June 2024

From 2017-2023, the Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) Network brought together educators, researchers, school support organizations, and philanthropic foundations, including the National Equity Project, to learn about, document, and share best practices for creating equitable learning environments grounded in the science of learning and development to ensure every student has the experiences and support needed to thrive.

From 2019-2023, the National Equity Project operated the BELE-NEP District Network, partnering directly with a national cohort of districts.

April 2024

Instruction Partners invited the National Equity Project to provide professional development focused on Liberatory Design with their program team, which focuses on designing solutions to the pressing problems instructional leaders face. Liberatory Design principles and practices spread throughout the organization, connecting organizational change with individual growth by grounding the work in shared humanity and equity.

As a program of the National Equity Project, the Black Teacher Project has served over 1700 individual Black teachers and educators in 35 different states since their first programs launched in 2016. This Impact Report details BTP’s recent work and impact (2020-2023) toward their mission to sustain and develop Black teachers to lead and reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning.

June 2023

To help public health care systems advance racial equity within their organizations, California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) launched a groundbreaking program – the Racial Equity Community of Practice (CoP) – in partnership with NEP in 2022. In the first phase of the CoP, 12 public health care systems built a foundation of knowledge and a shared language, strengthened organizational commitments to anti-racism, developed leadership capacity, and initiated tests of organizational change to embed equity in all aspects of care. Based on the success of this first phase, SNI launched phase two of the Racial Equity Community of Practice in November 2023.

April 2023

The National Equity Project has partnered with Battle Creek Public Schools since 2017. Our work with BCPS has focused on building momentum to implement designs for educational equity throughout the entire BCPS system. Three priority design areas have risen to the top: 1) design for the universal goal of academic learning and proficiency for all students, 2) design targeted strategies for students farthest away from educational success (African American students) and and 3) design for building an equitable learning environment in the classroom.

April 2023

Northwest Regional Education Service District partnered with the National Equity Project to support 19 equity learning teams. These teams represent several programs and sites within the agency and are composed of staff members who are committed to ongoing learning and to examining the systems in which they work to identify ways to create more equitable learning environments. This distributed leadership model drives NWRESD's efforts to create more equitable, inclusive learning environments for every student.

January 2023

In 2021, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, brought together 14 organizations from across different sectors in Kansas City, MO, along with its own staff members to participate in an 18-month Community of Practice focused on racial equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI). The Kauffman Foundation partnered with the National Equity Project to facilitate learning and practice centered in Liberatory Design.

April 2022

In early 2020, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Education team was developing a plan to better understand the systems and policies impacting early learners to devise right-fit solutions in the city of Oakland, CA. What emerged was a Community Strategy Council for Educational Equity and Excellence that helped guide the Foundation’s grantmaking during the pandemic and brought essential knowledge to their strategies. The Rainin Foundation partnered with the National Equity Project to support convening and facilitating this Community Strategy Council.