Equity Through Mutual Accountability: Collective Capacity Building Helps Educators Address the Needs of All Students

Schools generally reflect and embody the inequities present in society. Given that our society remains deeply stratified by race and class, it is hardly surprising that most schools reflect these patterns. But what would happen if a school were designed to explicitly counter racial inequality and injustice? In such a school, is it possible for educators to enact strategies that interrupt and counter the various ways that racial inequality is reproduced? That is beginning to happen at one community school in a low-income urban area in northern California.