Imagine: What would it look like, sound like, feel like if every day, in every classroom, the unlimited potential of every child were unleashed? This question — and the unwavering belief that this vision is possible — is why The Center for Leadership and Educational Equity exists. We work with educators to move educational equity from a vision to a reality in their schools.

What we Mean by Equity

At first glance, equity may seem synonymous with equality. Both terms reflect the goal for ALL students to harness their unique, unlimited potential to learn and to achieve. This aim cannot be reached by simply giving learners an “equal,” or same, education. A vision of educational equity requires that each learner gets what they need. Educators and school leaders need to take goal-driven action to disrupt oppressive systems, policies, and practices that create and sustain achievement, opportunity, and wealth gaps for historically-underserved students.