PHASE FOUR
Sustaining and Scaling
the Work
This is a continuous improvement process, and this final phase supports the continued dismantling of racial inequality in individual practices as well as in institutional structures and policies. These tools help make racial equity a habit of mind for practitioners and leaders and prevent this work from being sidelined.
In this phase, you will:
Explore questions that can keep fueling the cycle of race-conscious inquiry, reflection, and change
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Tool Overview
A CHECKLIST FOR SUSTAINING INSTITUTION-WIDE RACIAL EQUITY
Use pointed questions to help evaluate programs, practices, or changes in regard to racial equity, language, data, and inquiry.
EMBEDDING EQUITY-MINDEDNESS
Review five key components of equity as seen in policies, practices, and as a mindset, and utilize guiding questions and a worksheet to investigate whether racial equity has been embedded in selected language or approach.
WHAT SUPPORT DO FACULTY NEED FROM LEADERSHIP TO SUSTAIN EQUITY-MINDED WORK?
Use this list to discuss the support necessary for faculty to continue to move this anti-racist work forward.
“What I've learned through this work is that I am capable of taking a stand … If I don't interject this idea of race and ethnicity into these … conversations … it's not going to come up.
[And] if it doesn't come up, then these structural inequities that occur are not going to be addressed, and it will continue.”
Reflections on engaging with CUE
from a white male instructor in Colorado
with 10+ years’ experience teaching math
CASE STUDY
Building Equity-Mindedness
in Math Faculty
See how the tools supported racial equity-oriented change at Colorado community colleges.