We hope that you missed us, because we are back for a new school year and some big adventures. But this year isn’t about doing things like we always have. It is time to change it up. Read on to find out how we plan to do that.

When we look back on the years of the ongoing pandemic, we will all see ways that our lives were changed. Some of us lost family members or changed our careers, while some learned to focus on different things than they did before Covid. At Aequitas Educational Consulting, we have been changing too. Our biggest change? We want to provide more help to schools. As students and teachers pivoted to exist in a completely unknown educational ecosystem, we’ve seen so many strains on school culture and climate during the last year and a half. Educators did an amazing job, but the pandemic definitely took a toll on everyone from principals and instructors to students and families. So now, we want to help schools begin the process of healing. This isn’t to say that the pandemic is over (it isn’t) or that we are leaving the world of gender equity (we aren’t) but rather that we want to do more.

How will we do this? Perhaps that is the question you are asking yourself now. And we are so excited to tell you. We are widening our services to include measurement, assessment, and recommendations for improving school climate, culture, gender and racial equity, and leadership structure. Wow! That seems like a lot. Yes, it does. But don’t worry, we’re going to spend some time explaining exactly how we can do this, using measures that are established, tested, and reliable drivers of school improvement. Over the next few months, Lauren, Amy, and a surprise guest blogger will have lots to say. We hope you will smash that subscribe button so that you can enjoy these blogs as they come out every other week.

We’ve got big, important work to do in schools and we at AEC are so excited to continue that work with a brand new focus, a bigger to-do list, and a more comprehensive toolkit.