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Equity in Education: Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education
This manual is intended to provide school districts with detailed data-driven processes for identifying the root causes of disproportionality in their district and ensure equitable outcomes. A major premise involves understanding disproportionality as an outcome of policies, practices, and beliefs. At the end of this data-driven process, school districts will be able to identify policies, practices, and beliefs implicated in their disproportionality patterns and, more importantly, develop systemwide buy-in and perspective of this equity issue.

Data Analysis Workbook This workbook provides step-by-step procedures for school districts to develop their own capacity to measure disproportionality using basic qualitative methods.

Mississippi Cultural Responsivity Matrix A Teachers’ Self-study Guide for Culturally Responsive Practices in Grades K-6: Reading & Mathematics. It assist teachers and administrators in assessing the degree to which mandated curricula guides in mathematics and reading curricula and strategies that are responsive to the socio-cultural experiences and backgrouds of their students.