I chose to read Using Data To Advance Racial Equity. What resonated with me includes the following:
- While working towards racial equity, data is a crucial tool for teachers, administrators, and principals to begin the reflection process of taking a look oneself and identify policies that contribute to systemic racism
- Too often, racial blindness and deficit-based thinking can corrupt data analysis.
- Having an equity approach to data analysis means maintaining an awareness of potential distortion and taking proactive steps to counteract it.
- We must adopt an equity mindset in the collection, interpretation, and use of education data.
- Collecting and then disaggregating for a variety of demographic factors can help uncover such inequities.
- Data interpretation can be improved by using two practices: avoiding deficit-based thinking and using qualitative data.