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What is educational equity? How do we know it when we see it and feel it? What is inequity?

During my conversations about educational equity with educators and school leaders, these questions come up often.  Sometimes the questions are explicit, sometimes they are implicit in the larger discussions we are having. I have found that the word equity is thrown around often, but a shared, useful and actionable meaning is elusive and often abstract at best. In response to numerous equity conversations and initiatives that are lacking in definition and purpose, I’ve decided to define educational equity.  To give educational equity parameters… look like’s… and feel’s like’s.