If your team is looking at race and identity connected to your problem of practice, consider utilizing National Equity Projects liberatory design mindsets. We will review ways to use these stances and values to ground your equity work into action. We will also provide models and review the Social Justice Standards as a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction. Comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes, the standards provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable.

Join us for an insightful session that delves into the profound impact of authentic family partnerships, emphasizing linguistic and cultural appropriateness. In today's diverse and interconnected world, understanding and respecting the unique linguistic and cultural backgrounds of families is crucial.

Welcome to our content session on equity protocols! In this session, participants will delve into the transformative role that equity-driven leadership plays in shaping education for the better. Our focus is on improving access, opportunity, and inclusion for both students and adults, with a special emphasis on those who have been systemically marginalized and historically underserved.

This session focuses on getting educational information that is evidence-based without having to do a full-on thesis project. We’ll look at where research scans fit into continuous improvement, how to conduct them easily and where to find the information you need, how to read research reports, and ways to keep track of what you are finding out. This is interactive -- you’ll be doing research scans in this session. 

A driver diagram is a tool that helps translate the work from the fishbone diagram—which defined the problem, main factors, and related causes—into a clearly articulated improvement goal, or aim. The driver diagram identifies a logical set of smaller, tangible goals and supports the selection of specific actions, or change practices, to be tested as part of the continuous improvement process. The driver diagram provides a graphic representation of the various actions and change practices the Improvement Team could test through the continuous improvement effort. It has up to four elements: an aim statement, primary drivers, secondary drivers, and change practices.

Participants will learn how to to recognize and support their teams in having dialogue around improvement efforts that are candorous and curious. We will review barriers to team members being able to productively engage in the hard conversations needed to positively impact student learning. 

Emotional Intelligence is one of the most critical skills an educator can possess as it forms the foundation of all stakeholder relationships. Understanding the five principles of EI and how they impact your educational practice can help you move mountains in your transformational change journey and engage others in the mission as well. Increasing your ability to process and regulate your emotions in challenging situations can better equip you to successfully navigate your interactions with all stakeholders as you work together to improve educational outcomes for all students.

Facilitating groups and conversations can be quite challenging. Participants will be provided with as many facilitation stratgies as I can fit in. It is vital that facilitators have as many strategies in their quiver as possible, this workshop will focus primarily on micro-skills that will enable leaders to diagnose, design and implement effective strategies during meetings, collaborations and conversations that can transform working environments and whole organizations. Come prepared to learn and grow!

High turnover and unstable leadership disrupt efforts at transformation and can cause setbacks that a system may take years/decades to recover from. Join us to learn about how the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports framework can help teams through leadership turnover, examined through the lens of Emma Wilson Elementary's experience over the last five years. PBIS can be about so much more than tickets and prizes.