Boys outperform girls in math and science. Kids from poorer households get lower test scores and grades. Minorities and immigrants tend to walk away from schools with less education, less promising futures. Eliminating equity gaps begins by denying the inevitably of those typical scenarios. The time has come for schools to stop turning outward when asking why certain kids aren't thriving, and instead look within .
All kids deserve to be held to high standards.
All kids deserve schools that fully support their efforts to reach those standards. The SALT process helps schools locate their equity gaps and start closing them. SALT recognizes that equity gaps can be closed only through a collaborative effort by schools and their webs of support, including families, districts, community agencies, school committees, local and state government. The first step in closing equity gaps is finding and documenting them. Your school improvement team needs to know the students at the school and the school as a whole before it can begin to study equity gaps.