Equity Specialist Job Description/Roles and Duties RESPONSIBILITIES Facilitate communication between students, parents, and school staff to ensure student achievement. Act as a consultant to teachers, administrators and other staff regarding culture, heritage and background for students and families. Serve as a bridge between the schools and families and advocate of educational equity for all students and families. Work with principals to develop a positive building climate that leads to educational equity and student achievement for all students. Work with the building head principal to create equity presentations for staff. Work with building teams designated to analyze school data (Equity team, Professional Learning Committee, Positive Behavior Intervention Systems, and Data Teams) to develop action plans to ensure educational equity for all students. Establish and develop strong community relationships (colleges and universities, religious, social services) to cultivate the possibilities of college from elementary to high school, engage in service learning, and to provide our students and families with community resources. Facilitate student s empowerment, social, racial, academic, and identity development groups. Monitor students academic progress and work with other building staff to develop academic success plans for students. Responsible for the management of Choice is Yours (C.I.Y) student enrollment and developing relationships with staff to ensure student achievement for C.I.Y students within the building. Develop monthly data/ reports that support educational equity activities. Collaborate with staff to provide supplemental culturally relevant experiential learning opportunities in and out of the classroom that will help maximize understanding of core standards curriculum content and introduce equity, race, pluralism, and social justice education. Work with the development of after school programs funded by the Department of Integration and Equity and American Indian Education. Participate in facilitating district wide staff development trainings, building wide staff development trainings, and district academies.
Work collaboratively with the department of Integration and Equity & American Indian Education colleagues on various activities. Assist school personnel to insure that due process procedures are followed at all times. Work as part of the building support, and administration. Help to develop successful integration (curriculum, pedagogy delivery, parent involvement, student voice, and critical examination of institutional racism) that leads to educational equity and student achievement. Other tasks as assigned by head principal that further the efforts towards racial equity and student achievement.
Equity Specialists This position of the Equity Specialist is to support student career and college readiness, healthy racial identity, interrupt institutional racist systems, and provide professional development for staff to enhance cultural proficiency and racial consciousness within the school in order to create racially equitable schools. 60% direct student contact: 5 hrs per day (Facilitation of inter racial, racial, social and academic groups and/or with individual students, creating spaces of racial affinity for students of color, empowering student voice from students of color) facilitating students/staff mediations, helping to implement NUA strategies and PBIS, and executing actions that applies to student data and progress We will be utilizing a research based curriculum. Individuals in this role will be responsible for
educational equity. 1. DREAMs, Dare2BeReal, etc. 2. Student leadership groups 4. Student Meeting (In take, etc.) 5. Mentoring/Tutoring (selected schools) 6. Partnership/Collaboration with other Equity Specialists/buildings 7. Service Learning, experiential learning, etc. 8. College Readiness 9. Career Readiness 10. Student collaboration with Indian Ed. 11. All duties as assigned by the Depart of Integration, Equity and Indian Ed. 12. Mediate meets/conversations between staff and students 13. Classroom visits 20% indirect student contact: 1.5 hr per day (Facilitation of inter racial, racial, social and academic groups and/or with individual staff, creating spaces of racial affinity for students of color, empowering student voice from students of color) We will be utilizing a research based curriculum. Individuals in this role will be responsible for educational equity. 1. Monitor disproportionality, IE, Special Education, disparity, referrals, and suspensions 1. Equity Committee (E team) 2. Equity PD 3. Staff Meeting (RTI, Case Study, etc.) 4. District Committees, meetings, etc. (please refer to end of this section) 5. Weekly/Monthly Communiques 15% direct family engagement: 1.2 hr per day (coordination of family nights, parent academies and host parent listening sessions). We will be utilizing a research based curriculum. Individuals in this role will be responsible for helping to implement district initiatives to increase student achievement by achieving educational equity. 1. Parents As Our Partners 2. Lead or Co Lead Family Events
3. Parent communications 5% direct community relations:.5 hr per day Focused on bringing in community resources to support students, families and the school. We will be utilizing a research based curriculum. Individuals in this role will be responsible for educational equity. 1. Family events 2. Fades for Grades