Introducing School Equity Audits

by Seed the Way

Seed the Way’s self-paced, online School Equity Audit tool enables you and your team to comprehensively assess your organization's current capacities, quantify results, and prioritize next steps toward sustainable improvements and equitable outcomes.

Comprehensively Assess

Visualize Results

Prioritize Next Steps

Services

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    Coaching & Consultation

    The coaching and consultation model is intended to be responsive to the emergent needs of participants, and ensure cohesion, effective follow up, and continued momentum in between other touch points throughout the school year. Dr. Haslam will serve as a confidential thought partner, providing tailored support to help process, plan, reflect, review documents and provide feedback, discuss resources, serve as a ‘critical friend,’ facilitate conversations, and help problem solve as needed. Agendas will be co-created; the format is conversational and could be 1:1 or small group. The coaching and consultation model includes support, resources, examples, tools, materials, insights, recommendations, research, models, and ongoing communication, and does not include prepared content, formal training, or follow up work.

    Directors & Coordinators of Equity & Inclusion

    Superintendents, District Administrators, Leadership Teams

    School Boards & System-Level Leaders

    Councils, Committees​, or Teams

    Hiring Committees 

    Policy Creation & Revision

    Curricular Revision

    Mentorship

    Coaching & Consultation is typically 60 min remote or in-person, 1-2/month

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    Professional Development

    Professional Development

    Professional development workshops are designed to be interactive, participatory, and grounded in the goals and needs of the school community. Dr. Haslam typically works with school administrators to plan content, which she delivers with supporting materials, resources, and invitations for participant feedback. Seed the Way’s approach involves both a ‘short game’ and ‘long game’, addressing pressing issues at hand with strategies and research-based recommendations, and working longterm to build a strong ‘equity lens’ that allows professionals to more effectively respond to harm and engage in critical conversations together throughout the year.

    Foundational Workshops:

    Intro to Equity Literacy, Bias, and Educational In/Equity

    Intent vs. Impact; Values-Based Responses to Harm

    Identity, Diversity, & Social Privilege

    Systems Level Workshops:

    School & Institutional Culture

    ​Inequity: Personal, Cultural, & Systemic

    School/District Mission & (Re)Vision

    Values-Centered Response to Bias & Harm at School

    Administrators & School Leaders

    Leading for Equity: Creating the Conditions for Thriving

    Equity Action Planning (multi-year)

    Developing & Implementing Effective Equity Policies​

    Professional Development workshops are typically designed as a series of 4-8 sessions and delivered in 60-90 minute workshops, virtual or in-person

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    Curriculum Development & Revision

    Curriculum Development & Revision

    Units of Study / Lesson Plans

    Formative & Summative Assessments

    Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Lenses

    Universal Design

    Ethnic Studies Curriculum

    Teacher / Student Advisory Curriculum

    PreK-12, Undergraduate, and Graduate Level Curriculum & Instructional Design

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    Speaking Engagements

    Keynote Addresses

    ​Public Speaking

    Facilitation

    Invited Panelist / Panel Moderation

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    Other Services

    Executive Counseling - Empowerment & Self-Agency

    Mentorship, Affinity-Based Support

    Professional Learning Community (PLC) Partner

    Policy or Standards Development, Review, & Evaluation

    Research (with IRB)

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    Equity Audits

    Tier 1 - One School, Up to 50 Responses

    Tier 2 - Multiple Schools, Unlimited Responses + Consultation

    Tier 3 - District Bundle with Customized Analysis, Results, and Tailored Coaching

The process Dr. Haslam facilitated over the course of two years made it possible for all administrators in the district to understand, perhaps for the first time ever, how students from historically marginalized backgrounds experience schooling in our district. The academic rigor Dr. Haslam provided during this process resulted in findings that were nuanced, detailed, and revealed a set of experiences rarely seen by an all white school administration. The findings Dr. Haslam provided were not only revelatory, they were transformative.”

— ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT, VERMONT

Questions before getting started? 

rebecca@seedtheway.com