Summer is the perfect time to plan for your district, school, or organization's equity work during the next school or fiscal year. And we hope you'll include EQUITYedu in your plans; we'd love to cheer along your work however we can.
What We've Been Up To
It's been a while since we posted here but our own equity work has continued in multiple ways since last we wrote. Here are some snapshots of what we've been up to:
In our roles as faculty, we've been providing leadership to our university's strategic planning around racial justice and facilitating multiple opportunities (in-person and online) for faculty and staff learning of equity and social justice pedagogies.
In our roles at EQUITYedu, we've worked with multiple organizations, schools, and districts; visit our Clients page to see our newly-updated list and read about the uniquely-curated approaches we've designed for each context.
In our roles as continuous equity-learners, we've been reading (some of our latest reads are Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade and How to Stop and Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy), writing about equity (did you see Melissa's co-edited book Mentoring While White: Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students?), and attending social justice conferences (like NAME's). Kevin has had opportunities to learn at a Native American reservation and in Hong Kong; Melissa has been learning about OER (open educational resources) and AI.
How We Can Support Your Equity Work
As you'll see on our Clients page, we work with each organization, district, school, or university uniquely. We listen carefully to you and your goals and design an approach that works in your context. Reach out via our website or our email address to provide us the opportunity to hear about your equity goals.
As you think about advancing equity, consider working with us to offer...
Book clubs or reading discusion groups for your staff. We'll curate the reading selections or case studies and facilitate the group conversations.
High-quality, interactive, invitational trainings to your staff. We prefer offer our workshops to your staff on an ongoing basis. All of us need multiple opportunities to learn equity and to figure out how our learning applies to our work.
Opportunities for educators to be coached within their classrooms. We love visiting classrooms, observing teachers and students, and having supportive, confidential conversations with educators about how they can improve their social justice practices.
Strategic planning facilitation and support. Whether working with your leadership, your DEI committee, or your entire staff, we enjoy partnering with organizations and schools to define equity goals and work to achieve them.
We're excited to continue to learn and work with communities like yours!
May your summer be full of learning and growth,
Kevin & Melissa
Image Descriptions: Both images on this page are decorative. The first image is of a colorful beach ball floating on top of pool water. The second image is of a Black woman sitting on a leather couch in front of bookshelves, reading a book.
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