2022 Advancing Educational Equity and Excellence: Webinar Series
Type
Webinar
Start Date
8-3-2022 3:30 PM
End Date
8-3-2022 4:30 PM
Description
Considering there is a national and global equity focused call to action, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) engaged in a process to institutionalize and operationalize Equity and Excellence to address educational inequities. This process included creating an educational case for engaging in Equity and Excellence, policy development, capacity building to engage in equity work, an inclusive and comprehensive data collection methodology, data meaning making, as well as an equity and excellence plan and scorecard development. Thus, this 2-session presentation will provide participants with an understanding of educational equity, share tools to assist educational institutions in drafting data-informed equity and excellence policy/plans, as well as provide a framework to score and measure progress in advancing equity. It will further share how to approach equity and excellence in an inclusive manner, as well as how to confront any resistance that may arise from educational institutions prioritizing this work.
Bio
Adrienne Coleman, Ed.D., serves as the Director of Equity and Inclusion at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), a residential high school for students who are gifted/talented in mathematics and science. In this role, she is responsible for assessing potential barriers and developing strategies focused on recruiting/retaining a diverse community as well as implementing IMSA’s equity and excellence plan. She has been promoting diversity, equity and inclusion understanding in educational institutions, social-service organizations, law enforcement and government organizations for approximately 20 years. As a qualitative researcher, she has examined addressing the inequities that exist in the STEM education to career pipeline as well as the motivation of Black and Latino students to engage in this STEM pipeline. Her research has informed STEM programs throughout the nation including the NAACP, James R. Jordan Foundation and the American Statistical Association; and recently shared in the global space at the Athens Institute for Education and Research STEAM Symposium, the International Student Science Fair and the International Lactation Consultant Association Annual Conference. She hopes to contribute to the education and economic development of culturally, linguistically and economically diverse communities throughout the world by addressing inequities as well as continuing and sharing her diversity and inclusion focused research.
A Path Toward Advancing Educational Equity and Excellence, Pt. 1
Considering there is a national and global equity focused call to action, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) engaged in a process to institutionalize and operationalize Equity and Excellence to address educational inequities. This process included creating an educational case for engaging in Equity and Excellence, policy development, capacity building to engage in equity work, an inclusive and comprehensive data collection methodology, data meaning making, as well as an equity and excellence plan and scorecard development. Thus, this 2-session presentation will provide participants with an understanding of educational equity, share tools to assist educational institutions in drafting data-informed equity and excellence policy/plans, as well as provide a framework to score and measure progress in advancing equity. It will further share how to approach equity and excellence in an inclusive manner, as well as how to confront any resistance that may arise from educational institutions prioritizing this work.