Initiatives / Racial Equity / Current Work
Current Work
In the third year of our Racial Equity work, we're directly supporting 6 schools each receiving $10,000 to support implementation of racial equity projects focused on equitable literacy and sense of belonging.
Schools participate in:
- Monthly school-based equity meetings with educators, students, and families
- Root-Cause Analysis around a specific racial equity and literacy problem
- Develop and implement action plans to advance racial equity and equitable literacy
- Data analysis and research activities to measure impact of actions
Collective cohort work includes:
- 10 cohort convenings (across 2 years) to engage in technical assistance, professional development, and cross-school/ cross-organization learning
- Collective analysis of conditions that work to advance equitable literacy outcomes and strengthen student/family sense of belonging
- Collective development of recommendations to build school and district capacity to sustain and scale lessons learned, including policy and practice shifts.
EdVestors launched the Racial Equity Networked Improvement Community (NIC) in 2021 as a Research Practice Partnership with Boston Public Schools (BPS) Office of Opportunity Gaps and Boston University researchers to build the capacity of Boston schools to understand, implement, and shape conditions that disrupt and dismantle racial inequities in school systems. The Racial Equity Report: Orienting Networked Improvement Communities for Equity examines how the Research Practice Partnership (RPP) members co-facilitated and adapted a Networked Improvement Community Model with an equity lens to achieve this aim.
