LASTREVISEDOCTOBER7, 2020

Creating Equitable
School Systems
A Roadmap for Education Leaders

As local education agencies (LEAs) plan for the 2020–21 school year and beyond, it is critical that
educators use the planning process to honestly reflect on successes and challenges of local
continuity of education plans in the 2019-20 school year and learn how to make instruction more
engaging and efective for all students.

Establish
a team. Support
Ensure a social and Communicate
comprehensive plan Explore emotional Focus on with Provide
that reflects the
considerations and
and select wellness. effective stakeholders. high-quality
needs of every instructional Ensure students and instruction. Ensure all staf, professional
delivery staf feel connected to students, families,
stakeholder in the local Ensure every and the community learning.
education community scenarios. a safe and welcoming
school community that
student has access are informed and Identify and support
Identify the to the resources ready to safely the training needs of
supports their and supports
instructional delivery well-being, engage in the staf, students, families,
scenario(s) that are necessary to education process and the community,
engagement, and successfully
HEALTH AND SAFETY best fit for your local prioritizing time for
PLAN TEMPLATE success in the engage with and
community, prioritizing educational process teacher collaborative
health and safety of master grade-level analysis and
students and staf and content instructional planning
strategic stafing to CONNECTIVITY
SCHOOL REOPENING support and engage all STAFF AND
INSTRUCTIONAL students STUDENT
PLANNING WELLNESS INSTRUCTION EFFECTIVE REMOTE
TEMPLATE GUIDE PROFESSIONAL
LEARNING
STRATEGIES*
PHYSICAL HEALTH
AND SAFETY PRACTICES ASSESSMENT

SCENARIO STRATEGIC
PLANNING STAFFING ATTENDANCE
GUIDE AND
ENGAGEMENT
* Tool is currently under construction.

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