Meeting my Justice Angel!
Too often there is a gulf between our personal and professional identities. This two-ness prevents us from brining our full consciousness to the why, how, and for who we do our work. This course is part of the Critical Cultural Consciousness series facilitated by Dr. Michelle Cromwell of The Cromwell Group LLC. It is designed for educational professionals who want to begin the journey of racial equity and justice and who have the goal of going beyond awareness to engage in a sensitivity that comes from critical inquiry of themselves, the systems that inform their realities and who want to become educator-activists.
We build our equity-centeredness core.
Sometimes the biggest barrier to racial equity and justice in schools is less related to the lack of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" efforts, but rather the tendency for educators and schools to embrace the sorts of "racial equity" initiatives that pose no threat to racism. So, what do we do when we realize that we only have a surface approach to addressing inequity, that celebrating diversity is not enough, that cultural awareness is not enough, that many teachers have good intentions and their well-intentioned actions are not enough, that dialogue and reading groups are not enough?