Events for Intentionally Integrated Schools

This live virtual event is hosted by Future Ready Schools® (FRS).

The Creating Future Ready Schools® Workshop will dive deeply into the Future Ready Framework, the five-step planning process, and the tools and resources available to you and your district to create an innovative learning environment for students.

As we embark on learning spaces inside and outside the school building, we see dramatic differences and gaps in innovation. Districts and schools across the nation are transforming into ones that are future ready, revamping aspects such as teacher empowerment, personalized professional learning, innovative learning spaces, community partnerships, digital learning initiatives, and others. This workshop will inspire school leaders and provide free tools and resources to empower them to transform their districts, schools, and classrooms into ones that better prepare students for the world they face tomorrow. Participants will leave with access to the many tools and resources that Future Ready Schools® (FRS) offers.

Hear firsthand from future ready districts that leverage the Future Ready Framework and planning process to propel their district forward.

This live virtual event is hosted by Future Ready Schools® (FRS).

Leadership and school culture lay the foundation for systemic change, whether in the physical school building or during remote learning. Future ready school and district leaders utilize an equity-focused lens and have the courage to embrace curricular and instructional enhancements as learning needs evolve and as the culture demands. A forward-thinking, future ready vision is advanced through leaders’ transformative thinking and collaborative endeavors, especially during times of continuous change.

During this team-based workshop, your district of three or more leaders will join teams from across the country to collaborate to build networks of like-minded colleagues, generate feedback on practices, share ideas and experiences around creating a culture of leadership.

This live virtual event is hosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gave states much more flexibility in designing their school accountability systems. Unfortunately, new analyses from the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) show that flexibility and equity often conflict. Under ESSA, the state in which students live matters a great deal.  

Our When Equity Is Optional series of analyses finds that states have used ESSA’s flexibility to take wildly varied approaches to school ratings and school improvement.  The result is that students in low-performing schools in different states have very different odds of receiving the support they need to improve. Using data from the first year of ESSA implementation, we find that while some states ensure that the lowest-rated schools and high schools with low graduation rates are consistently identified for support, others made choices that result in these schools—and their students—being overlooked. The variation is especially troubling given that, across all states, students of color are much more likely to attend low-rated schools.  

This live virtual event is hosted by DCSC member, City Neighbors Foundation.

Ten years ago, City Neighbors Foundation sought to create an opportunity for educators and advocates to gather, learn, and network. They added inspirational keynote speakers, provided breakfast and lunch, and the first Progressive Education Summit was born. And they committed to provide all of it at no cost to the participants.

Ten years later, this event calls to reimagine schools rooted in democracy, social justice, and authentic engagement. In acknowledgment of the new virtual landscape, this Summit is held over the course of several days using an entirely revised and virtual format:

• Tuesday, January 19, 7 PM:   Kickoff and 10th Anniversary Keynote Speaker
• Thursday, January 21, 5 PM:  Workshop Night!
• Saturday, January 23, 9 AM: Reimagining Education: Polyvocal Keynote & Master Classes

This live virtual event is hosted by the RIDES Institute.

In the wake of the structural and systemic racism revealed in the COVID pandemic and the recent and continued police killings, more and more schools, districts, and charter management organizations are eager to dismantle the racism in their own institutions.

This January, Harvard RIDES is offering a free intensive clinic for school leadership and equity teams on

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 and Monday, February 1, 2021.

Admission is by application only, and we will select up to eight teams from schools committed to learning how to address these questions:

• How do we work together to genuinely tackle racial inequity in our schools? What do we have to learn and to do to develop a strong Personal and Team Equity Culture?
• What should we work together on? What is a high priority, attainable goal for equity improvement that we can make this year, will be impactful, and will strengthen our equity culture?

Click here to learn more and apply for the intensive. [Deadline: Dec. 7]