Inclusion

Authentically bringing traditionally excluded individuals and/or groups into processes, activities, and decision/policy making in a way that shares power.

Note:

This graphic does not adequately capture the problem of treating differences as a deficit (the issue being addressed is a fundamental part of the shorter person - rather than a systemic problem that needs to be addressed). A great discussion of this is here.

Diversity

Diversity includes all the ways in which people differ, and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. It is all-inclusive and recognizes everyone and every group as part of the diversity that should be valued. A broad definition includes not only race, ethnicity, and gender — the groups that most often come to mind when the term "diversity" is used — but also age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, ideological standpoints, marital status, language, and physical appearance. It also involves different ideas, perspectives, and values.

Equity

The condition that would be achieved if one's identity no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. This includes work to address root causes of inequities not just their manifestation. This also includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by identity or fail to eliminate them.

A Note About Reality

A note about real world contexts: In reality, other kinds of inequities additionally impact outcomes. Students do not arrive at schools with similar backgrounds, experiences, and identities, and the goal justice and inclusion additionally needs to take this into account.

Social Justice

Proactive efforts to remove inequalities: of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that produce inequitable power, access, opportunities, treatment, impacts and outcomes for all.