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El Camino College's Student Equity and Achievement Program (SEA) seeks to address disproportionate impact and student equity by providing faculty with frameworks for creating equity-minded learning environments. Participating faculty strive to create learning environments that have adopted equity-minded instructional design. Rather than focusing only on traditional student developmental theory and practices, SEA proposes to address equity gaps from an organizational learning theory framework that moves faculty to evaluate how their teaching methods, their views on student learning, their assignment design and their content delivery may be contributing to equity gaps. This framework promotes institutional conversations about designing and implementing equitable practices through disaggregated completion data and addressing the results through an equity-minded cognitive framework. The use of this approach redirects focus from student characteristics as the root of unequal educational..