Portland, Oregon
Portland Oregon School District
This page will contain information and documents from the Portland Oregon School District for posterity.
Important Documents and Website Archives
This is a list of important documents and websites from the Portland Oregon School District’s equity initiatives. All websites will have a live link but have also been archived on December 16 2022 just in case they are removed. If you find a document from Portland Oregon School District that is not listed, please send to activelyunwoke (a) gmail.com
Annual District Equity Reports & Strategic Plan
Portland Public Schools has been integrating equity into school policy officially since around 2011.
Other Documents & websites
- Racial Educational Equity Policy
- Racial Equity and Social Justice Lens, updated April 2021
- Professional Development website (equity office specific)
- Professional Development framework
- Professional Development series 2021-2022
- Racial Equity and Social Justice Partnership Investment Strategy (2020)
- Strategies and partnerships
- Protocols to respond to hate speech (2019)
- Renaming schools named after racist presidents
District Racial Equity Videos
Videos posted by the school district regarding their equity work. All videos are backed up on a separate YouTube channel, just in case they disappear one day.
PPS RESJ Overview training
This is linked directly on their website but is not on their YouTube channel, so I backed it up for them.
PPS RESJ Lens and Protocols training
This is linked directly on their website but is not on their YouTube channel, so I backed it up for them.
Racial Equity & Social Justice Presentation To PPS Board
Dani Ledezma, Senior Advisor for Social Equity & Social Justice, gave a presentation to the Portland Public Schools Board of Education on Oct. 29, 2019. (Backup link)
No Place for Hate Peer Facilitators – Community Conversation About Race
From February 4, 2021. (Backup link)
Community Partners used by the Portland Oregon School District
Community Partners are outside organizations and non-profits whose resources are utilized by a school district in some way. Very commonly, these are advocacy organizations.
- Pacific Educational Group (Courageous Conversations and Beyond Diversity) – More about them from Parents Defending Education
- Center for Equity and Inclusion (CEI)
- Anti-Defamation League (No Place For Hate)