Diversity/Equity Practitioner Leadership Development

• Anima Leadership

  • Offering consulting and training services for individuals, teams, and organizations in support of transformative change.

• Blink Consulting

  • Blink Consulting collaborates with schools to critically and compassionately rethink diversity. Created by educators for educators, Blink helps schools define the purpose, practice and outcomes of their diversity initiatives by offering a fresh lens and practical tools for schoolwide revision.

• Brave Spaces Institute

• CATDC (California Teacher Development Collaborative)

  • They host workshops throughout the year, some of which pertain to the development of equity practitioners and educators.

• Diversity IS: Diversity and Inclusion Magazine for Independent Schools

• Diversity Leadership Institute

• Due East Education Equity Collaborative

• Equity Literacy Institute

  • In addition to other offerings, they have an Equity Facilitator Training offering

  • Basic Principles for Equity Literacy

  • Equity Literacy for Educators: Definitions and abilities

• Explo Elevate: Innovative Schools Cooperative

• INSIGHT Into Diversity: Magazine to advance conversation on diversity and inclusion in higher education and beyond

• Institute for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (IDSJ)

• International Institute for Restorative Practices

• Language of Social Justice: Cheat Sheet

  • Defines key terms by describing what is meant and examples of what it is

• Making the Hidden Visible: The lived experience of DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) practitioners in independent school

  • This study, based on interviews with over 25 DEIJ practitioners in independent schools, explores the individual experiences and collective themes of those who live this role day in and day out. Implications for schools, including suggestions for school leadership, are also shared.

• Multicultural Leadership Institute

• National Diversity Practitioners Institute

• National Equity Project

• Pollyanna’s K-12 Racial Literacy Curriculum (free)

• Reads for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Compiled by @sheathescholar on Twitter)

  • Running list of recommendations

• Robin DiAngelo’s Resource Page: Critical Race and Social Justice Education

  • Free White Fragility Readers Guide

  • Resources for White Parents

• Rosetta Lee’s Training Modules

  • Some of my favorite resources from Rosetta:

    • Affinity Group Resource Page

    • Affinity Group General Information and FAQs

    • Ongoing Resources

    • Facilitating Courageous Conversations Visually

    • Old School Diversity to 21st Century Cultural Competency

• Social Justice Training Institute

• The Consortium of Equity Conferences

  • The Consortium of Equity Conferences (CEC), a group of progressive, like-minded organizations unified through their common interest in promoting access and equity through educational programs and conferences. Each CEC member organization is dedicated to peace, equity, and social justice. The consortium’s primary mission is to support, network, and take action.

• The Equity Exchange

  • Public & Private School Educational Leaders Sharing Strategic Solutions (K-16 administrators, staff and teachers)

  • Summer institute opportunity

• The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning

  • They host several 4-Day Summer Institutes across the country in addition to the other work that they do

• The Othering and Belonging Insitute

• The Perception Institute

  • Perception Institute is a consortium of researchers, advocates, and strategists who translate cutting edge mind science research on race, gender, ethnic, and other identities into solutions that reduce bias and discrimination, and promote belonging. We work in sectors where bias has the most profound impact—education, healthcare, media, workplace, law enforcement, and civil justice.

• The UnTraining: Healing personal & social oppressions:

  • The UNtraining is a provocative and compassionate approach to help people discover how to work together in extraordinary ways to end our collusion with racism and all forms of oppression. The UNtraining provides insights and tools for all levels of experience and activism to white people and people of color.

  • Available tracks:

    • UNtraining White Liberal Racism

    • People of Color UNtraining

    • Neither Here Nor There: Being Chinese in America

    • Jewish and White in America

• Transformative Educational Leadership

  • A Year-Long Journey in Mindfulness-Based Social, Emotional, Academic and Ethical Learning for K-12 Systemic Change

  • Two residential retreats July 27-29, 2018 & July 14-19, 2019 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, as well as a year of online curriculum and distance learning.

  • In this training with leaders in the fields of education, research, contemplative neuroscience, and resilience, we will be accessing the best evidence-based practices, curricula, and strategies for systemic educational transformation.

• Uprooting Inequity (Evidence-based workshops on the history, economics, and psychology of racism)

• Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

  • Through workshops, retreats, and customized programs that raise knowledge, motivation, and skills, VCIC develops leaders who work together to achieve success throughout the Commonwealth.

• Visions’ PACE Workshops

  • Visions Inc. mission is to 1. equip individuals, organizations, and communities with the tools needed to thrive in a diverse world, 2. to remove structural and cultural barriers that prevent full and equitable participation, 3. to help create environments where differences are recognized, understood, appreciated, and utilized for the benefit of all.

• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

• Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People (blog post)

• World Trust: Social Justice and Equity Movement Building

  • Films, curriculum, and workshops