"Equity is a process through which we ensure that policies, practices, institutional cultures, and ideologies are actively equitable, purposefully attending to the interests of the students and families to whose interests we have attended inequitably."

“I arrive 15 minutes early for class, and they are already there. All of them. This is . . . rare. And they are in a circle, the desks pushed closely together. This is not so rare, because this is how we always sit. But what is different this time is that I didn’t have to tell them to put their desks that way. For the past 12 weeks, every time I asked them to put their desks in a circle for our discussion, it was almost as if I was saying it for the first time. But today they are all there, and they are in a circle. And then they are looking at me, and it is silent and at least four are crying. And then someone says, so quietly that I almost don’t hear him, “Are we going to talk about it?” Yes (pg. 5).”