Teaching for Equity and Justice Summer Institute

Across the country, educators and administrators recognize the need to create learning environments where all students—regardless of background—feel seen, heard, and valued, and where they are supported in reaching their full potential. Facing History & Ourselves has designed a professional development model to help educators foster classrooms that affirm all students’ identities and equip them with the skills to think critically, express their voices, and actively engage in their learning.

Our vision is to support educators and school leaders both individually and collectively as they move to more equitable practices that enable all students to find their voice and civic agency, become critical thinkers, and be fully engaged in their education. During this three-day online experience, educators will examine moments in the history of American education and its current legacies of inequity, gaining in the process the tools necessary to mitigate against these barriers to equity.

During this online institute, participants will:

• Explore the history of race, schooling, and academic identity to better understand the root causes of present-day educational inequities.
• Engage with contemporary scholarship and gain tools to address these historical legacies in your school context.

Taking place over three days, this institute offers a real-time, interactive online classroom where participants will connect in facilitated whole- and small-group sessions.