LIVE STREAM Event: From Equity Awareness to Equity Action (3): Ridding Schools of Racism - From Equity Optics to Equity Action

PD: Equity | This program is completed

870 Williston Rd Burlington, VT 05403 United States

TBD

5.5 Professional Learning Hours

3/24/2020 (one day)

8:30 AM-3:00 PM EDT on Tue

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$50.00

Audience: Educators and Leaders, PreK-16

The health and wellness of the VT-HEC Community is of utmost importance in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. In light of this, we have decided to convert this in-person event to a virtual event to be held at the same day and time as the originally scheduled event. If you are registered for this workshop, you will receive details about how to access the live stream a few days prior to the event.



Building on the equity literacy framework, this workshop series will prepare educators, educational leaders, and equity specialists to cultivate equitable and just learning environments. We will move beyond individual awareness, cultural competence, and diversity appreciation to focus on strategies that result in deep and sustainable equity change. What does equity look like at an institutional level? What specific changes in policy, practice, and leadership ensure deeper levels of equity transformation? How do we organize for change, despite resistance? We will grapple with these questions and more to become more formidable threats to the existence of inequity in our spheres of influence. This session will support participants in designing strategies to combat racism in their environments.

What would racial equity efforts in schools look like if they were designed for deep and sustainable change? How can we cultivate racial equity that prioritizes the interests of families of color rather than the feelings of equity-hesitant educators? How can we organize for and implement this level of change despite the inevitable resistance? We will explore these questions in an interactive workshop designed to move us from racial awareness to racial justice action, both individually and institutionally. Participants will leave with plans of action to confront racism in their spheres of influence.

  • This is part of a larger series, comprised of webinars, workshop days, and a graduate course option, that provides a coherent and coordinated effort to reduce inequity in Vermont schools.
  • The VT-HEC Board of Directors has approved additional support for this series through our Mission Investment Fund, which enables us to greatly lower the workshop and course costs. Due to the low costs of this series, we are not able to provide refunds for cancellations.
Gorski, Paul

Paul is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute and EdChange. He has 20 years of experience helping educators strengthen their equity efforts in classrooms, schools, and districts; he has worked with educators in 48 states and a dozen countries. Paul has published more than 70 articles and has written, co-written, or co-edited twelve books on various aspects of educational equity including Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap and Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (with Seema Pothini). He is also the author of the Multicultural Pavilion, an online compendium of free resources for educators. Paul earned a PhD in Educational Evaluation at the University of Virginia and was a teacher educator at several universities for 15 years. He is also a published poet, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and the biggest fan of Buster, his cat.

Jackson, Taharee

Taharee Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Minority and Urban Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned a magna cum laude B.A. from Harvard University in Psychology and Spanish, a Master of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. from Emory University. Her areas of expertise include teacher education, pedagogies for diversity and equity, inclusive schooling practices and policies, and urban education reform. Taharee is particularly interested in how members of “privileged” groups become advocates and allies for others, and the most salient factors that influence the beliefs, practices, and retention of deeply committed urban teachers. Her racial equity work for both teachers and students has been published in Race, Ethnicity, and Education; The Poverty and Education Reader; Racism Review; and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Watch for her forthcoming book, A Different Way to be White: Becoming Antiracist Teachers and Teacher Educators.