Culture, Race, and Equity
Our Offerings
See below for the many ways to partner with the Culture, Race, and Equity (CRE) team.
- CRE Online Modules: A professional learning experience created for groups, specifically to introduce leaders, teachers, and community stakeholders to core ideas in Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE).
- CRE Coaching: A relationship-based, hands-on process that supports adult learning and growth, with the ultimate goal of advancing equity for children and families of all backgrounds in educational settings.
- CRE Consulting: Customized programming, advising, and thought partnership designed to advance racial justice and equity across practice, policy, and systems.
- CRE Snapshot: A tool to help you identify systemic inequities in your community and co-create a strategic plan that addresses these inequities.
- CRE Professional Learning: Customized workshop sessions that provide a shared understanding, language around race and equity, and supports the application of anti-racist.
Why Centering Culture, Race, and Equity Matters
To truly transform student outcomes and challenge long-standing inequities, we must intentionally center culture, race, and equity in our educational practices. Systemic disparities continue to impact historically marginalized groups, and addressing them requires more than awareness—it requires action.
Research shows that Culturally Responsive Education leads to meaningful change:
- Improved academic achievement across subjects like math, science, social studies, English language arts, and English as a second language (Saucedo & Jimenez, 2021).
- Greater student engagement, motivation, and confidence—especially in academic discourse and standardized testing (Aronson & Laughter, 2016).
- More equitable classrooms, where educators trained in bias, power, and privilege demonstrate reduced bias, increased empathy, and more culturally responsive behaviors (Devine, Forscher, Austin & Cox, 2012).
Culturally Responsive Education isn’t a trend—it’s a research-backed approach to creating inclusive, high-impact learning environments for all students.