Target Audience: Education leaders and educators, PreK-16, as well as those working for organizations striving to support VT children, youth, and families.

Building on the equity literacy framework, this course 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 course is built around 3 sixty minute webinars and 4 day-long in-person workshops led by the Equity Literacy Institute. Participants will strengthen their ability to create and sustain equitable schools and school systems. Lessons will focus on: cultivating deep understandings of equity and inequity; how these concepts operate in classrooms and schools; and learning how to advocate for and achieve equitable change. In addition to viewing the webinars and attending the in-person workshops, learners will discuss shared readings through an online platform. Participants will also create a project, tailored to their particular spheres of influence, that will support transformative visions in their work toward equity. These aspects of the course will be asynchronous, allowing participants flexibility to participate on their own schedules.

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 course cost. Due to the low costs of this series, we are not able to provide refunds for cancellations.