School Racial Equity Plans 

Development and Monitoring of School Racial Equity Plans

• Each school will be required to complete and submit to the Diversity, Equity, Poverty (DEP) Department their Equity Monitoring Progress Tool (EMPT) during the spring of each school year.  A team from DEP will review each school’s EMPT and provide feedback to the area assistant superintendent and executive administrator/s by the end of June.  Assistant superintendents and/or executive administrators will meet with school leadership to go over the results of the EMPT and provide feedback.  In turn, each school’s Racial Equity Committee (REC) will develop their Racial Equity Plan, including SMART Goal(s) based on opportunities for growth and feedback as identified in their submitted EMPT.  SMART Goals should be outcome driven; including measurables from their Equity Scorecard and/or other relevant data, i.e. student academic, sense of belonging data, etc.  Each school will submit a Google form and attach their Racial Equity Plan document by the end of August. As a means to monitor progress, each school’s REC will report progress on their SMART goal/s and action steps via Google form in October, December (mid-year), February,  and April (end of year).  For more support and guidance regarding the completion of the EMPT, please access the EMPT Guidebook.

School Racial Equity Committees  

Each school will have a Racial Equity Committee (REC).  The REC should assume responsibility for monitoring the progress towards the achievement of the action steps & SMART goal/s associated with the domain focus from the EMPT.  RECs must meet at minimum monthly, but are free to meet as often as possible. Each school will complete this FORM indicating the members of their REC, including chair & co-chair with contact information.  This form shall be submitted at the end of August when schools submit their racial equity plan.