Title: Navigating EdEquityVA – Virginia’s Roadmap to Equity | Virginia is for Learners
Headings: Navigating EdEquityVA – Virginia’s Roadmap to Equity
Navigating EdEquityVA – Virginia’s Roadmap to Equity
Navigating EdEquityVA – Virginia’s Roadmap to Equity
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Navigating EdEquityVA – Virginia’s Roadmap to Equity
Virginia is for ALL Learners Equity Commitments
Establish Equity Goals
Focus on Teaching & Leading
Curriculum & Instruction
Resourcing Schools
#EdEquityVA Initiatives

Content: Closing Opportunity Gaps Among Marginalized Student Groups
Focus on Teaching & Leading
Virginia is working to advance the cultural competencies of its existing teachers and education leaders and prioritize increasing the diversity of its educator workforce. This includes ensuring that all students experience culturally responsive learning environments. To maximize the potential of all students, Virginia must ensure that all students have access to high quality teachers and school leadership. Curriculum & Instruction
Virginia is working to ensure that every student experiences high quality instruction based on rigorous curriculum that prepares them for the future. Additionally, Virginia will ensure open and equitable access to instructional resources for teachers and learning resources for students. Resourcing Schools
In partnership with the Board of Education, Virginia will apply an equity lens to how schools are resourced through the Virginia Standards of Quality (PPT). The Standards of Quality (SOQs) set the minimum expectations for Virginia schools including student to staff ratios and maximum class sizes and determines the funding provided to local schools from the state. To provide all students with the supports and resources they need to succeed, Virginia will continue to focus attention on increasing its ranks of student support staff, such as counselors, nurses, and school psychologists. #EdEquityVA Initiatives
Together with partners across the state and in the Governor’s office, our #EdEquityVA vision is both strategic and intentionally focused on establishing equity targets, measuring equity outcomes, providing tailored assistance to schools and school leaders, and implementing systemic policy and regulatory changes. The Virginia Department of Education’s Office of Equity and Community Engagement is charged with leading state efforts to advance education equity, eliminate achievement gaps and increase opportunity, and decrease disproportionality in student outcomes.