PROVIDING LIBERATING EDUCATION FOR ALL STUDENTS

In our current educational landscape of disproportionate academic and behavioral outcomes, schools, researchers, and policymakers are working to support learning for all students. Efforts to create systems of support that consider the role race and culture play in equitable practices for students have become a key part of continuous school improvement  as educators realize that:

• Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and positive behavior interventions and support (PBIS) increase positive academic and behavioral outcomes for all students but have not closed learning and discipline gaps for culturally and linguistically diverse students.  
• Race and culture play a major role in educational outcomes.
• Research links achievement and discipline disparities to opportunity gaps and racial bias.
• The need to center equity in systems, policies, and practices.

To support educators at all levels build and promote culturally sustaining educational systems of support that center equity for all students, especially those who have been systemically and historically marginalized.

RPS Educational Impact provides professional development and implementation support to school districts and other educational entities to increase cultural understandings of the realities culturally and linguistically diverse students face daily. The goal is to support schools and other educational entities in:

• Effective continuous school improvement through multi-tiered systems of support.
• Creating culturally sustaining systems of support
• Closing the opportunity gap by building the partner's capacity to embed equity across all educational systems, policies, and practices.
• Decreasing disproportionate exclusionary practices for students who have been systemically and historically marginalized.