Articles
Evidence-informed thought leadership, research, and articles from the National Equity Project on leadership, youth-centered education, system conditions, and related topics.
Connection and Co-Regulation Precede Self-Management: A Common Sense Approach to Learning, Development and Discipline
Educator well-being and understanding of neuroscience are fundamental in creating environments where students feel safe and supported to learn.
How We Lead the Change Is the Change: Horizon 3 Leadership
The journey towards equitable, innovative H3 learning ecosystems demands new forms of leadership that embrace uncertainty, nurture belonging, and co-design solutions with communities.
Leadership for Learner-Centered Education
It will require new forms of leadership to transform our outdated education system toward a modern, learner-centered ecosystem approach, and we need to develop the capacity to lead these changes in every community.
Using Student Experience Data to Co-Design Learning Environments
Research brief on five key actions necessary for supporting effective implementation of student-centered data systems to improve learning conditions and experiences at the classroom and school level.
The Transformative Power of Youth Organizing Coaches
Research brief on the value of near-peer mentors and youth organizing coaches in supporting school districts to listen to, understand, and respond to the voices and experiences of students.
Wade in the Water: Leadership Imperatives for Turbulent Times
Principled leadership behaviors for leading, organizing and navigating the complexity, uncertainty, and injustice in this time.
Ecosystems of Care: Mental Health & Wellbeing in Schools
Protecting young people from adversity, promoting socio-emotional learning and psychological well-being, and ensuring access to mental health care are critical for their health and well-being during adolescence, and shape long-term outcomes into adulthood.
Partner with BIPOC Youth to Make School Better for Everyone
When adults receive feedback from young people and think it is up to them to solve or fix the problem, they miss a key opportunity to partner with students to co-design approaches that meet their academic and social emotional needs.
Targeted Universalism: Our Path Forward
Targeted Universalism is an approach to advancing equity and justice that acknowledges our common goals and shared fate as human beings, while also addressing the stark contrasts in access to opportunity between different groups of people.
What if We… Don’t Return to School as Usual
The biggest changes in our society have only come about when there was a strong enough disturbance — an interruption to “business as usual” — and when people were willing to come together even though the path forward was cloudy.
Don’t Talk About Implicit Bias Without Talking About Structural Racism
It is critical that any learning about implicit bias includes both clear information about the neuroscience of bias and the context of structural racism that gave rise to and perpetuates inequities and harmful racial biases.
5 Steps for Liberating Public Education From Its Deep Racial Bias
The article outlines that in order for social-emotional learning to advance educational equity, education leaders must be prepared to talk about race.