Equity Is An Ongoing Journey That Challenges Us All

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Equity is an ongoing journey that challenges us all

When guest editor Tanji Reed Marshall and I began working on this year’s equity spotlight issues (which include the June 2021 issue on Action for Racial Equity), we didn’t know that conversations about educational equity would take center stage during school board meetings and in mass media. But we did know that standing up for every child’s right to learn and thrive has always taken commitment, courage, and leadership. That’s why we decided to dedicate this issue to the topic of leading for equity. Equity doesn’t live in a policy document or in a one-off training. It lives in the people who make it a priority every day. It is embodied in their attitudes and daily actions. As Principal Baruti Kafele says in his online

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Suzanne Bouffard

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Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.