Equity and Access
SLCUSD’s goals for equity are to eliminate educational barriers and provide equal educational opportunities for all students to meet rigorous academic standards.
Equality - Everyone gets the same - regardless if it's needed or right for them.
Equity - Everyone gets what they need - understanding the barriers, circumstances, and conditions.
San Luis Coastal Equity Roadmap
Growing Students Who Thrive
SLCUSD has a significant responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to affirm and support every student’s potential to achieve. Doing so requires eliminating barriers and creating and maintaining a system in which every student thrives. The Equity Roadmap is meant to create common understanding and provide a solutions-focused narrative with embedded data spotlighting three high impact areas: Academics, Student Well-Being, and Personnel. Each area has three recommendations (below) and each recommendation has three specific actions detailed in the Roadmap. The Roadmap compliments and supports the Board Priorities, the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), and the overall District budget.
Academics
Eliminate barriers
We must take action to identify and eliminate the systems that perpetuate inequities so that instead of creating barriers, our systems affirm student and support them in achieving their full potential.
Leverage the power of teachers, site leaders, and school staff
With self-awareness, teachers, site leaders, and school staff have the power to promote growth for every student.
Shape an inclusive worldview
Both underrepresented and dominant culture students benefit from curricula (books, lessons, projects, activities) that reflect a range of human experience.
Student Well-Being
Deepen student/family and school relationships
Relationships matter. Schools, students, and families work in partnership to support students in achieving their full potential.
Provide windows and mirrors
To thrive, students should see their identities, experiences, and motivations accurately represented in the curriculum, while also having the opportunity to gain insight into the identities, experiences, and motivations of others.
Support every student being ready to learn, every day
This includes systematically ensuring concrete resources such as family support, mental health/counseling, affirming and sustaining environments, and social-emotional learning.
Personnel
Recruit and hire staff who reflect the student body
It is important for students to see themselves reflected across school personnel, including leadership.
Create welcoming work environments for people of all backgrounds
School climate and community building is a major facet of the work to eliminate educational barriers.
Train staff around recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and retention
For students to succeed, adults must have the knowledge and abilities to hire staff that represents the student body.
2021-2022 Equity Roadmap documents
These are living documents that will be revised periodically. They were created by the SLCUSD Equity Leadership Team to provide guidance for District work.