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  • This bibliography shares resources that promote equity practices. Some of the following concepts are covered: prioritizing equity by setting equity targets and goals, creating accountability measures for equity, and implementing and measuring equity programs.
  • As leaders, one of the best ways to intervene and bring about change is to deepen our learning about ourselves—to improve our understanding of our own actions, behaviors, decision-making processes, conversations, questions, and choices. To help us with this type of learning, we can turn to the latest in neuroscience, which has discovered new insights into the key drivers of adult learning and behavior. “Leadership,” chapter 1 of Systems Building Resource Guide, shares cutting edge, brain-based models for improving our individual and systems leadership practices as well as approaches for leading change.
  • Strategic planning is an essential part of early childhood systems building, providing a state and its partners with a coherent vision and roadmap. Chapter 2 of Systems Building Resource Guide provides an overview of key concepts linking strategic planning and systems building, describing what strategic planning is and its importance to systems building. This chapter presents key elements, quick tips for strategic planning, and dangers to avoid in the planning process. It also provides an organizational design approach that helps accelerate the work getting done, examples of statewide and city-specific strategic plans, and resources.
  • This toolkit includes information for administrators and their communities as they create strategies and measures to promote equity. The resource shares information about how to address the effects of a crisis within an organization. It also outlines interventions for and maintenance of an accepting culture.
  • This exercise helps leaders consider how their life experiences affect their thoughts on race, class, culture, and sexual orientation, which can inform how they approach disparities. Through this self-awareness exercise, leaders learn to share their experiences and listen to others’ experiences, helping them better understand the basic ideas that guide their actions.
  • This assessment tool is designed to support the National Farm to School Network’s racial and social equity goal by expanding our knowledge of structural, institutional, and relational racism. This tool is intended to be used by participants to accomplish the following:
  • Improve the ability to find racial and social inequities within an organization; local, state, and national programs; and policy initiatives.
  • Support decision-making processes that use opportunities for improving racial and social equity.
  • Build a community of practice to allow us to take initiative within our area.
  • Boost our collective power to discuss the aspects needed for change.
  • This toolkit can help your organization apply equity. Racial equity tools are intended to mix specific considerations of racial equity in decisions, such as policies, practices, programs, and budgets. This racial equity tool can help you develop plans and actions that decrease racial inequalities and increase success for every group.
  • This guide from the NeuroLeadership Institute uses science to create approaches for enhancing leadership practices. The guide shares a framework for making permanent behavior-change, such as setting priorities for cultural change, recognizing new practices for applying change, and removing problems in accepting new practices in the work process.
  • This guide offers information on racial equity training programs for organizations. It reviews and compares ten racial equity programs. It outlines how programs recognize the foundations and dynamics of racial and ethnic oppression and the ideas and approaches they use to discuss problems. This guide is designed to help community leaders, organizations, policy makers, funders, and other participants choose and promote methods that align with their goals and needs.