For Schools/Districts

EMID provides technical assistance to schools or school teams wanting to participate in an intense examination of teacher practice and program effectiveness. EMID helps schools analyze data, engage in meaningful professional inquiry, and implement multicultural education strategies and concepts.

In its technical assistance division, EMID uses a framework for problem solving and professional development that allows school teams to decide the content for their professional learning based on student-focused problems they identify. This framework requires data, much of which districts already collect at the classroom, grade, and school level. EMID staff assist school teams in using data in a systemic, coordinated, and integrated way. Teams engage in dialogue about how their school supports equity, look at how factors such as curriculum, school climate, and instruction affect student achievement, and use that information to make decisions about how to teach in the future.