Initiate Equity

Initiate Equity is on a mission to help educators understand the role race, ethnicity, and culture play in providing an equitable education to all children. Our work frames both the systemic challenges that contribute to racialized achievement outcomes, and centers the questions that can support their mitigation and reversal. How do schools serve all students in ways that are inclusive of their background? How do educators and school systems factor in the specific cultural and linguistic needs students bring into the classroom? What are the systemic barriers causing certain racial, ethnic and cultural groups to remain under-achieving and/or under-served? How can schools be more proactive and responsive to these complex realities? Initiate Equity works to support schools and school systems to answer these questions by applying social justice framework to education. At Initiate Equity, we train educators to develop a liberatory pedagogy that improves the academic achievement of students and centers their socio-political needs.