Teaching While White: Understanding Whiteness and Its Impact on Teaching and Learning

https://catdc.org/inspire_events/teaching-while-white-understanding-whiteness-and-its-impact-on-teaching-and-learning-la/

A workshop for white teachers and administrators who understand that race matters in the classroom, but who still feel uncomfortable talking and engaging with racial topics, especially across racial difference. To better understand our own perspective, we will explore what it means to be “white” and why it matters. We will explore the concept of managing “racial stress” and what to do when we start to feel overwhelmed. We will discuss why being colorblind is not a solution, what language is appropriate to use, how stereotypes influence everyone, and how we can be more conscious of our own biases in the classroom to ensure we are effective teachers for all students.

Teaching While White: Understanding Whiteness and Its Impact on Teaching and Learning (LA)

Leading for Equity Institute (National Equity Project)

https://nationalequityproject.org/events/california/leading-for-equity

https://www.ostem.org/page/conference-2019

Touch base with Jamie Kennedy if you’re interested

The Center for Early Education

11/21/19-11/23/19

National Association for Multicultural Education Conference

By application (competitive). Chadwick sends a small cohort of adults and students, with priority given to people of color. Contact Ricco or Deb for more details.

Local racial equity organization in Long Beach. Long history and track record. Excellent PD.

Teaching While White is a 2-day intensive for white teachers and administrators who want to expand their strategies for increasing racial equity in schools. Participants will explore what it means to be “white” and why it matters.

NYSAIS Gender and Sexuality Competencies in PreK-12

https://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?id=3094&start=01/25/2020&verbose=20892

Ricco Siasoco is a facilitator. Focus on K12 gender and sexuality diversity from early childhood to high school. Of particular interest to classroom teachers, division heads, counselors.

Students from pre-school to high school need quality age-appropriate education and caring guidance from the immediate adults in their lives regarding every aspect of their development. Issues connected to gender and sexuality development will be foregrounded in this program, with ongoing attentiveness to the highly intersectional nature of all identity development.(e.g. Race, Religion, Culture, SES). Helping today’s students thrive means that ongoing education and support for teachers, staff, and parents must be part of school programming.

The ways we understand our own and other’s gender and sexuality development is ever-changing, complex and sometimes confusing. This conference focuses on helping participants (1) relate knowledgeably and comfortably to various aspects of gender and sexuality diversity and (2) be attuned to the their interconnectedness with other identity characteristics. The goal is for participants to gain knowledge and skills that will help with their efforts to make everyone feel safe and fully included within their school communities.

DESIGNING AND FACILITATING MEETINGS FOR EQUITY

How do I design agendas that help people do their best work and learning together? How do I create the conditions necessary to have hard conversations about equity issues? How can I help my group become a motivated team that is committed to the work they are doing together?What do I do when my group feels “stuck” or when strong emotions arise during conversations about equity?

Designing and Facilitating Meetings for Equity offers essential knowledge and skills for setting the conditions necessary for effective discussion and collaboration focused on equity work, as well as facilitation skills to support you to respond to the particular dynamics of the group you are working with. When planning adult learning, it’s essential to design an experience people will go through together that moves beyond a series of tasks or items to address. This is particularly true when guiding a group through conversations focused on issues of equity or other emotionally-charged challenges you face in your work together.

Designing the agenda and planning the activities is a crucial foundation for productive collaboration – but even the best plans can be sidelined by participant anxieties or volatile emotions that create unproductive group dynamics. Facilitating the particular dynamics of any group is complex, challenging work – especially when guiding people through discussions and work focused on equity issues.

The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2019 Creating Change Conference convenes in Detroit, Michigan January 23-27, 2019. We are excited to host our annual national movement gathering in the Motor City. We look forward to you joining us!

Creating Change is a space to bring our whole selves as well as our curiosity about others’ experiences and perspectives. We welcome people of diverse identities, opinions, and passions and we encourage everyone to share their own ideas and experiences and, especially, to ask questions. Our capacity to hold multiple perspectives and perhaps disagree is a valuable movement-building tool. The Task Force invites you to bring your curiosity, compassion and kindness to our conference community of activists, organizers, and advocates as we work to build the strongest possible LGBTQ and allied movement. We need each other to make progress.

https://www.theglasgowgroup.org/my-brothers-keeper-a-retreat-for-men-of-color-in-education.html

My Brothers’ Keeper is a bold, intersectional space specifically curated and designed by men of color for men of color in all of our diversity. As educators in predominantly white institutions, we share common experiences where we are not the “norm.” Therefore, our opportunities to gather as the majority are rare, making this space valuable. This professional development will aid our success in independent school systems by expanding our peer network, understanding the necessity of self-care, and providing the skills to navigate our identities in our workplace.

HRC, in partnership with the National Education Association and the American Counseling Association, present Time To THRIVE, the annual national conference to promote safety, inclusion and well-being for LGBTQ youth…everywhere! The premier, national convening to build the awareness and cultural competency, learn current and emerging best practices, and gather resources from leading experts and national organizations in the field.

https://www.csee.org/event/lee

This workshop, designed for early educators, will discuss age appropriate ways to develop intentionally inclusive and identity conscious children. Share your own best practices, hear from others, and engage in collaborative work time for reducing bias back in your own schools.

Zac, Elodie, and Jacquie to organize a Chadwick cohort. Reach out to them if you’re interested! Excellent opportunity for white anti-racist educators and many affinity spaces for racial identity development.

https://www.theglasgowgroup.org/lgbtq-educators-retreat.html

This professional development retreat is designed specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming educators and administrators. The weekend will be an exploration of how our identities impact and enhance our roles in education and will sharpen our tools for engaging with students and colleagues as our nation has critical conversations about our place at the table. We will share our stories and gather our wisdom for navigating our call to educational leadership. What does it mean to be an LGBTQ educator in a questionable world? Let's look for answers together.

The Othering & Belonging conferences, organized by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, are dynamic and uniquely curated events which aim to elevate work nationally and globally in "othering and belonging," a critical lens developed by the Haas Institute under the leadership of john a. powell for defining structural exclusion and inclusion, and an analytical and applied framework which we can use to design and advance institutions, narratives, and policies that support a more fully inclusive “we.”

National conference on race and ethnicity in education. Talk to Ricco as he has presented at NCORE in the past.

Ricco is on the planning committee for this national conference

https://www.theglasgowgroup.org/educators-retreat-for-women-of-color.html

Understanding that women of color face unique joys and challenges in the field of education, this retreat was designed specifically with you in mind! Retreat guests will have an opportunity to deepen their passion and skills as educators while sharing in the collective wisdom of the group. What drives us to be educators and leaders, and what skills and resources will we need to meet the challenges of today's professional world as women of color?

https://www.diversitypractitioners.org/

Weeklong intensive suitable for diversity practitioners (or burgeoning diversity practitioners)

Designed specifically for those who want to sharpen their skills and deepen their practice around creating equitable and inclusive school communities, the 3-day program will:
engage participants with interactive sessions that will deepen core knowledge around diversity, identity, and inclusion
provide a framework for developing and implementing trusted practices
give members an opportunity to plan their diversity efforts at their school with support from institute faculty throughout the year in a formal mentoring program
promote networking and resource sharing among members

​This conference is not meant solely for diversity directors.
NDPI is for practitioners - anyone who wishes to aid the building and sustaining of inclusive school communities.

Last year, we had among our group diversity directors, deans, admissions directors, teachers, curriculum coordinators, division heads, and assistant heads of school.

Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice

Chadwick faculty have attended in the past (e.g. Cicely Suazo, Sovie Chhin).

http://fmfp.org/about/mission-and-goals/

Free Minds, Free People is a national conference convened by the Education for Liberation Network that brings together teachers, young people, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation. Read more about our mission and goals.

https://shkingcounseling.org

Pete and others have attended; check in with them if you're interested.

https://www.genderspectrum.org/quick-links/events/conference-and-symposium/

This leading org in gender has facilitated workshops at Chadwick in the past.

Sovandara Chhin, Raena Hawkins, or David Bloom may be good resources for information about their teacher institutes.

Alan Hill is a good resource for more information.

maintained by Ricco Siasoco, current as of Sept. 7, 2019