These pages are not formulated with ANSWERS, but with QUESTIONS, because the answers in each community may be different. These questions are directed specifically to the issues related to students of color and to issues over which we have control – data, quality of educators, family/community engagement with schools, student supports, and transitions. However, they apply as well to other students in vulnerable situations – students in foster care, students who are recent immigrants to the United States, GBLTQ students, and students in danger of dropping out.

How can I eliminate gaps?
I am a:

• Building Administrator
• Classified Staff
• Classroom Teacher
• Community Member
• Community Organization
• District Administrator
• Family
• Family Engagement Coordinator
• General
• Policy Makers
• Post-secondary Educator
• School Board Director
• Students
• Teacher Education Program Staff
  

How can I use these documents?

1. To help me ask the right questions and lead myself and others to action.
2. To help educational leaders know when they have eliminated the systemic gaps in their districts.
3. To provide a format and the right questions for communities to lead town hall meetings focused on eliminating gaps.