DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING (DEIB) 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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8:00 - 9:00am
Registration, Breakfast & Welcome | 8:00 - 8:30am Breakfast & Check In | 8:00 - 8:30am Breakfast & Check In | 8:00 - 8:30am Breakfast & Check In | 8:00 - 8:30am Breakfast & Check In |
9:00 - 10:00am
Morning Session I | 8:30 - 10:00am Morning Session I | 8:30 - 10:00am Morning Session I | 8:30 - 10:00am Morning Session I | 8:30 - 10:00am Morning Session I |
10:00 - 12:00pm Morning Session II | 10:00 - 12:00pm Morning Session II | 10:00 - 12:00pm Morning Session II | 10:00 - 12:00pm Morning Session II | 10:00 - 12:00pm Morning Session II |
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch | 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch | 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch | 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch | 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch |
1:00 - 2:30pm
Afternoon Session I | 1:00 - 2:30pm Afternoon Session I | 1:00 - 2:30pm Afternoon Session I | 1:00 - 2:30pm Afternoon Session I | 1:00 - 2:00pm Award Ceremony & Closing |
2:30 - 4:00pm Afternoon Session II & Debrief | 2:30 - 6:30pm Afternoon Session II & DC Landmark Tour | 2:30 - 4:00pm Afternoon Session II & Debrief | 4:00 - 6:00pm Team Building Activity |
HOW TO REGISTER
Applications CLOSED.
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