Overall Focus: This institute is designed exclusively for Equity Coordinators who are seeking to become a CSD DEIB Trainer. Participants will deepen their understanding of effective equity-focused facilitation and apply the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to lead Christina School District’s DEIB module content with confidence, clarity, and impact.

For Equity Coordinators only 

Facilitator: John Jacobs of West Ed

Day 1

• Build community and connection among facilitators

• Introduce and explore a framework for facilitating for equity and cultural responsiveness

• Explore and reflect upon facilitator identities & experiences and the ways they impact and influence facilitation

• Practice facilitating through identities and experiences

Day 2

• Build community and connection among facilitators

• Consider and explore what about participants facilitators should know, be aware of, and use to inform equity facilitation

• Practice planning for a facilitation where careful consideration is paid to the identities, roles, history, and goals, among other factors, of PD participants

Day 3

• Build community and connection among facilitators

• Become familiar with the "strategic tension” of equity facilitation

• Generate and practice using strategies to address both knowledge/theory and concrete practices and strategies

Day 4

• Build community and connection among facilitators

• Build foundational understanding of adult learning theory and the role(s) of facilitators

• Explore facilitator interventions/moves that support participant learning

• Apply knowledge of adult learning theory and facilitation moves grounded in equity