The DEI Office serves as the bedrock for the School District’s commitment to anti-racism, providing the structure, strategic guidance, and organizational leadership needed to redesign a more equitable District.
Equity at SDP means to: Cultivate prosperity and liberation for students and staff, starting with historically marginalized populations, by removing barriers, increasing access and inclusion, building trusting relationships, and creating a shared culture of social responsibility and organizational accountability.
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The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office serves as the bedrock for the School District of Philadelphia’s commitment to anti-racism, providing the structure, strategic guidance, and organizational leadership needed to redesign a more equitable School District.
Steeped in a commitment toward collective action and participatory design, the DEI office ensures the implementation, evaluation and districtwide accountability measures for policies, processes, and practices within program offices and schools in support of the organizational change needed to actualize our core beliefs, equity definition, and commitments.
Cultivate prosperity and liberation for students and staff, starting with historically marginalized populations, by removing barriers, increasing access and inclusion, building trusting relationships, and creating a shared culture of social responsibility and organizational accountability.
Chief, Equity
Director, Culture and Community Engagement
Senior Project Manager
Equity Training Specialist
Equity Training Specialist
Equity Training Specialist
Estefana Ramos
Equity Training Specialist
Michelle Thornton
Equity Training Specialist
Equity Training Specialist
Equity Training Specialist
Equity Training Specialist
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Through a series of collaborative meetings with members of the SDP Equity Coalition and SDP leadership, we have created the SDP Equity Framework – a comprehensive tool that will be used to support clear system-wide race and equity actions with measurable results. While there continues to be a commitment to addressing all dimensions of equity, we know that a focus on race by all members of the SDP community will allow us to get to the deepest layers of the disparities we see in our system, allowing us to more appropriately direct resources and target areas of action for improvement.
We recognize that every person, school, and office in our organization has different needs when it comes to equity professional learning. We are all at different places in our journey toward equity. As such, we need to approach our individual and collective learning with differentiation and scaffolding at the center. In addition to universal learning that we believe is critical for building shared understanding and commitment to equity, we also outline a set of learning pathways:
As we take District-wide action toward becoming an antiracist organization steeped in equity, we commit to uplifting and acknowledging the achievements and contributions of the various cultures that make up the tapestry of our District.
Click here more information on who and how the School District of Philadelphia is celebrating through out the year.
The SDP Equity Coalition Policy Review Team is a dedicated team of individuals from throughout the district who are committed to seeing equity woven throughout our organization.
The Policy Review Team meets regularly to review existing program office policies, apply the SDP Equity Lens, and provide actionable feedback in the areas of advancing equity, stakeholder engagement, resources, and progress monitoring and evaluation.
If you are interested in joining the Equity Coalition Policy Review Team please contact mgolobish@philasd.org.
Click to read more about the past work of the Equity Coalition.
On Monday, January 17, 2022, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, the School District of Philadelphia’s Equity Coalition hosted its inaugural Virtual Social Justice Summit, “For Philly, By Philly: Leading, Teaching, and Organizing for Equity,” in 2023 they hosted “Always Forward: Moving Toward Hope and Healing”.
CLICK HERE to see recordings of 2022 Social Justice Summit presentations.
CLICK HERE to see recordings of 2023 Social Justice Summit presentations.
Stay tuned for our 2024 Call for Proposals!
equity@philasd.org
215-400-4560