Our Equity Diagnostics support districts in understanding their current strengths, areas for improvement, and provide recommended next steps to strategically and effectively further equity and inclusion.
Mass Insight offers three equity diagnostics: the Equity Audit, the Equity Accelerator, and the Implementation to Impact (I2I) Equity Assessment.
Overview
Equity Audits
Process Description
- Our Equity Audit is a thorough process that includes a data and artifact analysis and numerous stakeholder engagement activities (surveys, focus groups, and interviews) in alignment with our District Equity Framework to clearly articulate the extent to which an equitable and inclusive work and learning environment is experienced by all stakeholders. We customize our approach to support the systems, structures, and capacity of the district during the Equity Audit process, as well as next steps in the district’s ongoing equity journey.
Diagnostic Overview
- The Equity Audit is a process conducted by our team that provides unbiased and external research- and evidence-informed findings and customized recommended next steps.
Completion Timeline
- 6–8 months
Equity Accelerators
Process Description
- Our Equity Accelerator process is an opportunity for districts to strategically reflect on what is working, where progress toward equity has been made, and where the district should strategically focus efforts to impact the system and stakeholder experience. Through the Equity Accelerator process, we engage in a series of facilitated work sessions and stakeholder experiences that will set the district up for dynamic, streamlined, and data-informed strategic next steps as they accelerate forward in their equity journey.
Diagnostic Overview
- The Equity Accelerator is a process facilitated by our team that leverages the voices of district stakeholders to critically assess and determine next steps to accelerate equity.
Completion Timeline
- 3–4 months
Implementation to Impact (I2I) Equity Assessment
Process Description
- Our Implementation to Impact (I2I) Equity Assessment is an adaptive tool aligned to our District Equity Framework that assesses district and school leaders’ perceptions about the current implementation progress and impact of equity-centered systems and practices. Following the completion of the I2I Equity Assessment, districts receive a report of findings, as well as a facilitated session with Mass Insight staff to start unpacking the results.
Diagnostic Overview
- The Implementation to Impact (I2I) Equity Assessment is a tool that provides a current status report of a district’s progress toward ensuring equitable and inclusive impact for students, staff, and families.
Completion Timeline
- +1 month
Comparison of Equity Diagnostic Activities
Comparison of Equity Diagnostic Deliverables
I am very appreciative of the work that Mi did during their equity audit… I did not hear rumblings around the school community that the audit was intrusive or uncomfortable which, considering the sensitive nature of the audit, seems like a huge positive to me. The results were presented very thoroughly, and I appreciate the actionable recommendations.
They were an excellent partner in this work in the sense that they’re very professional and always prepared, always followed through, very organized, and able to kind of keep the work moving.
When you work with organizations, you’re looking for somebody who is listening to you, who can be personable, who you don’t wonder if they heard you. And that’s exactly what this group does.
Six months after the equity audit, district leaders shared the following equity-related actions were underway:
“We started an equity task force.”
“We now have a director of DEI who does just solely that work.”
“We continue to use the audit as a tool to inform our overall plan.”
“We made changes to our leadership goals.”
“It’s important for us to stop looking at the district in an aggregate form and saying we’ll be fine because once you start looking at intersections, or once you start looking at individual student groups, you’ll realize that not everybody is necessarily going to be fine.”
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