Recorded Webinars
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Designing Agendas for Equity Work
Learn to create meeting spaces that honor both the intellectual and emotional dimensions of equity work. Discover how thoughtful design can transform standard meetings into meaningful collaborative experiences where participants feel safe to engage, challenge, and grow together.
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Empathy Listening Strategies
Move beyond problem-solving to truly understand the stories and experiences of those most impacted by systemic inequities. Learn how authentic, curiosity-driven listening builds trust and surfaces crucial insights that can guide meaningful organizational change.
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Freedom Dreaming Against the Odds: Finding Freedom in Constraints
In order to make possible the world we deserve, where each of us can thrive and experience a sense of belonging, we must be bold enough to dream. Learn how understanding constraints can actually enhance our capacity to imagine and build more equitable futures. Explore how complexity thinking can help leaders maintain hope while taking practical steps toward meaningful transformation.
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Equity 101: Starting the Equity Conversation
The word “equity” is everywhere – but what does it really mean? What if it means something different to me, to my colleagues, and to my community? Schools, districts and organizations often name equity goals. But in order to set — let alone reach — equity goals, you need to create conditions for people to make sense of what equity means, why it’s important, and how to approach it together.
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Focal Students: Equity in the Classroom
Transform your classroom equity practices through a focal student approach. Learn how to build meaningful partnerships with focal students to understand their learning needs deeply, then scale those insights to benefit all learners.
Based in the work of Zaretta Hammond (Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain) the Learning Partnership framework helps educators bridge identity differences, build trust, and accelerate learning.
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Healing: An Equity Leadership Practice
Transforming unjust systems requires co-creating cultures founded on care, compassion and collective wellbeing. We must prioritize individual, interpersonal, and collective healing as we work towards transformation and liberation. Healing practices help leaders envision and manifest future systems rooted in love and justice.
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Implicit Bias, Structural Racialization, and Equity
Move beyond awareness to action in addressing implicit bias and systemic inequity. This webinar explores how historical patterns and institutional practices perpetuate disparities despite good intentions. Learn to recognize bias in organizational systems, understand its roots in structural racism, and develop concrete strategies to create more equitable practices at all levels - from interpersonal interactions to institutional policies.
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Liberatory Design Mindsets
In order to achieve liberatory outcomes we must not only identify what’s not working in our systems, but also learn to think and be together in new ways. Liberatory Design mindsets support us to transform our thinking and ways of being as individuals and in community. This webinar will introduce you to the National Equity Project’s approach to Liberatory Design, focusing on how liberatory design mindsets can support you to explore and embody new ways of leading in your individual and collective work.
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Reclaiming the Narrative for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Schools
Despite ongoing debates, research shows that student-centered and culturally responsive approaches create more engaging, effective learning environments where all students can succeed. Explore how we can mobilize communities to protect and advance these evidence-based practices, ensuring every student has the support and opportunities they need to thrive.
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Taking A Sacred Pause: An Equity Leadership Practice
Equity leadership can feel urgent; calls to action and desires to create more equitable and just experiences can push us to respond quickly or engage in rapid response solutions. We need to pause in order to not jump to obvious but insufficient solutions, but instead keep the problem space open, and recognize and manage the fear and anxiety of living in our complex and uncertain world.