Resource Guide – Beyond the Basics: Transforming Literacy Instruction
Beyond the Basics: Transforming Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners and Students of Color is a groundbreaking professional development series designed to empower educators to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments for diverse student populations. By exploring strategies and best practices tailored for English Language Learners and students of color, this series aims to drive transformative change in literacy instruction in Title 1 schools.
Resource Guide – Level Up Your Facilitation Practice: Facilitating for Equity
Facilitation is the art of leading people through processes towards agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, ownership & creativity by all those involved.”” – David Sibbet, Principles of Facilitation
Facilitating for Equity transforms teachers, leaders, & education professionals into child & human rights activists. Effective DEI facilitation requires a deep theoretical knowledge of inequity & oppression, a developed self-awareness of one’s own racial & social identities, an understanding of the myriad experiences & identities participants bring, & strong communication & conflict resolution skills.
In this Facilitating for Equity community of practice, you will develop 5 competencies that distill the essence of our best facilitation practices:
Developing a Critical Consciousness
Engaging in Collaborative Co-Conspiratorship
Cultivating Brave Learning Spaces
Practicing Equitable Communication
Embodying Compassionate Accountability
Our facilitation model addresses antiracism head on, beginning with personal healing while evolving into a collective commitment to building an antiracist ecosystem. Grounded in liberatory education for learners of all ages, we walk hand-in-hand with facilitators to establish a reflective, action-driven foundation. These skills & practices are imperative as education leaders work to create affirming, inclusive, & equitable learning environments for all students and especially marginalized students.
Resource Guide – Advocating for Your School, Students, and a Diverse and Brighter Future
Through DCSC’s newly formed Advocacy CoP, schools learned about the basic tenets of advocacy, developed an advocacy mindset, and crafted an advocacy strategy for an upcoming opportunity that impacts their school, e.g., renewal. Leaders engaged with 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 designed and implemented an advocacy strategy during this CoP. Schools are now commited to a their advocacy strategy such as a renewal or a state vote on education funding.
Resource Guide – Disrupting General Education to Improve Special Education
When leaders design systems with learner variability at the center, all students benefit. This CoP aimed to ensure leaders can name the criteria for inclusive school-wide systems, specifically as it relates to learner variability, and evaluate their existing vision and systems through this lens. Leaders walked away with a framework for inclusive schools and an analysis of their own systems and a set of concrete action steps needed to improve their systems.
