Our Services
Support for school districts, state and regional education organizations, and school support organizations
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
How we lead change is the change.
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.
OUR SERVICES
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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.
Topics of expertise: Leading for Equity · Coaching & Managing for Equity · Facilitating Meetings for Equity · Change Management · Liberatory Design · Student Experience Design · System Design & Redesign
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Structure-led, multi-year programs where the design of the experience is itself the product: the District Redesign Network, the Equity Fellows Cohort, and Communities of Practice that build shared language and purpose across a system or region.
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.
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.
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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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.
→ Open-Registration Learning · Calendar of Events · CEL Online
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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.
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.