

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND ANTIRACISM (DEIA) Leadership Institute
DETAILED DAILY SCHEDULE
Day 1
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Establish learning norms to support the climate and culture of “Getting into Good Trouble at School.”
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Engage in team-building experiences that will afford opportunities to build relationships and develop safe and “brave” space.
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Unpack cultural, social, and historical narratives to discover uncomfortable truths about themselves and the communities they serve.
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Cultivate and encourage the expression of counter-narratives in order to delegitimize racist and non-egalitarian practices, capturing the vision of the social transformations they wish to see.
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Establish routines and social structures to dismantle the inequities that those routines perpetuate.
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Interpret their Individualized Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) results.
Day 2
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Analyze racial inequities that have been impacting BIPOC students since their first days of schooling, which have been compounding over time.
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Identify strategies and interventions to address these racial inequities in order to minimize life-long financial, health, and well-being differences between White and BIPOC students.
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Generate ideas to challenge predominant paradigms in schooling to better understand the contexts and circumstances of all children’s lives.
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Promote racial literacy and racial fluency among all stakeholders within their school system.
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Generate strategies for fighting the deep resistance that may come when centering racial equity as the foundation of educational excellence.
Day 3
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Understand the potential for student placement and tracking systems to produce significant educational harms and work to produce equitable systems that provide an excellent educational experience to all students.
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Ensure that no student is locked into a path that limits their options.
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Determine how student placement practices and tracking (e.g., special education and talented and gifted programs) have been used to segregate students based on race and work to ensure a representational balance in all programs.
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Mitigate the damage done to students by tracking programs including student motivation, engagement, and achievement with lowered educational interest, attainment, and performance.
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Identify ways that Culturally Responsive Teaching can positively impact student learning.
Day 4
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Create disciplinary processes that create community and restoration.
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Understand the nature of the school to prison pipeline and its racist impact on BIPOC students and take steps to disengage the school system from the juvenile justice system.
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Analyze the racial disparities in disciplinary actions and work to eradicate them.
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Work off of strategic plans that are continuously updated road maps aimed at realizing their vision for equity.
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Create well-articulated, equity driven strategic plans that include key performance indicators, necessary resources, clearly articulated timeline, explicit roles and responsibilities, and a sustainable communication plan.
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Understand the “Change Process” and be able to navigate through uncharted waters.
Day 5
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Boldly and courageously call out practices and policies that are racist and work to dismantle them.
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Get in the way and cause Good Trouble through vision, integrity and passion.
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Accept that this work will be emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining.
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Upend established priorities to make racial equity the top priority striving tirelessly for the well-being and academic achievement of BIPOC students.
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Support staff, students, parents, and the community in overcoming adversity and achieving a true vision for equity and the sustained achievement of all learners.
Snapshot of Weekly Schedule - Summer 2023
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Morning
| Morning
| Morning
| Morning
| Morning
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Introductions +
Stories | Module 2 | Module 2/3 | Module 4 | Module 6 |
Afternoon
| Afternoon
| Afternoon
| Afternoon
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Module 1 | Whole Group
Learning Activity
National Museum of African American Culture and History | Module 3 | Module 5 | |
Evening | Evening | Evening | Evening | |
DJ, Welcome Happy Hour
(Sponsored/Rooftop) |
On your own /
Team Dinners |
Fun Whole Team
Even in DC |
Whole Group
Dinner
(Celebration and Awards) |
HOW TO APPLY
Applications will open in mid-February and will be accepted on a rolling basis through mid-April.
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