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SFUSD outlines equity studies rollout, forms task force and internal team

San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education · January 28, 2020
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District staff presented plans to expand an equity-studies framework across grades K–12, pilot culturally responsive curriculum and libraries, and convene an internal equity team plus a community task force to guide implementation and metrics.

San Francisco Unified School District officials on Wednesday laid out a yearlong plan to implement an equity studies framework across the district, emphasizing curriculum pilots, professional learning and community oversight.

At a Board of Education meeting, district presenters described equity studies as an approach informed by ethnic studies and humanizing pedagogy, centered on three principles—knowledge and love of self, solidarity, and self-determination. "Humanization occurs when power is used to offer opportunity to people that have been marginalized, dispossessed, objectified, and or exploited," a district presenter said…

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