EQ2 Initiative

EQ2 Initiative

Equipped for Equity

Equipped for Equity


What Is The EQ2 Initiative?

The EQ2 Initiative is a statewide movement building healthier, more prosperous communities through educational innovation designed to increase equity and student engagement. We are committed to transforming teaching, learning, and assessment through student-led, culturally and linguistically-responsive practices including graduate profiles, capstones, assessment literacy, and work-based learning.
Highland High School EQ2 student presenting
Highland High School EQ2 student presenting

What Is The EQ2 Initiative?

The EQ2 Initiative is a statewide movement building healthier, more prosperous communities through educational innovation designed to increase equity and student engagement. We are committed to transforming teaching, learning, and assessment through student-led, culturally and linguistically-responsive practices including graduate profiles, capstones, assessment literacy, and work-based learning.

EQ2 student working on blueprint for project

Our Impact


When students have agency in their learning, they light up. Giving students opportunities to explore their interests inside and outside the classroom ignites their ambitions. In New Mexico, our students are disengaging at alarming rates. However, if we connect learning to real-world work, student identity, and authentic assessment we can keep young people engaged and excited at school.

“I would rather set my own goals and expectations and

take initiative to develop my own project, rather than

have someone come in and give me these numbers and

prompts that have no connection to my identity or culture.”

- Lakin

- Lakin

“I would rather set my own goals and

expectations and take initiative to develop

my own project, rather than have someone

prompts that have no connection to my

identity or culture.”


Capstone documentary by Lakin award screenshotCapstone documentary by Lakin award screenshot

Discover Lakin’s story in the award-winning documentary short film Guiding Questions: How Capstones Are Transforming New Mexico Education.

Discover Lakin’s story in the award-winning documentary short film Guiding Questions: How Capstones Are Transforming New Mexico Education.

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