Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice
Educator & School Supports
Purpose
As part of Washtenaw ISD's commitment to Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice, we have created opportunities for educator learning and growth around issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, culture and diversity over the past several years. Our work with educators began with the Understanding Race Project in 2012 and continued in the 2014-2015 school year with the founding of the "Culture & Diversity Task Force" to help create a vision for this work over the next 5-10 years. In the 2016-2017 school year we started the Justice Leaders, multiple, in-depth professional learning series for educators passionate about issues of equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice.
Email Dr. Shayla Griffin
Email Dr. Shayla Griffin
*New* Upcoming Offerings
Justice Leaders Presents "True Inclusion is Revolutionary: Practicing Disability Justice"
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9am-2pm
Facilitator: Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power
Justice Leaders Presents "Socially Just Assessment & Grading"
Date: March 19, 2020; 9am-3pm
Facilitators: Amy Olmstead-Brayton, Shayla Griffin, Lois McCullen Parr
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/sAvuk3ssYTa4EzJeA
Interrupting Bias: Practice!
Date: TBD
EJATT Deep Dive
Date: TBD
Building and Sustaining Justice Squads and Equity Teams
Date: TBD
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9am-2pm
Facilitator: Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power
Justice Leaders Presents "Socially Just Assessment & Grading"
Date: March 19, 2020; 9am-3pm
Facilitators: Amy Olmstead-Brayton, Shayla Griffin, Lois McCullen Parr
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/sAvuk3ssYTa4EzJeA
Interrupting Bias: Practice!
Date: TBD
EJATT Deep Dive
Date: TBD
Building and Sustaining Justice Squads and Equity Teams
Date: TBD
*WINTER* 2019-2020 Justice Leader Cohorts
Justice Leaders: Core Course
The Core Course is open to all school and WISD personnel passionate about issues of equity, inclusion and social justice. Learning will focus on issues of privilege, oppression and inequality along lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Educators will come to understand their own social identities, biases, and prejudices; increase their knowledge about the histories and present realities of various social identity groups; and begin considering how to incorporate this knowledge and awareness into their practice. Participants must be willing to reflect deeply in ways that may challenge previously held assumptions and world views. Homework readings required to prepare for each session.
Cohort 13 (all 4 dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/t4Fw2yxEQyQxdjY59
Cohort 14 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/J23BMLqPs6kbbxqK8
Cohort 15 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/6ABsYmfwsNoyZKdq8
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Cohort 13 (all 4 dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
- SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
- SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 7, 2020
- SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/t4Fw2yxEQyQxdjY59
Cohort 14 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- SESSION 1: Thursday, February 6, 2020
- SESSION 2: Thursday, March 5, 2020
- SESSION 3: Thursday, April 9, 2020
- SESSION 4: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/J23BMLqPs6kbbxqK8
Cohort 15 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
- SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 24, 2020
- SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 28, 2020
- SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/6ABsYmfwsNoyZKdq8
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Justice Leaders: Advanced Course
The Justice Leaders Advanced Course is for educators who have **already completed the Core Course** and would like to continue learning and growing personally and professionally when it comes to issues of equity, inclusion and social justice. Participants will continue deepening their personal learning about EISJ issues and will use the Education Justice Assessment and Transformation Tool (EJATT) to enhance their practice around teaching and learning, relationships and school climate, behavior and discipline, images and celebrations, and/or policies and procedures. In addition, educators will improve their skills engaging in difficult conversations about social justice in formal and informal settings with students and colleagues.
Cohort 6 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/JD9JnxAe3T9HqGYv8
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Cohort 6 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/JD9JnxAe3T9HqGYv8
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Justice Leaders: Systems Course
The Justice Leaders: Systems Course is for educators who have *completed the Advanced Course* and want to understand and advocate for education justice beyond the classroom. How are schools funded? Why do they remain so racially and economically segregated? What would it look like to change the system? Who is advocating for such change? Are you concerned about the big picture of education justice in America? Join us!
Cohort 1 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/p5tTs8bb38DJg3yh6
Cohort 1 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
SESSION 2: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
SESSION 3: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
SESSION 4: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/p5tTs8bb38DJg3yh6
Justice Leaders: Youth/Adult Coalition
DATES:
March 25, 2020 9am-2pm
April 23, 2020 9am-2pm
May 27, 2020 9am-2pm
LOCATION: TBD
All WISD High School Programs are Invited to Participate
Designed for students of all area high schools and their supportive school adults to participate in learning and dialogue in small and large groups about key issues of diversity and social justice. Completion of the Justice Leaders: Core Course *mandatory* for adult participants. Offered in conjunction with Neutral Zone.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Justice Leaders Summer Camp 2020
Day 1: EJATT Deep Dive
TBD
Do you keep writing on your Justice Leaders evaluations “I want more tools!” “Give me more resources to take back to my school!” “What do I do next?” “Help me change my classroom and school!” “What is the EJATT? I never found it.” Do you secretly want a check-list of “How to Be A Socially Just Educator?” Then THIS is what you’ve been asking for! Join us for a deep dive into the Education Justice Assessment and Transformation Tool. Spend a day intentionally going through each section with guidance from Justice Leaders facilitators and feedback from like-minded colleagues. Our goal is for you to leave with a deeper understanding of what Social Justice looks like in schools and more clarity about where you can personally make change in your own practice.
*Prerequisite:* Completion of the Justice Leaders: Core Course
Day 2: Leading for Social Justice in Your Role, Content Area & Grade Level
TBD
Are you ready to make your lesson plans more socially just? Do you want to sit down with other people in your role to consider how to improve your practice? Do you want support from like-minded colleagues? Do you want feedback from Justice Leaders facilitators as you make changes? Then join us for Day 2 of Camp. Justice Leaders will have a day to work on creating lessons, picking literature, transforming curriculum, or shifting support practices to be more equitable, inclusive and socially just with colleagues who share their role, grade level, and/or content area. Our goal is for you to start the new year with concrete changes in hand!
*Prerequisite:* Completion of the Justice Leaders: Core Course
Note: Feel free to join us for both days or only one!
TBD
Do you keep writing on your Justice Leaders evaluations “I want more tools!” “Give me more resources to take back to my school!” “What do I do next?” “Help me change my classroom and school!” “What is the EJATT? I never found it.” Do you secretly want a check-list of “How to Be A Socially Just Educator?” Then THIS is what you’ve been asking for! Join us for a deep dive into the Education Justice Assessment and Transformation Tool. Spend a day intentionally going through each section with guidance from Justice Leaders facilitators and feedback from like-minded colleagues. Our goal is for you to leave with a deeper understanding of what Social Justice looks like in schools and more clarity about where you can personally make change in your own practice.
*Prerequisite:* Completion of the Justice Leaders: Core Course
Day 2: Leading for Social Justice in Your Role, Content Area & Grade Level
TBD
Are you ready to make your lesson plans more socially just? Do you want to sit down with other people in your role to consider how to improve your practice? Do you want support from like-minded colleagues? Do you want feedback from Justice Leaders facilitators as you make changes? Then join us for Day 2 of Camp. Justice Leaders will have a day to work on creating lessons, picking literature, transforming curriculum, or shifting support practices to be more equitable, inclusive and socially just with colleagues who share their role, grade level, and/or content area. Our goal is for you to start the new year with concrete changes in hand!
*Prerequisite:* Completion of the Justice Leaders: Core Course
Note: Feel free to join us for both days or only one!
EJATT
Education Justice Assessment & Transformation Tool:
A Vision for Classrooms, Schools & Districts
The Education Justice Assessment & Transformation Tool is designed to help educators, schools and districts assess and improve efficacy in six areas of practice related to equity, inclusion and social justice. Revised and updated in August 2019.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Transgender Task Force
Transgender Task Force, a joint project with the Coordinated School Health Network
Publications
Follow Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School on facebook for ongoing dialogue and related resources.
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