in the K–14+ college and career pathway system beyond the reduction of institutional barriers.
Access: Ensure that all students are provided ample opportunities to attain the necessary skills, education and training required to maximize their individual goals including a collective awareness of all the supports that are available to students both inside and out of class, facilitating the elimination of the achievement gap by providing information on how to access programs, services, and rigorous coursework for all California students regardless of region, gender, socio-economic status, special needs, and/or English proficiency. Includes creating pathways with demonstrable careers for students.
Essential Elements: CDE Guiding Policy Principles to Support Student-Centered K-14+ Pathways
Equity is “a conception of educational justice, in which the causes of inequity are addressed and systemic barriers are removed, rather than simply ameliorated.”
Dr. Tameka McGlawn
Access – The institutions’ responsiveness to individual students’ unique social, economic, and cultural conditions to ensure all students have equal opportunities to take full advantage of their education, including a collective awareness of all the supports both inside and out of class that are available to them.
Equality – This is the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and educational and training opportunities or proportionality to reflect the communities being served.
Equity – To systemically create an environment of being fair and impartial, and be free from bias or favoritism to promote educational and employment attainment among all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities.
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Resources
The K12 SWP Equity Framework provides an approach to developing programs from a starting point of eliminating systemic barriers and outlines how data should be used in this context. Slides 2-24 & 43-55 are general and useful training for anyone working to create equitable CTE pathways.
Understanding your environment: The Building for Equity School Self-Assessment Tool developed by the Center for Collaborative Education can be used to think critically about your environments readiness for equity initiatives.
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) offers a Program Improvement Process for Equity (PIPE). It is a research-based institutional change model and professional development program designed to increase the participation and success of underrepresented students in nontraditional CTE programs. This model is an example of a way to engage Advisory Boards evaluating and improving equity & access for students.
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