LIVESTREAM EVENT From Equity Awareness to Equity Action (4): An Economic Justice Approach to Eliminating Socioeconomic Inequities in Schools

PD: Equity | This program is completed

870 Williston Rd Burlington, VT 05403 United States

TBD

5.0 Professional Learning Hours

4/15/2020 (one day)

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

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$50.00

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 hold this as a virtual event to be held at the same day and time as the originally scheduled workshop. 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. Registered participants will also have access to a recording to watch at a later date.


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? This session will specifically support participants in designing strategies to strengthen economic justice in their environments.

Popular approaches designed to strengthen educational outcomes for students experiencing poverty tend to focus either on adjusting the mindsets of families experiencing poverty—an approach that was debunked in the late 1960s—or on small instructional or programmatic changes within big inequitable institutions. In this workshop, we will examine educational outcome disparities as an economic justice issue, asking what deeper, more transformative actions we might take to create institutional change within our spheres of influence—classrooms, schools, districts, communities. We will end by discussing approaches for advocating for a more serious approach to educational equity and justice for families experiencing poverty.

  • 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.