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 Core Course, an in-depth professional learning series for educators passionate about issues of equity, inclusion and social justice. In addition, we offered the "How To" series that gave educators practical tools for making their classrooms more inclusive.
This year, 2018-19, we will continue existing supports, like the Diversity Forum, Diversity Council Support for high school teams, and the Justice Leaders Core and Advanced Courses, and expand our professional development options to include the Justice Leaders Trainers Course, Justice Leaders for WISD Cabinet, and the Justice League which will meet bi-monthly afters school to provide ongoing support to those educators who have completed the Advanced Course.
Email Dr. Shayla Griffin
This year, 2018-19, we will continue existing supports, like the Diversity Forum, Diversity Council Support for high school teams, and the Justice Leaders Core and Advanced Courses, and expand our professional development options to include the Justice Leaders Trainers Course, Justice Leaders for WISD Cabinet, and the Justice League which will meet bi-monthly afters school to provide ongoing support to those educators who have completed the Advanced Course.
Email Dr. Shayla Griffin
Justice Leaders Summer Camp 2019
Day 1: EJATT Deep Dive
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 9am-3pm
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
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9am-3pm
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!
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/98E6k9q8z3eTJ8yWA
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 9am-3pm
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
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9am-3pm
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!
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/98E6k9q8z3eTJ8yWA
*FALL* 2019-2020 OFFERINGS
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 11 (all 4 dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJq6l9Bp-mBCfNIJlgz8hxvCramORq6fDAGuOi4SqALe4F_w/viewform?usp=sf_link
Cohort 12 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTljx9B6qW80KF0UJbTjeG1K36ycU9VxyBcREnRCWpLfn4qQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Cohort 11 (all 4 dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- Tuesday, September 24, 2019
- Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- Tuesday, November 19, 2019
- Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJq6l9Bp-mBCfNIJlgz8hxvCramORq6fDAGuOi4SqALe4F_w/viewform?usp=sf_link
Cohort 12 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- Tuesday, October 1, 2019
- Tuesday, October 29, 2019
- Tuesday, December 3, 2019
- Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTljx9B6qW80KF0UJbTjeG1K36ycU9VxyBcREnRCWpLfn4qQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
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 5 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7BOxngcPP5BfeAp1dYigJYlviSV8KMcE5671cq1A3m-5ACA/viewform?usp=sf_link
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Cohort 5 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- Tuesday, October 8, 2019
- Tuesday, November 5, 2019
- Tuesday, December 10, 2019
- Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7BOxngcPP5BfeAp1dYigJYlviSV8KMcE5671cq1A3m-5ACA/viewform?usp=sf_link
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Justice Leaders: Facilitation Practicum
The Facilitation Practicum is for educators who have *completed the Trainers Course* and would like to continue practicing *facilitating* conversations about issues of equity, inclusion and social justice. Participants will get the opportunity to design agendas and lead varying lengths of content in front of their colleagues. [Note: Especially for people who were interested in participating in the Justice Leaders Internship which will NOT be offered this Fall].
Cohort 1 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNvPGwBgTR2PCzn-AWPtzD6th1KJaKaFysMf5_b9foJsvTkA/viewform?usp=sf_link
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Cohort 1 (all dates required, teams of 2-4 highly recommended)
9:00am - 3:00pm, Washtenaw Intermediate School District
- Tuesday, October 15, 2019
- Tuesday, November 12, 2019
- Tuesday, December 17, 2019
- Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNvPGwBgTR2PCzn-AWPtzD6th1KJaKaFysMf5_b9foJsvTkA/viewform?usp=sf_link
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
7th Annual WISD Youth Diversity Forum
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2018 9am-2pm
LOCATION: Washtenaw ISD
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. Offered in conjunction with Neutral Zone.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
Student Diversity Councils
Designed for high school teams ready to grow and sustain teams of students working on issues of diversity in their schools. Offered in conjunction with Neutral Zone.
For more information please contact Dr. Shayla Griffin.
The Education Justice Assessment & Transformation Tool is designed to help schools assess and improve their efficacy in six areas of practice related to equity, inclusion and social justice. Revised and updated in August of 2016.
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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