Associate Superintendent of Educational Equity?<\/a><\/p>\nSECOND EQUITY LEADERSHIP TEAM MEETING (06\/05-\/14) for 2014<\/b><\/p>\n
This meeting was held at Horizonte Alternative High School. The meeting started off oddly enough, with Superintendent McKell Withers stating that he rejected the idea of the district adding an Associate Superintendent of Educational Equity and Diversity<\/b><\/span> within the organization of the district. He went on to recount all of the \u201cgood things\u201d the district is doing for students of color.<\/p>\nHe stated that those in the community that were calling for an Associate Superintendent of Educational Equity and Diversity were \u201cuninformed\u201d and were damaging their \u201cown creditability\u201d. \u00a0He made other critical comments about the idea, but I didn’t hear any support for what he was saying from those in attendance. He answered a couple of questions and then prematurely left the meeting. So he \u201cspoke his truth\u201d<\/em> but didn\u2019t \u201cstay engaged\u201d<\/em> and avoided \u201cexperiencing discomfort\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe balance of the meeting revolved around the need to weave equity into all aspects of the district. Several times in the meeting, I pointed out that the deficiencies being discussed are easily solved with the shepherding of an Associate Superintendent of Educational Equity and Diversity<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\nI for one remain convinced that our district will not see substantive change until changes are made to the organizational structure of the school district. The status quo is simply not working, no matter how much the school superintendent yells from the roof top that all is well.<\/p>\n
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This past Thursday (06\/05\/2014) the Salt Lake City School District held its second Equity Leadership Team Meeting for 2014. BACKGROUND: The Equity Leadership Team had its inception in the district, in 2008. The September 1, 2009, School Board meeting the minutes sate the following: \u201cKathleen Christy and Curtis Linton, School Improvement Network, told board members tonight\u2019s report would provide a brief history of the Equity Leadership Team. Mr. Linton said the group was formed last … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,88,70,66,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}