White Educators, (Mostly) White Schools, and Racial Justice
Date:
January 23, 2025 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Price:
Instructor(s):
T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd
Event Type:
Virtual
Professional Learning Hours:
12
Intended Audience:
K-12 educators, teacher leaders, principals, deans, counselors, behavior interventionists, restorative justice coordinators, and district SEL and/or DEI staff. Participants can attend on their own, although teams are encouraged to participate together.
Participants must attend both dates:
- January 23, 2025
- February 13, 2025
“There is nothing you can do for me. There is nothing you can do for Negroes. It must be done for you!” – James Baldwin, author and activist, to a mostly white audience.
It is important that white educators in 2025 continue to center racial justice efforts in our work. How can we strategically allocate resources to this work? What do these efforts look like in different settings? How can we see racial justice work as being as much about us as about others?
In this series, we will consider how white identity intersects with white school leaders’ efforts to advance racial justice school reform. We will discuss the importance of redistributing important resources that educators control, including: the time dedicated to adult/student learning, the topics adults and students learn about, and the processes and pedagogies we use.
Whether you identify as a white school educator or someone who works in collaboration with white educators, you will leave the workshop with suggestions for concrete actions to continue to center and advance racial justice in our work.
Participants will:
- Consider how our own identity informs racial justice and school reform work.
- Identify how to redistribute resources to create a more democratic community.
- Discover resources for further learning and action.