Social and Emotional Type Inventory (SETI)
Category: Student Well-Being
Shifting racial politics place substantial pressures on organizations to navigate whether and how to sustain DEI commitments. In this study, I examine how partnerships between public school districts and private school improvement organizations (SIOs) responded to shifting environmental pressures around racial equity in their espoused goals and practice over time. I found that organizations engaged in strategic discursive responses—inflating, amplifying, and tempering their racial equity language—that produced distinct partnership dynamics. SIOs converged on socially palatable language—what I term a race-evasive justice frame. This work offers a novel framework for understanding how educational organizations in partnership navigate shifting environmental pressures, and details how stark political shifts can have a homogenizing effect on SIOs.
Keywords
framing; instructional reform; organizations; organizational theory; racial equity; politics; racial politics
Education level
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/s7m2-4106
