Professional Learning & Training
Professional learning time is precious, and your DEI goals can feel enormous. That’s why Education for the Good trainings are designed to immediately increase educator capacity and make equity work tangible and actionable. Our half-day workshops, full-day seminars, and year-long cohorts are designed to catalyze change in the critical areas of curriculum and culture.
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS
The Social Justice Standards
This training introduces the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards—a roadmap for anti-bias education at every grade level. Participants will learn how to use the framework’s domains, anchor standards, and student outcomes to bridge teaching about individual prejudice reduction and collective organizing.
Speak Up at School
In this training, participants learn specific strategies for speaking up when someone—a student, a colleague, a caregiver—uses biased language or stereotypes in school. We will also identify the harmful impact of biased language and consider ways we can address and prevent it in our daily work as educators.
Critical Conversations in the Classroom
This training builds educator capacity to confidently and skillfully facilitate discussions about the relationship between identity and power and how injustice affects our lives and society. Participants will learn strategies for preparing themselves and supporting their students before, during, and after critical conversations.
FOUNDATIONAL SEMINARS
Teaching for Critical Consciousness
This training provides a deep dive into how to use the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards in the curriculum to teach about systems of oppression and how to transform them. Participants will learn key entry points for integrating the SJS into lessons, units, and assessments through multimedia content, personal reflection, group discussion, modeling, application, and exploration.
Building a Beloved School Community
This training examines how the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards can be used to shape school culture and climate efforts and support communities where all students are welcomed, respected, cared for, and supported. The training incorporates multi-media content, personal reflection, group discussion, modeling, and time for goal-setting.
Developing an Upstander Culture
This seminar grounds the problem of biased language and its harmful impact in the context of broader diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Participants will discuss their diverse and shared experiences with biased language at school and consider how identity and power influence our responses to bias. After identifying, evaluating, and practicing strategies for developing upstander skills in ourselves and our students, participants plan individual and collective action.
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Anti-bias Curriculum Design Cohort
The goal of this year-long Cohort is to implement the Social Justice Standards through a process of instructional planning and backward design. Participating educators develop or revise a unit of study aligned to the Standards through a hybrid model of in-person seminars, asynchronous tasks, and customized one-to-one virtual coaching sessions. At the end of the year, cohort members share their anti-bias unit plans at a community showcase event.
Equity Action Research Cohort
The goal of this year-long Cohort is to utilize the Social Justice Standards as a tool for equity design and action research. Cohort members identify problems and propose solutions related to equity and school culture. Participating educators spend the school year examining specific “equity efforts” that work within their school community. This period of facilitated research and experimentation results in data-driven recommendations for schoolwide implementation.
ABCD Summer Lab
The Lab creates space for thoughtful, focused and justice-minded educators to come together over an intensive week of professional learning and curriculum planning. Over the course of the week, participants gain a deeper understanding of the SJS, examine pedagogical implications of anti-bias curriculum, and receive hands-on training in the Education for the Good anti-bias curriculum design model (ABCD). The Lab builds community and supports individual educators with a “think tank” model that includes time for independent and collaborative work. Each participant walks away with a ready-to-use anti-bias unit of study.