Featured Programs
Equity Capacity Building Series
Equity Proficiency Training©
This is an interactive workshop that builds personal awareness and cultural competency by reviewing how the culture of schools and society impact performance. Participants gain awareness into their personal level of equity and cultural development as well as how organizational issues impact equity.
Managing Culture with an Equity Lens©
This workshop focused on the cultural drivers of performance, both individual and school level. Organizational assessment focuses on assessing schools and the degree to which they support student feelings of belonging, systemic obstacles to inclusion and academic performance.
Strategic Planning with an Equity Lens ©
Designed for teams and system leaders as well as building and district equity champions, this workshop prepares participants to develop strategic plans for managing equity.
Equity in the Classroom
The Equity in the Classroom Workshop Series is a three-part series designed to help teachers analyze their classroom practices and make plans to improve by revising current practice and creating targeted action plans for strategic implementation. Focusing on ten elements of an equitable classroom, participants will develop strategies to move along the equity continuum with an equity mindset. Equitable action plans that follow their analysis ==> lead to ==> lesson plans they can immediately implement in the classroom.
Equity in The Classroom Part 1- Analysis
This workshop is designed to engage teachers in a process of categorization, analysis, and action planning processes to improve their classroom practices. It provides the tools teachers need to revise current practice, engage in an issue-by-issue analysis and targeted action planning, and provide support for strategic implementation of action steps-- all focusing on improving student experience and performance.
Equity in The Classroom Part 2 - Strategies
This workshop teaches how the ten elements of an equitable classroom work in unison to improve equitable outcomes for all students. Participants will learn about each element, as well as develop strategies for moving themselves and their teaching along the equity continuum. Participants will also understand the context and importance of building an equity mindset.
Equity in the Classroom Part 3 - Implementation
This workshop offers a review of the 2 previous while working with teachers to enhance the strategies they developed for their classroom equitable action plans and support further lesson planning efforts. It is also meant for teachers to learn strategies to spot their own biases.
Confidence Building Workshop Series
Building Student Confidence© - For Teachers
This workshop is designed to provide teachers with an outline of the key elements of confidence and the cycles of development that students go through as they learn to manage their own confidence and become highly effective learners. Stories of students moving from withdrawn and intimidated by learning to being highly engaged and successful learners will offer lively examples that bring the theory and strategies to life. (Sponsored by Community of Teachers)
Building Student Confidence© - For Parents
This workshop is designed to describe for parents the key elements of confidence and the process their children need to experience to become highly effective learners. Stories of parents struggling to find the right resources for struggling students will show how they became highly engaged and successful learners using the strategies taught in this workshop. (Sponsored by Community of Teachers)
All Workshops
Equity Proficiency Training ©
Designed to adjust its curriculum to suit all audiences, this workshop builds cultural competency by exposing participants to a variety of cultural issues that affect learning and create the culture of schools and society that impact performance. Participants gain awareness into their personal level of equity development and how organizational issues impact equity.
This is a one day training.
This training is for all stakeholders.
Managing Culture with an Equity Lens ©
Designed for principals, teachers, team leaders and system leaders, this workshop focused on the cultural drivers of performance, both individual and school level. Participants gain tools for analyzing culture and planning responses to the ways schools undermine student performance. Organizational assessment focuses on assessing schools and the degree to which they support student feelings of belonging, systemic obstacles to inclusion and academic performance.
This is a two-day training. More days in a series is advisable when possible.
This training is for leaders at all levels and teachers who want to understand the psychology of performance.
Strategic Planning with an Equity Lens ©
Designed for team and system leaders as well as building and district equity champions, this workshop prepares participants to develop strategic plans for managing equity. Organizational assessment focuses on transformation of schools to becoming high performing cultures that center on equity.
This is a 2-3 day training. It can be spread over a semester with six shorter meetings as well.
Leaders at all levels
Equity Certification © (includes Equity Proficiency Training, Managing Culture with an Equity Lens, and Strategic Planning with an Equity Lens)
This certification covers awareness and readiness to lead on issues of equity and culture. The three workshops provide perspective on self-awareness, organizational fluency with culture and equity as well as skills for strategic management of equity issues.
This is a minimum of 5 days of training.
This is a way to package the three workshops without ‘training certification’. Not all participants will want/need to be trainers.
Equity Training Certification ©
This level of certification prepares participants to be trainers of equity workshops. The three workshops are combined with train-the-trainer sessions and supervised trainings. There is a per person fee for additional materials for each participant in future district trainings.
This training encompasses 6-8 days of initial training, training support while trainers practice for certification (3-4 days), and coaching as needed (3-4 days in year two).
Your outline of the certification process in the document last year (that I just re-sent) is a good description and outline of this process.
Equity in the Classroom ©
This workshop is designed to support teachers in bringing the lessons of equity into their classroom. Teachers learn how to meet the learning needs of struggling learners, students with specialized learning needs and students who would benefit from culturally relevant instruction. This session incorporates recent learning on culturally responsive pedagogy, critical race theory, and mindset management.
This is a 2 or 3-day workshop.
This is designed for classroom application. It is a precursor to the longer workshop that includes lesson planning.
Teachers are given a primer on equity and how to think about their classrooms and student performance.
Lesson Planning for the Equitable Classroom
This workshop is an intensive 30-hour course where teachers build lesson plans that meet the varied needs of students in the classroom using the latest pedagogy, demonstrated by the workshop leaders. Participants experience a differentiated classroom and create lesson plans to meet a variety of learning profiles. Participants to set up classrooms that enable students with a variety of learning needs to be successful. We embed the essentials from the Equity in the Classroom workshop here as needed.
5 day workshop
This training is for classroom teachers.
Building Confidence in the Classroom
This workshop is designed to provide teachers with an outline of the key elements of confidence and the cycles of development that students go through as they learn to manage their own confidence and become highly effective learners. Stories of students moving from withdraw and intimidated by learning to being highly engaged and successful learners will offer lively examples that bring the theory and strategies to life. (Community of Teachers)
This training can be done in one or two days.
This training is for classroom teachers.
Building Confidence: Strategies for Parents
This workshop is designed to describe for parents the key elements of confidence and the process their children need to experience to become highly effective learners. Stories of parents struggling to find the right resources for struggling students will show how they became highly engaged and successful learners using the strategies taught in this workshop. (Community of Teachers)
This training can be done in one day.
This training is for parents but can be retrofitted for all audiences.