Playbook: Equity

equity.png For each of our NEW SCHOOL Principles, we provide a Pathway that attempts to tell the story of a school on a journey towards putting a Principle into practice. These narratives are only approximations, because (a) every school is different (b) change is not as linear as this. It’s messy, imperfect, iterative. To apply the metaphor of a ‘pathway’, it’s often one step forward and several in reverse. The spirit of our pathways is simply to provide ‘ a portrait of possibility’. It’s offering a picture of what progress might look like, as it’s easier to imagine something if we can see a possible model. 

We offer four moments in time along this journey, for schools to reflect on their current reality and imagine what might be next:

  • Thinking about it...What might it look like when your school is “thinking about” the Evidence Principle? (This can involve a range of applications, stakeholders and ideas, beyond a single point in time or a right answer.)
  • Working on it...What might it look like when your school is “working on” the Evidence Principle?
  • Living it...What might it look like when your school is “living” this Principle? 
  • Transforming it...If you get this far along the continuum, what would a transformation of your school’s relationship with the Evidence Principle look like in practice? How would you tell that story?

Connecting It…

Making connections to each of the Principles, while putting one in the center, we offer a narrative description of what types of connections among and between the seven principles might exist.

When you see this Principle holistically with the other 6 New School Principles, what might those connections look like in practice? What is unleashed? What do (might) you see? What do you think? What do you wonder?