This report commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Brown v Board decision by examining the state of integration in New York City Public Schools, outlining the impact of policy, leadership, and community organizing on classroom desegregation efforts.

EJ-ROC presents a Culturally Responsive Inventory for clinicians to enter the ongoing process of approaching a culturally responsive practice. To be a culturally responsive clinician is to constantly be aware of and reflect on your identity markers and how we you are working with clients through an equity lens.

EJ-ROC conducted an analysis of the authorship and main character portrayal for three widely used elementary English Language Arts curriculum – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw HIll, and Savvas Learning Company.

This interactive hub is meant to preserve and archive the tools, resources, and policies achieved in the fight for integrated schools over the past 8 years, but to also situate the work to integrate NYC schools, in the long battle for racial justice in New York City.

EJ-ROC conducted a culturally responsive evaluation of three widely used elementary school English Language Arts curriculum and found them to be demeaning and damaging to Black, indigenous and students of color.

EJROC supports parents, youth and communities that are organizing for an honest, accurate and full-funded education, in the face of attacks on critical race theory and education equity.

Since 2018, The NYC CRE Working Group group has worked to push the NYC Department of Education to adopt policies at the school, district, and central level that embody and enact culturally responsive-sustaining education.

The Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard was designed to help parents, teachers, students, and community members determine the extent to which their schools’ English Language Arts curricula are culturally responsive.

A multimedia site that provides critical research, communications materials, and organizing toolkits for educators, parents, students, community members, and district leaders to build the movement for culturally responsive education. Here you can find evidence of the proven effectiveness of culturally responsive education and ethnic studies in schools.

This tool provides key questions that Scorecard facilitators (and those accountable for moving classrooms and schools toward cultural responsiveness) should address as they prepare for their next steps. The questions are designed to encourage a critical reflection on the process of scoring, identifying systemic barriers, opportunities, and supports for CRE curriculum, considerations for getting to CRE curriculum, and planning next steps.

The Policy Hub is a collection of short, accessible research briefs on topics essential to education equity. Each 2-3 page brief includes research evidence, key takeaways, helpful research links, and best examples of policy and practice.

Transforming Our Public Schools: A Guidebook to Culturally Responsive Education is a colorful, accessible guide to what culturally responsive education looks like in the classroom, instruction, school climate, and family & community engagement.

For centuries, Black people have spearheaded education for liberation, saving themselves and radically transforming America, leading us all to a more just society. This three-part blog series seeks to share this vital history as a guide and inspiration for liberatory education.

I3 works with districts, schools, and communities in the United States and beyond to design and develop innovative and equitable solutions to educational segregation.