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What are the Communities of Practice offerings for the 23-24 school year? Read below to meet one facilitator team. For more updates, visit our CoP page.

Antonio Pares – Brightbeam

Christie Huck – City Garden Montessori

Meet your 23-24 CoP Facilitators

Christie Huck is CEO of City Garden Montessori School in St. Louis, Missouri. With a background in community organizing and social activism, Christie entered the education reform movement as a parent and community member concerned about racism and segregation in schools. She worked with City Garden’s founder and parents to develop City Garden Montessori Charter School, an anti-biased, antiracist neighborhood Montessori school community. She lives in St. Louis with her three children and her corgi.

Antonio Parés is a former charter school teacher, district leader, and citywide leader who has gone through a variety of DEI trainings that helped him strengthen his own skills and further develop his own mindset regarding DEI in schools and the broader education sector. After his school and school system experience, he went on to found Denver’s Diverse Funders Group. Antonio facilitated a group of ten foundation employees of color through activities that led a collective giving strategy that prioritized the investment of nonprofits led by leaders of color in the Denver education space.

CoP Overview

Through DCSC’s newly formed Advocacy CoP, schools will learn about the basic tenets of advocacy, develop an advocacy mindset, and craft an advocacy strategy for an upcoming opportunity that impacts their school, e.g., renewal. Leaders will have access to case studies from inside and outside the coalition, national experts with a history of successful advocacy efforts, and ongoing coaching during their implementation phase.

Schools that are prepared to design and implement an advocacy strategy over the next 12 months. Schools should have the time and be willing to commit to a year-long CoP ending with implementing and taking action on their advocacy strategy, which means participants should have an upcoming opportunity for advocacy, such as a renewal or a state vote on education funding.

Target Audience: Schools that are prepared to design and implement an advocacy strategy over the next 12 months. Schools should have the time and be willing to commit to a year-long CoP ending with implementing and taking action on their advocacy strategy, which means participants should have an upcoming opportunity for advocacy, such as a renewal or a state vote on education funding.

Advocating for Your School and a Diverse by Design Future will be meeting at the following dates and times for 23-24 School Year (all ET). Unless noted all meetings are held virtually on Zoom.

  • October 12 2pm
  • November 1 2:30pm
  • December 6 2:30pm
  • January 31 and Feb 1 (in person at The California Endowment – Los Angeles, CA)
  • February 7 2:30pm
  • March 6 2:30pm
  • April 3 2:30pm
  • May 1 2:30pm
  • May 30  (CoP WRAP Party) 3 – 4:30pm ET
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