HOW WE LEAD CHANGE
IS THE CHANGE
Support for school districts, state and regional education organizations, and school support organizations
PARTNERSHIP
We partner alongside leaders and teams over time, in ways that model the same equity-centered practices we're asking them to adopt.
Through professional development, coaching, and hands-on partnerships grounded in equity, the National Equity Project partners with educators, leaders, communities, and systems to build the trust, capacity, and shared conditions that move equity-centered change from aspiration to practice and turn difference into collective power — so every young person can learn, belong, and flourish.
HOW WE WORK
PEOPLE FIRST APPROACH
Everything we do is built around understanding your needs and helping you succeed—because when you thrive, so do we.
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS
We’re not just here for the now. We love creating lasting relationships with our clients and growing with them over time.
PROVEN PROCESS, FLEXIBLE EXECUTION
We bring structure where it counts and adaptability where it matters. Our methods are clear, but always responsive.
OUR SERVICES
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SCHOOL & DISTRICT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COACHING
Our core offering, built around your team. Custom-designed learning sessions, coaching, and facilitation built around the topics your system needs most. This work scales from a single coaching relationship to a sustained, multi-year partnership, and often unfolds in phases: listening, design, learning sessions, coaching, and reflection.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Leading for Equity · Coaching & Managing for Equity · Facilitating Meetings for Equity · Change Management · Liberatory Design · Student Experience Design · System Design & RedesignLEARN MORE …
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OPEN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Standardized, scheduled learning that any individual can join: self-paced CEL Online courses, open-registration institutes, workshops, and webinars — built on the same core equity topics as our custom work.
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CUSTOM PARTNERSHIPS / STRATEGIC ADVISING
For partners building the future of learning — funders, ed-tech companies, and innovation coalitions — we offer equity-centered design consulting, advising, and ongoing partnerships that connect what's really happening for young people to the people making decisions about their education.
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COHORTS & NETWORKS
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NEP ALUMNI NETWORK
A new membership community for leaders and organizations that have built a foundation with NEP through an institute, coaching engagement, facilitated learning experience, or other partnership and want to stay connected to the practices, coaching, and relationships that sustain equity leadership over time. Founding members receive monthly Equity Leadership & Practice sessions, quarterly coaching with an NEP coach, a curated NEP resource library, and enrollment in the NEP Online course.
Individual Membership
$2,500/yearSchool/Site Membership
$5,000/year (up to 3 members)JOIN THE NEP ALUMNI NETWORK
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DISTRICT REDESIGN NETWORK
A two-year district leadership cohort (Fall 2026–Spring 2028) that builds collective capacity to transform student experience. Cross-functional district teams ground redesign in student and community experience and design and test changes to the systems that shape daily student life through structured convenings, coaching, and peer learning.
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COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Facilitated learning communities that bring together staff from across programs, departments, or institutions committed to sustained equity learning and action. Members build shared language and analysis, apply an equity and systems-thinking lens to real challenges, and interrupt existing institutional dynamics together.
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EQUITY FELLOWS COHORT
A cohort-based fellowship for individual leaders across organizations to build their equity leadership practice together over an extended period. Fellows receive structured peer learning, coaching, and network-building alongside leaders facing similar equity challenges in different contexts.
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CONTACT US
To learn more about partnering with the National Equity Project, please contact info@nationalequityproject.org.
We are prioritizing partnerships with school districts, state and regional education organizations, and school support organizations in California and the Midwest but welcome conversations with others who may benefit from our support.