Foreword Acknowledgments About the Authors Prologue: Data in a Time of Pandemic PART I: WHY STREET DATA, WHY NOW? Chapter 1: Leading for Equity: Another World Is Possible Guiding Principle: Reimagine our ways of knowing and learning. Core Stance: Holism Chapter 2: No Shortcut: Avoiding Equity Traps and Tropes, by Dr. Jamila Dugan Guiding Principle: See the barriers; imagine what is possible. Core Stance: Awareness PART II: CHOOSE THE MARGINS Chapter 3: Flip the Dashboard: Street Data Drives Equity Guiding Principle: Center voices from the margins. Core Stance: Antiracism Chapter 4: Pound the Pavement: Digging Into the Levels of Data Guiding Principle: Seek root causes over quick fixes. Core Stance: Deep Listening PART III: DEEPEN THE LEARNING Chapter 5: Redefine "Success": Street Data and the Pedagogy of Voice Guiding Principle: Equity work is first and foremost pedagogical. Core Stance: Agency Chapter 6: Build Coherence: Focus, Holism, and Well-Being Guiding Principle: Less is more; focus is everything. Core Stance: Coherence Chapter 7: Make Learning Public: Valuing Teacher Voices, by Carrie Wilson Guiding Principle: Mobilize a pedagogy of voice for educators. Core Stance: Symmetry PART IV: TRANSFORM THE CULTURE Chapter 8: Embrace Vulnerability: Moving Through Street Data Cycles Guiding Principle: Break the cycle of shame. Core Stance: Vulnerability Chapter 9: Calling Folks In and Up to Equity: Street-Level Conversations Guiding Principle: Every moment is an equity moment. Core Stance: Warm Demander Epilogue: The Journey Toward Liberation Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index
Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up-with classrooms, schools and systems built around students' brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district's equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book * Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately * Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what's right in our students and communities instead of seeking what's wrong * Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.