Start the School Year Strong! 1. Take my four-part course. This workshop provides step by step how to foster an antiracist culture in your school. 2. Ask about personalized leadership coaching sessions! 3. Purchase Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School, co-written with Kathy Lopes. This book will give you great tips on leading antiracist work. Interested
Interested in an excellent activator for the beginning of the school year? This Social Identity Activity can be used with students during the first weeks of school or during a beginning-of-the-year faculty meeting. Help your community learn more about each other
Student art can change a community. This Spring, we celebrated our Main St. Project after seven years of hard work on this student-created public art. In Change The Narrative, we use this story as an example of Strategic Leadership. I am so proud of our students for using this project to change our culture for
Dealing with setbacks is inevitable in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and social justice leadership. How we respond to these challenges determines the progress of our DEI work within our organizations. The recent Supreme Court Cases setback DEI initiatives and Civil Rights protections. As predicted, the Supreme Court upended Affirmative Action university programs. This decision not
Coalition Building is perhaps the most important step that you should be thinking about right now in building your DEI team. In Change the Narrative: Fostering an Antiracist Culture in Your School and the companion course Kathy Lopes and I discuss coalition building as an important part of strategic thinking. As we planned our next “Change the Narrative” videos,
Black History Month has long been viewed as an opportunity to insert Black history into an American history curriculum that is largely dominated by the narrative of White Americans. This view limits our understanding that the true scope of American history is diverse and multifaceted. Despite recent attempts to ban Black History, the truth is
I’ve been thinking a lot about the role we have as leaders to help our organizations heal and grow after hate incidents. In the past, I’ve shared steps to respond to a hate incident regardless of whether it happens in your school or organization or is a national incident. These steps focus on the day
Bring Your Social Justice Leadership to the Next Level! 1. Take my four-part course. This workshop teaches how to foster an antiracist culture in your school. 2. Purchase Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School, co-written with Kathy Lopes. This book will give you great tips on leading antiracist work. Interested in purchasing a
In this new episode of Change the Narrative, Kathy and I talk about how to start the school year off strong with DEI work. We discuss: How to be the energizer. Developing a Communication Strategy Why it’s important to focus on stretching people, even when they are resistant. Why it’s important to continue to
In this new episode of Change the Narrative, Kathy and I talk about how to empower students in Social Justice work. We discuss: How to raise student voices with faculty. How to empower students in effecting change in their school. What diversity should mean when engaging with diverse student groups. Here are a few ways to