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Systematic Equity
A system-wide analysis of data that is used to
Section 1
Discussion with School Leader: Middle School Principal
Section 2
Equity Audit Team Members
Section 3
How members of the Louisville community understand Systematic Equity
Decision-making
Based on past practice; present need; based upon equal
treatment of everyone
Policy-making
Reflection of the community
Policies possess elements of inequity that are
Staff Member 1
Equity means being unbiased & impartial
Teachers role is to educate, thus
equipping/empowering/encouraging is done
through educating the student
It becomes the individual students/persons decision
whether or not to speak up or take action
Staff Member 2
Equity means equal opportunity & is inclusive of
Section 4
Description of Louisville Districts Schools
grades K-2 and all of grades three, four and five. The
students benefit from features like computers with
CD-ROMs in each classroom, a technology lab, a
guidance program and a science program, to name
a few.
Section 5
Equity Data Collected
Teacher Education
100% of teachers district-wide hold Bachelors
degrees.
Teacher Certification
100% of the teachers at the school are qualified to
teach what they are teaching.
Section 6
Programmatic Equity
Gifted and Talented
Special Education
Discipline
Bilingual None attending
At the MS, enriched classes in all core subject areas were created just
this year. (Prior years, there was only Enriched Math and ELA)
Students designated gifted in a certain subject are placed into
that enriched class.
No special gifted program enriched, AP, honors classes are
the sole source of service for these children
Middle School
Elementary Schools
Section 7
Achievement Equity Data
Achievement Equity
Graduation Rates
Ability Grouping
Louisville Middle Schools offers Enriched Science,
Enriched Social Studies, Enriched Algebra, and
Enriched Language Arts, for which only students
who are listed as gifted are placed into these
classes.
Section 8
Documentation of Conversations on Equity with:
Principal
Equity Audit Team
Teachers
Principal
Jason
Greathouse
Questionnaire
Staff Members
A questionnaire was placed at Cindys Blog site. All of the
Middle School Staff were invited to take the questionnaire. Two
questionnaires were completed:
Section 9
Findings & Conclusions drawn from the data
Section 10
Research-based Solutions drawn from the data
Suggested
Solution
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/schooldiscipline/index.html
Section 11
Documentation of Presentation to Equity Audit Team
Meeting set
Cindy has sent the presentation to Jason
Section 12
Individual Reflections on Educational Equity in Schools
Our thoughts:
As an outsider to Louisville schools, Ive been able to
take a step back from biases or even community
members perspectives and focus purely on the data.
The data is alarming in some vital areas. Overhaul of
the discipline system seems necessary and warranted
considering the data on students with specific learning
disabilities and students of color.
Even with all of the data we collected, we know
some inequities lie outside of the research. Its a
school administrators role to find ways to measure
and evaluate these inequities. We will continue to learn
creative ways to spot these inequities as we grow in
the program.
The End