K-12 Equity Training

The K-12 Equity Training program provides targeted training for teachers and administrators, regardless of race and ethnicity, better equipping them to guide the learning paths of racially minoritized students effectively. 

This program is segmented into four modules, each containing four sessions, and is delivered in on-site, virtual, or hybrid formats. Contact us

In this 4-session module, educators will contextualize the achievement gap, and examine the history of institutional racism in education,  housing, and employment and its intergenerational effects on students and families. Training will cover redlining, school segregation, the school-to-prison pipeline, and other racist policies that have disadvantaged communities. Discussions will focus on understanding the roots of disparities as a first step toward change.

In this 4-session module, educators will learn research-based culturally responsive practices for engaging students, including cultivating relationships, incorporating diverse curricula, bridging home and school, adapting instruction to learning styles, and fostering identities of achievement. Strategies like l-and-response, communal learning, music integration, oral traditions, and divergent thinking approaches will be covered. Educators will self-assess their classrooms and develop goals. 

This 4-session module will provide tools for building an anti-racist school culture, including establishing collective commitments, identifying and interrupting implicit bias, implementing restorative justice, diversifying displays and materials, hiring more culturally similar teachers, and fostering identity safety. Participants will also examine discipline data and policies through an equity lens and develop alternatives to disparate practices.

In this 4-session module, educators will learn how to maintain academic rigor while affirming cultural assets. Strategies include scaffolding, differentiated instruction, formative assessment, metacognition, cooperative learning, and rigorous forms of discussion, writing, and questioning. Educators will analyze their grading and curriculum for access barriers and learn how to convey consistently high expectations.