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Mission and Values

NEASC partners with schools to assess, support, and promote high quality education for all students through accreditation, professional assistance, and pursuit of best practices.

Equity Vision

NEASC promotes equity and inclusion to ensure that all learners belong, thrive, and succeed. 

NEASC believes that

  • A sense of belonging is foundational for effective learning.
  • Honoring the uniqueness of each individual builds inclusive communities that will prepare students for lives in a multicultural society.
  • Personal and social identifiers, such as gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, economic status, language, ability, and religion must not be barriers to educating students.
  • Uncovering and addressing implicit bias is an ongoing process in equity work.
  • Working towards equity permeates all aspects of the organization and is everyone's responsibility.
  • Achieving equity requires the inclusion of historically marginalized groups.
  • Advancing equity reduces the predictability of who succeeds and who fails by ensuring every learner has access to the resources they need at the right moment.
  • Achieving equity requires challenging and redesigning structures of power and privilege.

NEASC commits to

  • Embracing diverse identities, values, and perspectives
  • Creating time and space for difficult but essential conversations on diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Developing equitable and inclusive policies and procedures, practices, and opportunities
  • Supporting communities that aspire to learn and develop the skills necessary to promote inclusion, honor diversity, and advance equity

Our Definitions

Diversity
The existence of a range of human differences and aspects of identity, including but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, economic status, language, ability, and religion.

Equity
Ensuring that everyone has what they need to fully participate. Equity is achieved when disparities of historically under-represented groups are eliminated and therefore outcomes cannot be predicted by identity.

Inclusion
All members of the community/organization are actively and intentionally made visible, heard, considered, and valued, and recognize the unique experiences of historically marginalized groups.