Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness: Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to develop and maintain a supportive, equitable, culturally responsive, and inclusive school culture.
Component 3.1: Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to use data to evaluate, design, cultivate, and advocate for a supportive and inclusive school culture.
Component 3.2: Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, cultivate, and advocate for equitable access to educational resources, technologies, and opportunities that support the educational success and well-being of each student.
Component 3.3: Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, cultivate, and advocate for equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive instruction and behavior support practices among teachers and staff.
NPBEA. (2018). National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) Program Standards - Building Level. Retrieved from: www.npbea.org.
Artifact 1: Below is an example of a four-day school week model that was created to support equity and inclusion. This was a group project where we used data to drive our decisions to allow for a more equitable school/work week for all. The presentation shows the realism of drafting a new school year calendar, pitching the idea to the school board with by using exact dates/timelines, and opening perspectives for the community members.
Artifact 2: Below is a link to an equity audit that I filled out pertaining to a school district where I taught. The audit covers a lot of essential questions when it comes to inclusion, diversity, and the implementation of equity within school programing. It is an audit that is solely done as reflection and shows where your school could need some potential improvement. This audit will allow building administrators to reflect open their systems and allow for change. In addition, the equity audit can produce reliable data that invites the plan, do , study, act process when it comes to allowing for program change.
Link: MAEC Criteria for an Equitable School- Equity Audit - Google Docs