Equity Framework
Our Shared Definition of Equity
Equity is not about equal treatment of all students. Rather, it is about equal outcomes
achieved by individualizing the instruction and support for each and every student.
Equity is about all students succeeding, especially when measured according to differences
such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, language, family background
- the list of diversities within our students goes on and on. This effort had been
traditionally referenced as "closing the achievement gaps" between students from the
dominant White middle-class norm and students from traditionally underserved or oppressed
populations.
"Building an equity in education shifts the focus of responsibility for academic achievement from the students to the professional administrators and teachers who are the educators
in the school. Students have to do their part, but the adults in the building need to teach in a
way so that all students can succeed."
Linton, 2011
Student Equity Executive Summary
Student Equity Budget Expenditures 2015-2018
(Broad) Integrative Planning Goals
2017-19 Integrated Plan: Basic Skills Initiative, Student Equity, and Student Success and Support Program
Executive summary of the 2017-19 Integrated Plan: Basic Skills Initiative, Student Equity, and Student Success and Support Program
Student Success Integrated Planning Framework
1) Streamline Onboarding
To increase the number of students by streamlining onboarding, deepening collaborations
with high school districts, workforce agencies, and additional community partners,
in order to reflect our service population. (O/E) *SSSP, Equity
2) Reduce the Number of Excess Units
Reduce the number of excess units completed and time to complete. (R/O) *SSSP, Equity,
Basic Skills
3) Reduce the Time from Basic Skills Sequences
To reduce the time it takes students to successfully complete college-level coursework
from Math, English, and ESL from campus-wide basic skills sequences. (R/E) *Equity,
Basic Skills
4) Improve and Decrease Equity Gaps in 12 Gateway Courses
To improve course success rates and decrease equity gaps in 12 high-enrollment, gateway courses. (R) *Equity, Basic Skills
Documents
12 Gateway Courses, "From Where did this Idea Come From?"12 Gateway Courses, "An Introduction and Beginning"
12 Gateway Courses Forum, Sept. 14 (password-protected, District log-on required)
5) Reduce the Percentage on Academic and/or Progress Probation
Reduce the percentage of students on academic and/or progress probation and increase
persistence semester to semester. (R/E) *SSSP, Equity, Basic Skills