We are here for our members and will continue to work for you and with you. The DCSC team wants to acknowledge the engagement, participation, and support DCSC members provide. As an organization, DCSC is where we are today because of members and the community that has been created by all of us. We also want to recognize where members are now during this pandemic – times are challenging. As such, we’ve suspended our outreach to members to help monetarily sustain our work. If you’ve already shown your support to DCSC – thank you.

We are all learning how to navigate during COVID-19. This new learning doesn’t mean we’ve stopped our work – it’s that we’re re-thinking how we’re doing it. It’s important that DCSC stays true to course and that we keep at the forefront of why we do what we do. That we continue to strive towards living our values and belief that “Charter schools can contribute to solving the historic challenge of integrating our public school system.”  You can see this in the two-part blogs we released on Anti-Black and Anti-Asian racism during the pandemic and in how we’ve pivoted our Events Page to reflect the virtual opportunities for education leaders.

If you would still like to make a contribution to DCSC or another organization serving impacted communities, we encourage you to participate in #GivingTuesdayNow on May 5th. Don’t hesitate to reach out if there is anything that you need.

Community of Practice Proposal
Deadline extended to May 8th

Members have continued to stretch their thinking with each other in DCSC’s four Communities of Practice groups!

Tyrone Mowatt of Benjamin Banneker Public Charter School, has been challenging how members approach crisis transition to inform long-lasting design changes to data infrastructure. Kelly Wickham Hurst of Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training is hosting coaching calls for member school teams helping them keep anti-bias center through the shifts demanded by COVID-19. Sahba Rohani of Roots ConnectED has supported members in building anti-bias and anti-racist frameworks into the 2020-2021 year. Finally, we look forward to Sara Cotner and Nicole Evans’s You Belong Here Toolkit – a set of resources on developing an inclusive school culture. Interested in facilitating a CoP group with us next year?

Submit a proposal
by May 8th!

UnifiED Explorer Program

Check out DCSC online!