Providing equity leadership and capacity building to transform education and workforce systems.
NAPE is the nation's leading professional alliance for access, equity, and diversity in education, training, and careers. Membership types include state agencies, affiliate organizations, and individual professionals.
Our research-based, strategy-driven professional development services equip educators with tools to address equitable learning environments, career readiness, and student success.
NAPE’s Public Policy team continuously tracks legislation that addresses access, equity, and diversity in classrooms and the workplace. We follow a diverse array of legislation, ranging from education to immigration to welfare policy.
Systemic educational improvement is happening in Central Texas. In 2018, the E3 Alliance invited NAPE to be their equity partner in the Pathways of Promise research-based initiative, a collaboration with Central Texas School Districts made possible by the Greater Texas Foundation. This case study highlights the impact in Round Rock ISD where the Stony Point Learning Community focused on increasing enrollment in Middle School Advanced Mathematics. Over a three-year period, the percentage of students enrolling in advanced math in sixth grade increased from 33% to 75%.
“Partnering with E3 Alliance and the Central Texas School Districts has demonstrated the power of collaborative equity efforts. Moving beyond increased awareness to implement equity actions is a mission realized. Educators and students benefitted from the system changes. Teachers invited students into the learning with a candid belief that every student can be successful along the advanced math pathway.” – Audrey Selden, JD, NAPE Lead for E3 Alliance
“I am so impressed with NAPE’s incredible work with the Stony Point Learning Community to remove barriers to student participation in advanced math classes in middle school. I have observed growth in student self-efficacy and academics and the number of students enrolled and successful in Algebra I by 8th grade. Round Rock ISD will continue to partner with NAPE to grow these concepts with educators at other schools in the district. We are excited to see how far our students go.” – Dr. Brenda Agnew, Director of Equity and Planning, Round Rock ISD
Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) pathways offer access to high-skill, high-wage, in-demand careers, yet disparities persist by gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic, and disability status. There are many root causes for the disparities, and it can be challenging to know where to start to influence change. We can help!
Equity in CTE and STEM Root Causes and Strategies: A Call to Action is our latest publication.
It includes a literature summary and an infographic framework of an ecosystem for equity in CTE and STEM. We use an intersectional lens to examine how individual learners are affected by the dynamics within education, careers, and community, offering a wealth of insights into specific and overlapping root causes. The snapshot of current theories and evidence-based strategies identifies and addresses the structures, practices, and biases that must shift to promote equity and sustainable change.
We hope this Call to Action helps you evaluate your assumptions, biases, practices, and equity strategies. Read more >>
Policy Opportunities to Promote Students with Disabilities in Career and Technical Education is a new NAPE resource developed in partnership with YES! Youth Employment Solutions Center and TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy. The publication is a great resource for special education and career and technical education (CTE) advocates to understand and take action on the provisions in Perkins V that support increasing the participation of students with disabilities in CTE.
In 2017, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation (NAPE) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to implement the Intermountain STEM network (IM STEM). IM STEM included stakeholders from government, business, education, and communities across six states (Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming) who represented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, career and technical education (CTE), and workforce development. IM STEM used a collective impact model to create systems changes in state-level agencies and organizations to provide diverse students access and opportunities for STEM and CTE success.
NAPE has completed a literature review, compiled effective practices and identified organizations with particular expertise to support development of your Perkins Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment and Local Application, and to assist state agencies in providing effective technical assistance to better serve each of nine student groups.
NAPE developed the Equity Leadership Academy for States to help member education agencies guide postsecondary systems in their states to make Perkins V more effective and sustainable.
NAPE is providing effective, free strategies, tools, and collateral to help educators encourage more diverse females to take part in STEM education and increase diversity in the advanced manufacturing workforce.
Looking for information and help with planning and implementing Perkins V? Visit our Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act page for upcoming activities and resources related to Perkins V.
NAPE’s CISTEME365 will be featured in the 2022 STEM for All Video Showcase funded by the National Science Foundation. The event will be held online May 10th – 17th at https://stemforall2022.videohall.comhttps://player.vimeo.com/video/681032757 Download Flyer Now in its eighth year, the annual showcase
the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will launch a new grant program to provide additional funding to school districts that have funds withheld by their state or are otherwise financially penalized for implementing strategies to prevent the spread
Friday March 12th The NAPE Affiliate Membership Affinity Group held an engaging interactive conversation with Markus Flynn, Executive Director, Black Men Teach. Markus is currently a science teacher at Prodeo Academy in Minneapolis. He held prior positions in research and
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The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity and the NAPE Education Foundation stand united in condemning racism and white supremacy. We grieve for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and their families, and the many Black people who have been killed through acts of civil and police violence. We hear and stand with their communities. Black lives matter.
As NAPE members and partners work to heal and to prepare for the future of education and work, we call upon everyone to join us in supporting the fulfillment of civil rights laws and protections that uphold racial justice and equity. Each of us individually and in our institutions must address systemic racism and anti-Blackness.
NAPE and the NAPE Education Foundation are committed to work diligently together and with our partners to continue to learn and to grow our capacity to work for racial justice.
Ben Williams, PhD, CEO
Adrian San Miguel, NAPE President
Judith D’Amico, NAPE Education Foundation President
