Increase engagement and equity in your programs and classrooms through equity-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive instructional strategies.
Whether you are a librarian or classroom teacher, and whether you primarily serve youth, adults, or both, join us and learn how to center equity in education!
Course Overview: Equity-Centered Instruction: Strategies for the Library or Classroom
Learn innovative and equity-centered instructional strategies for engaging learners, teaching sensitive topics, and handling censorship. Equity-centered instruction is not just about the books or materials you teach, it’s about how you teach them. This course will help you reimagine how you approach instruction and ensure you are equipped with tools for trauma-informed facilitation, equity-based engagement practices, teaching sensitive topics, building and leveraging dynamic relationships between librarians and educators, and more!
After you attend this interactive online course and workshop, you’ll be able to:
Proactively apply what you have learned about race/equity to your daily practice in the library/classroom
Teach sensitive topics in your library/classroom with confidence, sensitivity, and cultural humility
Advocate for shifting policies, mindsets, and culture within your library/classroom
Help build productive relationships with students, peers, parents, and your community
Engage in vigorous, culturally responsive teaching and facilitation
Incorporate trauma-informed, healing-centered practices into your teaching and facilitation
Use data acquired from this course to effectively impact change within your learning community
Featured Speakers
Teaching Sensitive Topics Pt. 1: Tools and Strategies led by: Donna Gray
Teaching Sensitive Topics Pt. 2: Digging Deeper led by: Matthew R. Kay
Culturally Responsive Facilitation: Foundations and Practicesled by: Shamika J. Simpson
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