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Vision for Closing Opportunity Gaps in Boston Public Schools
Vision for Closing Opportunity Gaps in Boston Public Schools
What does it mean to close – to eliminate forever – the opportunity and achievement gaps currently confronting students of color? While there are many components to this vision, we believe, at its most basic, that it means this:
Every child, in every classroom, in every school of the Boston Public School system has the same opportunity to achieve the greatness within them as anybody else. Every child has the same unfettered access to every conceivable tool to unlock the greatness within them. And we will know that they have that access because we will witness them achieve that greatness: enrolling and completing college at the same rates as anyone else; breaking into professions and positions of conspicuous influence in the community; and, along the way, reducing to a distant memory the opportunity and achievement gaps that had afflicted every generation before them.
In the long history of the United States, no city has yet to fully realize this vision. If there is any city in the Nation poised to bring this vision to pass, it is Boston. Boston would be the first. And it must be.
--Preamble to Opportunity and Achievement Gap Policy 2016
BPS Mission, Vision, & Theory of Action
Mission
Every child in every classroom in every school gets what they need.
Vision
A nation-leading, student-centered public school district providing an equitable, and excellent, well-rounded education that prepares every student for success in college, career, and life.
Theory of Action
If we, as a system:
provide high-quality tier-one instruction that is culturally affirming and tailored based on the assets and needs of students;
implement a strong multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) with evidence-based tier two and tier three interventions;
build the collective capacity of all leaders and educators;
ensure students across the city have access to inclusive settings aligned to family choice; and,
continuously monitor progress toward universal expectations at the district, school, and classroom level.
Then our students, most specifically our Black and Latinx students, students with disabilities, multilingual learners with and without disabilities, and our students who have not had strong, equitable access to MTSS and inclusive educational opportunities, will accelerate progress and BPS will close and work toward elimination of disparities in achievement and opportunity.
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