Booker T. Washington MS54
Equity Team Mission Statement
Booker T. Washington Middle School has established an Equity Team whose goals include enhancing and improving efforts to ensure academic success by closing opportunity gaps and providing equitable and inclusive working and learning environments for all students, families, staff and communities. Additionally, it is intended that increase in diversity and equity and establishing these conversations will lead to tangible and intangible results such as increased cultural understanding and decreased discipline rates. The specific goals of the Equity Team will be determined by its committee so that we can determine the focus most appropriate for our school.
The NYC Department of Education has established the Equity and Excellence for All program with the intention of supporting diversity in New York City public schools. For the NYC Department of Education "Equity" means meeting every student where they are, and providing the support, resources, and high expectations for them to achieve at consistently high levels.
District 3 has asked that all schools create a distinct Equity Team comprised of parents, students, faculty and administration to begin the process of assessing what equity and diversity means for their school community and begin the process of establishing an open dialogue.
The definition of diversity includes: Socio-economic, Region, Disability, Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, Language, Age, Religion.
The DOE is committed to creating and supporting learning environments that reflect the diversity of New York City and with the belief that all students benefit from diverse and inclusive schools and classrooms.
EQUITY TEAM STEERING COMMITTEE
Ms. Randee Johnson (teacher) , Ms. Naomi Tsai (teacher) and Dr. Judy Scott-Clayton (parent) are the MS54 Equity Team Steering Committee. They can be reached by email at equity@ms54pta.org
equity team meetings |
EQUITY INFORMATION / NEWS |
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All meetings take place in Room 133.
10/29 at 8 AM 11/19 at 6 PM 12/6 at 8 AM 1/24 at 6:30 PM CEC3 America to Me screening 2/6 at 7:30 AM 3/29 at 7:30 am 4/17 at 5 PM Discussion with Matt Gonzales, Appleseed's Director of School Diversity, about closing the achievement gaps. 6/12 5:30 - 7 PM Teacher-facilitated discussion to deepen our thinking, share resources for summertime learning, and look ahead to our goals for the coming year 
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We recommend the following resources if you are interested in learning more about equity in education and how to engage in productive conversations about race.
Podcast: The Integrated Schools Podcast Reading: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo School Diversity Advisory Group - Making The Grade: The Path to Real Integration and Equity for NYC Public School Students (Feb. 2019) - Click HERE Showcase Schools Resources - Click HERE Lost at School Activity Packet Collaborative Problem Solving Packet Equity vs. Equality in the Classroom article - Click HERE D3 Equity Team Survey on Diversity - click HERE From The Center for Racial Justice in Education: Resource Guide for Parents to Talk About Race Racism is Real video (3 minutes) Children are not Colorblind article Lens of Systemic Oppression article Youth TAC-D (Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality) There's Something in the Water - Summer Institute Presentation Equity team memos |
definitions of terms
Equality
Educational equality is the principle of allocating educational resources with an emphasis on the equal distribution of inputs without attention given to the corresponding outputs
Equity
Educational equity is the principle of altering current practices and perspectives to teach for social transformation and to promote equitable learning outcomes for students for all social groups.
Opportunity
Educational opportunity is equitable inputs in order to attain equitable outputs.
Diversity
The DOE is committed to creating and supporting learning environments that reflect the diversity of New York City. Diversity includes: racial background, cultural identity, socioeconomic status, home language, country of origin, immigration status, ability, special needs, religion, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, housing status, life experience
Disproportionality
Disproportionality is the over-representation of a specific group in special education programs or disciplinary outcomes relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population, and/or the under-representation of a specific group in accessing intervention services, resources, programs, rigorous curriculum and instruction relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population.
Educational equality is the principle of allocating educational resources with an emphasis on the equal distribution of inputs without attention given to the corresponding outputs
Equity
Educational equity is the principle of altering current practices and perspectives to teach for social transformation and to promote equitable learning outcomes for students for all social groups.
Opportunity
Educational opportunity is equitable inputs in order to attain equitable outputs.
Diversity
The DOE is committed to creating and supporting learning environments that reflect the diversity of New York City. Diversity includes: racial background, cultural identity, socioeconomic status, home language, country of origin, immigration status, ability, special needs, religion, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, housing status, life experience
Disproportionality
Disproportionality is the over-representation of a specific group in special education programs or disciplinary outcomes relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population, and/or the under-representation of a specific group in accessing intervention services, resources, programs, rigorous curriculum and instruction relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population.