Upcoming Member Events

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

Future Ready Librarians® lead beyond the library, collaborating not only with teacher colleagues, but with building and district leaders to prepare future ready learners. Creating exciting and dynamic opportunities for future ready learners requires shared leadership among librarians, instructional coaches, principals, technology leaders, and district administrators.

During this unprecedented time when students are learning from home, one of the most important partnerships is the one between librarians and administrators. During this webinar, our guests with explain how librarians and administrators can work together to benefit students and teachers and ensure continuity of learning.

Our guests will discuss

• current and future needs of students and schools during the pandemic;
• opportunities for new or sustained collaboration between librarians and administrators;
• stories and examples of partnership and collaboration; and
  strategies for effectively engaging and partnering with teachers and administrators.

Collaborative leadership is the key to success. Join us to learn how you can foster a relationship with your administrators.

This live virtual event is hosted by the New York Charter Schools Association.

This live virtual event is hosted by the RIDES Institute.

This is the second part of a two-part series.

Join the RIDES Institute for a discussion among school leaders moderated by Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson, Dr. Mary Anton, and Dr. Lee Teitel. Session 1 will focus on opportunities attendees see in their planning for reopening schools next year to keep race and equity at the center. Recognizing that we will not be returning to the “old normal,” you may find it useful to think of these three sub-questions:

1. What aspects of the way your site has addressed race and equity in the past (before the pandemic) do you want to make sure to return to?
2. What aspects do you want to make sure you don’t return to?
3. What are some innovations and adaptations that are taking place during the pandemic –that are actually reducing inequities — that you would like to hold onto?

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

Strong family-school-community partnerships are critical when transitioning to student-centered learning. The relationship between the school and the community can strengthen, support, and transform the learning process for students. Through the Future Ready Schools®(FRS) framework, specifically the community partnerships gear, schools and districts are encouraged to create formal and informal connections with families, local businesses, and organizations to advance the development of their student-centered learning initiative. It is important for schools to embrace their role as a pivotal component of the community and develop a shared vision with all stakeholders, including partners that operate outside of the school walls. During this time when student learning is remote, these relationships are even more important as students often do not have the same resources at home as they do when in school. Now is the time to revive community partnerships to play a more active role in the education of students.

In this webinar, our guests Dr. Anthony Jackson and Michael Abensour will share two perspectives on creating and participating in school-to-community partnerships for student-centered learning, specifically as they relate to providing greater access to learning resources. From developing interest to sustaining relationships, these leaders will describe what it takes to generate buy-in from educators and the community to work toward a mutual goal.

This live virtual event is hosted by Coalition of Public Independent Charter Schools.

Over the past two months our schools have responded nimbly to the coronavirus crisis, continuously finding workable solutions to unprecedented problems. As the school year comes to a close, we have the opportunity to envision the best ways to move forward in this new landscape. Over the next few weeks and months, we will all find different ways to balance student wellbeing with academic progress, to keep our communities safe while staying connected. Let’s brainstorm together.

Join CPICS on Wednesday, June 10th for their next national virtual meeting. Attendees will think beyond the current reality and plan for the school year ahead. How do we make sure that distance learning engages all students equitably? What are the strengths independent charter schools can leverage in this time of uncertainty to support students and staff? And what do we prioritize as we consider all the different ways forward?

This live virtual event is hosted by Education Week.

Education Week will be hosting an online summit to examine how the massive school closures caused by the coronavirus and the rapid transition to remote learning across the country is re-shaping the role and use of technology in schools now and for years to come. During this virtual event, Education Week writers and editors and their expert guests will staff “discussion rooms” that tackle a set of issues that are very much top-of-mind for teachers, principals, and district leaders, who are arguably working under the most difficult circumstances ever. Education Week’s newsroom offers you an opportunity to ask tough questions and better understand the educational technology challenges facing schools as they struggle to figure out what the next steps are for the K-12 system.

Click here to Register for Diversity Talks: White Folks (Part I): We have to Talk About Race

Memorial Day weekend for some meant taking the space to acknowledge and mourn fellow battle buddies. Memorial Day weekend for Black people meant waking up from what was considered to be “a long weekend of rest” to seeing white people use their power and privilege against Black bodies on more than one occasion. It’s attempting to balance the need to talk about George Floyd and Christian Cooper, while suppressing the pain and fear heard in both of their voices as if they knew death was around the corner. Death, due to the fact that their skin tones have been weaponized by white people who later apologize and receive a slap on the wrist because their racism is masked in fear and ignorance. Time and time again, Black bodies lie in the streets and the conversations quickly shift to whether or not they deserved to be murdered.

It’s easier to place blame on individuals than it is to do the internal work that’s needed to dismantle systems of injustice. The internal work of identifying how we individually contribute to these inequitable systems. The internal work of recognizing what it means to be white in the United States. The internal work of analyzing how white fear derives from the thought of losing power and privilege and the white guilt that comes with it, while Black people fear losing their lives daily and experience the guilt of not having the energy to speak on another murder.

Diversity Talks was founded because there was a need for this internal work to happen. We must dissect the layers of our identities while acknowledging the complexity of others. We must recognize the need for continuous expansion of cultural knowledge and we must do so without the fear of sounding ignorant or upsetting the next person. The more time that we spend not acknowledging that individual, institutional, and interpersonal racism still exists, people that look like me and our youth will continue to become hashtags. #StopKillingUs

As a Black, same-gender-loving, woman that founded an organization grounded in racial equity, I am working hard to compartmentalize my rage into action. And in doing so, I have compiled resources for anyone seeking to do the internal work. Most of which I have pulled from social media along with a two-part webinar series that we are offering this summer. Please share this information with your networks until the message is loud and clear: Stop Killing Us!

-Kiara Butler
CEO & Founder, Diversity Talks

This live virtual conference is presented by National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

NCSCvirtual will take place over three days—July 16, 23, and 30—focusing on three areas of interest to schools: remote learning, reopening schools in the fall, and reimagining schools. The conference will have many of the great elements of the in-person event; keynote speakers, breakout sessions, homerooms, and networking opportunities, all from the comfort and safety of your home.

This live virtual event is hosted by FOCUS DC.

The Annual DC Data Summit will provide DCPS and PCS teachers, leaders, and staff with an opportunity to learn the latest trends and best practice for data-driven instruction, decision-making, and performance management. Attend workshops around data analysis, communicating with data, blended learning, continuous improvement, and more! Registration is free and open to all PCS and DCPS teachers, leaders, and staff, as well as non-profit partners and stakeholders.

Contact Preety with any questions or special accommodation requests at ppatidar@focusdc.org.

Memorial Day weekend for some meant taking the space to acknowledge and mourn fellow battle buddies. Memorial Day weekend for Black people meant waking up from what was considered to be “a long weekend of rest” to seeing white people use their power and privilege against Black bodies on more than one occasion. It’s attempting to balance the need to talk about George Floyd and Christian Cooper, while suppressing the pain and fear heard in both of their voices as if they knew death was around the corner. Death, due to the fact that their skin tones have been weaponized by white people who later apologize and receive a slap on the wrist because their racism is masked in fear and ignorance. Time and time again, Black bodies lie in the streets and the conversations quickly shift to whether or not they deserved to be murdered.

It’s easier to place blame on individuals than it is to do the internal work that’s needed to dismantle systems of injustice. The internal work of identifying how we individually contribute to these inequitable systems. The internal work of recognizing what it means to be white in the United States. The internal work of analyzing how white fear derives from the thought of losing power and privilege and the white guilt that comes with it, while Black people fear losing their lives daily and experience the guilt of not having the energy to speak on another murder.

Diversity Talks was founded because there was a need for this internal work to happen. We must dissect the layers of our identities while acknowledging the complexity of others. We must recognize the need for continuous expansion of cultural knowledge and we must do so without the fear of sounding ignorant or upsetting the next person. The more time that we spend not acknowledging that individual, institutional, and interpersonal racism still exists, people that look like me and our youth will continue to become hashtags. #StopKillingUs

As a Black, same-gender-loving, woman that founded an organization grounded in racial equity, I am working hard to compartmentalize my rage into action. And in doing so, I have compiled resources for anyone seeking to do the internal work. Most of which I have pulled from social media along with a two-part webinar series that we are offering this summer. Please share this information with your networks until the message is loud and clear: Stop Killing Us!

-Kiara Butler
CEO & Founder, Diversity Talks

This live virtual conference is presented by National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

NCSCvirtual will take place over three days—July 16, 23, and 30—focusing on three areas of interest to schools: remote learning, reopening schools in the fall, and reimagining schools. The conference will have many of the great elements of the in-person event; keynote speakers, breakout sessions, homerooms, and networking opportunities, all from the comfort and safety of your home.

This live virtual conference is presented by National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

NCSCvirtual will take place over three days—July 16, 23, and 30—focusing on three areas of interest to schools: remote learning, reopening schools in the fall, and reimagining schools. The conference will have many of the great elements of the in-person event; keynote speakers, breakout sessions, homerooms, and networking opportunities, all from the comfort and safety of your home.