One of the current hot topics in education is district, school, and classroom level equity toward children of color and other underserved student populations. This highly engaging, interactive, self-reflective workshop focuses on school leadership relative to issues of equity, social justice education, and race in the classroom. It challenges school leaders to look within themselves relative to how they see, treat, and relate with their staff and students in these areas. It challenges school leaders to confront whatever biases they may bring to their own leadership practices that may be unconscious, implicit, and/or explicit. It argues that high-performance is an impossibility in school learning environments where equity fails to exist.
Principal Kafele will share strategies toward creating and sustaining an equitable school environment that will be inclusive of important conversations around race, diversity, cultural competence, and the infusion of social justice education.

This session is Part 3 of the Special Education Equity by Design (SEED) Project. The sessions in this project are free and will be offered via the Zoom platform. There are six sessions in this series and each is a stand-alone session.

Statewide PK-12 public or charter school staff including administrators, counselors, teachers, auxiliary staff, counselors, fine arts staff, paraeducators, substitute teachers, parental involvement liaisons, migrant staff. Also, community members including school board members and professionals from higher education are encouraged to attend. Although this session is advertised as a special education project, the content to be shared will benefit all general education staff and leaders.

Administration & Leadership
Advanced Academics
Bilingual / ESL
Coaching for Leaders
Coaching for Teachers
College/Career Readiness
Counselors
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Curriculum
Discipline Management
Diversity and Special Needs Populations
Fine Arts
ILN – Instructional Leadership Network
ILP3/Alternative Certification for Principals
Migrant
Parental Involvement
Project PaCE/Alternative Certification for Educators
Social/Emotional Development
Special Education