This course is designed to equip school board members with the practical skills needed in strategic fiscal management, finance policy analysis and financial leadership so they can focus on deploying resources in ways that do the most for all students. The course is hands-on and practice-based, not finance theory. The overarching goal is to help school board members make strategic spending decisions on behalf of students and rooted in their own local context while engaging communities and ensuring their systems are set up for financial sustainability.

The cost is $850 per person.

For questions, please email Jordan.Tollefson@georgetown.edu.

FINANCE FRIDAYS, 12:00 – 2:00 PM ET:

SEPTEMBER 16
SEPTEMBER 23
SEPTEMBER 30
OCTOBER 7

After several years of pandemic closures, Valor is excited to be officially welcoming visitors back to our campus on September 19th and November 7th to experience Compass Circles. In addition to observing student Compass Circles, visitors will learn about the foundational components of Valor’s Compass model through an introductory session, experience the supportive framework the Compass offers to educators by personally completing a leadership badge, and practice vulnerable leadership through sharing individual reflections in a facilitated experiential adult Compass Circle. Visitors will also hear from school leaders + teachers about their own experience implementing and engaging in the Compass model in a facilitated Q+A.

This webinar will explore the Equity Leadership Framework and the essential leadership attributes in creating a culture centered around everyday equity actions that matter. Leaders will gain insight and learn strategies to effectively lead equity efforts by
*Defining and clarifying equity. This is the foundation from which all things will flow. We will explore the importance of creating a working definition of equity and why this definition is so crucial for the other framework components to function optimally.
*Creating productive discomfort. Creating a new normal where adults get comfortably uncomfortable to challenge the status quo through intentional dialogue conscious of race.
*Building efficacy. Monitoring adult beliefs and supporting the development of higher levels of individual and shared efficacy.
*Normalizing action. Ensuring that staff routinely use an equity lens in gathering and using data and providing instruction for consistent and sustained success over time.

Equity calls for courageous leadership. Join this webinar for a journey of discovery about the importance of leveraging focus, competence, and passion to confidently forge an unconventional path that will authentically lead to equity.

About the Presenter:

Dwayne Chism is the Dean of the School of Education at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska. He supports equity work at the local, state, and national levels and works to support the development of current and aspiring leaders of color across the United States. Chism previously served as a principal supervisor, principal, and teacher. In 2018, he founded Shifting Perspectives, LLC, to help schools navigate diversity to create equitable conditions for learning.

In addition to having planned conversations with your child, moments that provide an opportunity to discuss racism and bias arise when we aren’t expecting it, and we must say something. This workshop will focus on speaking up in the moment when racist and biased incidents occur. Through the use of scenarios, participants will have a chance to think through their responses and learn a number of sentence starters as options for support in speaking up in the moment. Thinking through and practicing what we might say in these moments can help build our confidence for when these opportunities do arise.

Facilitators: Natalie Ginsberg, Michelle Felder

The Center for Black Educator Development is offering a series of free workshops to school leaders and teachers grounded in some of our cultural proficiency competencies and pursuits. All workshops are 2 hours long and will be held virtually. There will be a maximum of 60 educators allowed to register for each workshop offered. Although the workshops are not designed to be a series we highly encourage you to attend as many workshops as you can for your respective educator group (teacher or school leader).

Workshop Descriptions: Click here to access a more detailed description of the workshops we are offering.

An important conversation that must start at a very young age, is one around privilege and power. Systems are set up to inherently give more power to one group of folks over the other. So how do you talk about this with your child in a way that your child can understand? How do you do this in a way that separates humans from systems while not negating the responsibility of the humans in that system? In this workshop, our presenters will be facilitating space for white parents to be advocates of raising anti-racist children through explicit every day conversations and leading by example.

Facilitators: Blair Welsh, Elizabeth Bidart

The annual Black Men Educator Convening is BACK! The Center for Black Educator Development is thrilled to hold #BMEC2022 November 17-19, 2022 in Philadelphia. The convening creates a communal, empathetic space to discuss the deeply emotional, intellectual, and trajectory-altering work revolutionary Black men educators do on a daily basis.