Center for Equity Leadership

An experiential, in-person Institute hosted by our Black Teacher Project focused on developing strategies for Black teacher leadership and sustainability. Black teachers share, reflect and set intentions for how to lead from the classroom while deepening their commitment, relationships and agency.

The Black Teacher Wellness Convening is a 2-day opportunity to be immersed in a cocoon of Black love where participants will reconnect to ancestral wisdom and their humanity as Black educators and leaders.

Develop and refine your coaching practice to support people in your school, district, or organization. Participants will examine their own coaching style with a focus on equity while practicing new coaching skills with each other.

The institute offers essential knowledge and skills for setting the conditions for effective collaboration focused on equity work and facilitation skills to support you to respond to the dynamics of your group.

Strengthen your approach to leading complex equity efforts by exploring complexity frameworks, reflecting on your own leadership, and developing skills to navigate change work. Note: This is a hybrid offering, 2-days in person with a 3-hour virtual follow up.

Our residential Leading for Equity Institute supports teams to develop individual and collective leadership at every level of schools, districts, foundations or nonprofit organizations. Teams of leaders deepen their commitment, relationships, and efficacy while developing strategies toward equity goals.

Healing must be prioritized as we work collaboratively towards transformation and liberation; it cannot wait until our systems are redesigned. This course will support you to explore how to center and integrate processes for ongoing individual, interpersonal and collective healing when working, collaborating, and designing for equity.

This course provides you with a framework for building trust with students across differences of identity and tools for leverage that trust in service of increased student engagement and thriving.

Develop and refine your coaching practice to support people in your school, district, or organization. Participants will examine their own coaching style with a focus on equity while practicing new coaching skills with each other. This 6-session course offers an in-depth introduction to out Coaching for Equity framework and approach.

Discover the transformative power of intentional meeting design as you guide groups through conversations focused on issues of equity and other emotionally-charged challenges. This 4-session course provides practical strategies for cultivating the conditions necessary for effective discussions on equity, navigating unique dynamics, and fostering deep connections and engagement within your groups.

Our Leading for Equity in Racial Affinity virtual courses are highly experiential and provide opportunities for sharing, reflection, and planning to inform your current work toward equity goals. We offer affinity-based courses to foster appropriate learning, growth, and healing.

Liberatory Design is an approach that knits together human-centered design thinking with an equity lens and a complexity stance. This course will guide you through the non-linear process for weaving this approach into your work.

Pause and reflect on the ways that urgency is showing up in your leadership. Center intentionality of purpose and pace as central to equity work. Recognize how, when, and why urgency manifests in ourselves and our organizations. Begin dreaming of alternative ways to build in sacred pauses as a way to sustain us in this work. These steps are vital for fostering a more thoughtful and sustainable approach to leadership and equity initiatives.

Attending to our individual healing is essential, and insufficient if it is not also connected to our collective healing. Explore how to center and integrate ongoing individual and collective healing processes when working, collaborating, and designing for equity.

Racial affinity structures have become a more frequently used strategy for working toward racial justice within organizations and collaboratives. This workshop explores the nuance and intricacy of how to establish and host these types of spaces when engaging a shared vision of equity in a multiracial/multicultural context.

This workshop is designed to support school leaders in learning best practices to recruit, hire, and retain Black teachers.

This workshop will connect with other equity leaders around the world and offer you new tools to add to your equity practice. This is a basic introduction to Liberatory Design Mindsets and Moves. For a deeper dive, check out our Liberatory Design course above!

Affinity structures have become a common strategy for working toward racial justice within organizations. This workshop explores National Equity Project’s 3A approach (Alone, Affinity, Across Difference).

This workshop explores what we understand about bias – how it is formed, how it sticks in our consciousness, it’s role in individual, institutional & structural oppression, and what we can do about it. 

This workshop provides an opportunity for BIPOC/PGM equity leaders to come together and learn from each other, build community, and strengthen their individual and collective leadership for equity. It also emphasizes the importance of protected spaces for reflection and healing.

This workshop aims to support leadership development by exploring new ways of seeing, engaging, and acting with increased agency, purpose, and efficacy. It offers foundational ideas on how to approach equity work as white people.

We are all living in challenging times that our past experience and training has not sufficiently prepared us for. Too often, well intentioned equity efforts do not succeed—and even produce unintended consequences. This can lead to frustration, hopelessness and cynicism. This workshop offers an introduction to our Liberatory Design approach.

At the core of Liberatory Design are a set of beliefs: racism and inequity have been designed into systems and thus can be designed out of systems; designing for equity requires the meaningful participation of those impacted by inequity; and equity-driven designs require equity and complexity informed processes.

Oppressive systems have caused collective harm by creating structures that dehumanize and divide us. Transforming unjust systems requires co-creating cultures founded on care, compassion and collective wellbeing.

Our institute champions healing as a key to achieving equity and liberation. We tackle systemic oppression, including racial and gender biases, empowering individuals through personal and collective healing. Drawing from ancestral wisdom, we integrate holistic healing practices into our collaborative efforts for designing equitable systems.

Join us for a follow-up session to deepen your understanding and practice about what it means to support the learning, growth, and development of another person toward equitable outcomes.

Join us for a follow-up session to deepen your understanding and practice about what it means to design an experience that moves beyond a series of tasks or items to address and support the learning, growth, and development of a group you are working with.

Join us for a follow-up session to deepen your understanding and practice in using a Liberatory Design approach to address complex equity challenges in your system.