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 [...]
Level Up Your Facilitation Practice: Facilitating for Equity
In this Facilitating for Equity community of practice, you will develop 5 competencies that distill the essence of our best facilitation practices: 1) Developing a Critical Consciousness, 2) [...]
Advocating for Your School, Students, and a Diverse and Brighter Future
Leaders will learn about the basic tenets of advocacy, identify an upcoming opportunity for advocacy that impacts their school, e.g., renewal, identify and map their own assets and resources that [...]
Disrupting General Education to Improve Special Education – Designing Schoolwide Systems that Work for ALL
When leaders design systems with learner variability at the center, all students benefit. This CoP is designed to ensure leaders can name the criteria for inclusive school-wide systems, [...]
Pass the Baton: Growing New Leaders
Whether you will need to find and train a new leader in a key role in the next year – or you are a new leader in the seat right now – how can you avoid dropping the baton in the handoff? This [...]
Leveraging Data for Equity in Collaborative Wraparound Teams
The use of data in education is often utilized in silos and decontextualized within our school community. In our Community of Practice, we aim to bring participants together to assess our [...]
Governing With Equity for Diverse by Design Schools
All of us in education are working to better understand how to make each school, and public education overall, more equitable. For boards, this work can be even harder. Charter school boards [...]
Dialogue as Disruption: Advancing Justice Through Conversation and Collective Action
Kindred Communities facilitates brave spaces to build the mindsets, skills, and energy needed to disrupt systemic oppression and create antiracist and liberated schools. Join this Community of [...]
Social Justice ABDs: Agitate, Build, Disrupt, and De-center
Dr. Aaron J. Griffen, VP of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at DSST Public Schools led DCSC members from 5 member schools. They developed Agitation Spaces and Norms for Disrupting the Master [...]
Academic Equity through Accelerated Learning
Dr. Winsome Waite and Angelica Jackson of Phoenix School for the Arts lead this CoP anchor on 7 key instructional strategies for accelerating student learning. Working with DCSC members from 8 [...]
