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    This document summarizes the findings of an equity audit conducted at a school. The equity audit team was diverse and examined data on teacher demographics, student achievement, and programmatic equity. They identified three themes: 1) The school serves students with the highest needs but has less access to resources. 2) The school aims to maintain positive district relationships but understands districts do not provide all needed student services. 3) Discussing students' challenges with parents is difficult. The team proposed solutions like hiring support staff and providing technology and mental health resources. Overall, the audit process facilitated important discussions around equity and advocacy.

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    This document summarizes the findings of an equity audit conducted at a school. The equity audit team was diverse and examined data on teacher demographics, student achievement, and programmatic equity. They identified three themes: 1) The school serves students with the highest needs but has less access to resources. 2) The school aims to maintain positive district relationships but understands districts do not provide all needed student services. 3) Discussing students' challenges with parents is difficult. The team proposed solutions like hiring support staff and providing technology and mental health resources. Overall, the audit process facilitated important discussions around equity and advocacy.

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    This document summarizes the findings of an equity audit conducted at a school. The equity audit team was diverse and examined data on teacher demographics, student achievement, and programmatic equity. They identified three themes: 1) The school serves students with the highest needs but has less access to resources. 2) The school aims to maintain positive district relationships but understands districts do not provide all needed student services. 3) Discussing students' challenges with parents is difficult. The team proposed solutions like hiring support staff and providing technology and mental health resources. Overall, the audit process facilitated important discussions around equity and advocacy.

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    Review of Equity Audit

    Presentation/Findings
    Jay Liedel

    Description of equity audit


    process
    The purpose is to identify and attempt to strategize
    towards making the school community more equitable for
    all students.
    Exposure to data suggesting inequity in Americas schools
    (Shame of the Nation, Discipline data, etc)
    Outline of 12 sections and introduction to rubric

    Equity Audit Team


    The team itself is comprised of 5 white females, a white
    male, an African-American female, and an African
    American male.
    4 teachers, 1 para-professional, 1 school secretary, 1
    student and the program administrator.

    Systemic Equity?
    Staff responded generally that systemic equity was of
    great importance to the student population we serve
    because or students have all been labelled with
    disabilities. Specifically, they have all been labelled as
    emotionally disturbed and this particular disability type,
    as well as students with disabilities in general, are not
    being served equitably in schools.

    School Population
    All students served in the community are special
    education students who have specifically been labelled
    with Emotional Disturbance (ED). Students are referred
    due to extreme behavioral difficulties in a traditional
    public school setting. Examples of referring behaviors
    include but are not limited to: verbal and physical
    aggression, defiance, inability to follow directions,
    disrupting the educational environment, non-attendance,
    etc.

    Equity data collected


    Teacher, Programmatic and Achievement data collected
    Formal and informal methods
    Data was collected from within our system only, we did
    not have access to district wide data due to the scope
    Graphs are provided in the report

    Documentation of discussions
    Discussion about the equity audit were had regularly with the team
    including the program administrator. Some of the conversations and
    discussions were recorded for later review to look for themes
    throughout the conversations. Some of the conclusions and
    prescriptions were amended during the presentation. The recorded
    interviews and presentation are available for review. Direct quotes
    from some of the interviews and discussions are included in this
    report in the findings/conclusions section.
    Located here: https://
    www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCqDEI-7FBUd3Ma49xWk7g

    Findings/Conclusions
    Review of the data does not indicate trends in inequity in teacher, or achievement
    domains that can be correlated to the specific learning environment (separate
    facility)
    3 themes emerged with regard to programmatic (and systemic) equity.
    1. We serve students with the highest need for services with regard to curriculum, technology,
    and mental health support, yet are in actuality accessing less. Even within our program(9-12)

    2. The program is in a unique position of being asked to maintain positive relationships with the
    districts we serve, since we serve at their pleasure, yet understanding the districts are not
    allowing access to all the services our students need.
    3. Staff identified a challenge in speaking truth to parents with regard to their childs reality in
    that our students struggle in significant ways in society and outcomes are uncertain in a
    general way.

    Solutions?
    Find/hire a qualified school/home liaison
    Find mental health support for 9-12 classroom
    Find/provide appropriate technology (attached?)

    Reflection
    The project really gave a focus to formal and informal discussions that
    were already being had in our school community.
    With every interview or discussion I had, I became more comfortable
    with talking about important subjects in a meaningful way.
    I learned that there are individuals who are willing to fight for these
    issues.
    As a team, we identified the need for attempting to apply pressure to
    the districts we serve as advocates for our students without damaging
    the relationship we currently hold. This will be challenging.

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