Leading an Equitable Learning Culture

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Leading an Equitable Learning Culture Micro-Credential requires that the practitioner demonstrates proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the practitioner’s ability to cultivate the importance of equity to support a strong positive learning opportunity; create a system that ensures each student is known and valued: inspire staff members, students, and parents to recognize and resolve issues of inequities establish a continuous self-improvement plan with strategies, implementation timelines, self-evaluation, and a monitoring process to ensure the practitioner is leading an equitable learning culture which enhances learning and organizational improvement. “Equity exists when there are no systematic differences in the distribution of conditions, practices, and results based upon race, ethnicity, gender, economic status, or any other relevant characteristics” (CDE, 2010, p. 6).

Essential Outcomes – Leading an Equitable Learning Culture includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Cultivate the importance of equity to support strong positive learning opportunities.
2. Create a system that ensures each student is known and valued.
3. Motivate, support, and assist staff members, students, and parents to recognize and resolve issues of inequities.
4. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practice in leading an equitable learning culture for students, staff and organizational improvement.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What resources and supports have you implemented to promote positive equity learning opportunities that address diversity among cultures, gender, communities and sexual orientation for students, staff and stakeholders?
2. What processes and procedures have you established to ensure a positive learning environment is identified, addressed and monitored for each student? What has been implemented to ensure individual students’ social emotional needs have been identified addressed and monitored?
3. What strategies have you used to support staff members, students and parents to recognize and resolve issues of inequities? Explain which strategies have been the most successful?
4. What process have you used successfully for developing a plan that ensures leading an equitable and learning culture?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Leading an Equitable Learning Culture Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Leading an Equitable Learning Culture (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the process used to promote evidence-based strategies, including protocols for conducting self-evaluation, data analysis, observations, and providing actionable and timely feedback. This could also include testimonials from teachers, students or other stakeholders on changes of practice that lead to higher levels of equitable practices for their students. Include a reflection about the impact on your equitable skills, mindsets (mindscapes), professional practices, and how you will continue to apply it in the future.