LEAD Seminar – July 23-27, 2012

a seminar at the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning

The Leading for Equity, Achievement and Diversity (LEAD) Seminar is a week for educators from all levels and all areas to practice critical reflection focused on assumptions, expectations and habits to increase student achievement

Promoting Renewal for Diversity Educators and others who lead for Equity in Education

       

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What is the LEAD Seminar?

The Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Goshen College will host this five-day residential seminar for educators from all levels and all areas in which participants are supported to critically reflect and learn more about the process of educating for transformation toward equitable schools, colleges, universities and classrooms. It is designed to connect participants to their own experiences and the experiences of others in taking leadership for educational equity.

To seriously address issues of educational equity requires that we depart from business as usual. This seminar provides the precious time and space for participants to critically reflect upon what it means to engage in equity work in their local context in a thoughtful and proactive manner.

What will I learn at the LEAD Seminar?

Participants will learn and apply the following skills aimed at equitable outcomes
for all students:

  • Assembling resources – articles, websites and other media – for your personal growth and professional work that help identify and confront inequitable practices in your school context
  • Gaining or expanding understanding of the role of emotional intelligence and the process of emotional release and healing in transforming attitudes and beliefs
  • Building community both across differences and among affinity groups
  • Developing the necessary personal awareness required to effectively teach/lead for educational equity
  • Engaging, sustaining and deepening your capacity to build relational trust and alliances across differences of all types for the purpose of identifying and eliminating inequitable practices and policies in educational settings

Consider attending this seminar if you are:

  • willing to address equity issues on a personal as well as an intellectual level
  • concerned about how race-bias, class-bias, gender-bias and other forms of bias affect the process of school change, teaching, learning and achievement
  • looking for a high leverage strategic opportunity to reflect, share and learn with colleagues about leading explicitly toward achievement and equity goals in schools, colleges and universities

What are the topics that will be covered in the LEAD Seminar?

Leading for Equity will be examined through topics that include:

  • Your Immunity-To-Change™ and how to overcome it
  • Organizational transformation in schools, colleges and universities
  • Teaching and learning
  • Building on your current understanding of historical inequities
  • Recognizing and working with issues of equity and emotional support
  • Using collaborative processes to critique strategies, plans and other operational documents

What will a participant walk away with?

As a participant, you will leave with:

  • A resource book combining resources we have provided and resources you have assembled
  • An analysis of work you have brought from your own context for its strengths and weaknesses
  • A plan for developing a network of support to sustain transformative practices
  • Increased self-awareness and knowledge about issues of systemic oppression
  • Skills to facilitate teaching and learning
  • Strategies for engaging in deeper dialogue about instructional practices, student achievement and equity

Dates, location and cost

This five-day seminar will be held July 23-27, 2012 on the campus of Goshen College, Goshen, Ind. Your host is the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL).

The all-inclusive fee for the week is $1,250. This includes lodging in suite-style accommodations on campus (shared common area and kitchenette with private bedrooms), all meals, access to computer labs and the Recreation-Fitness Center, and all seminar materials. Goshen is known regionally as a vibrant cultural and entrepreneurial center with a great downtown.  Graduate credit is available through Goshen College for an additional fee.

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For more information contact:

Ross Peterson-Veatch
CITL Dir. of Curriculum and Faculty Development
E-mail: rosspv@goshen.edu
Phone: (574) 535-7504
CITL Office: (574) 535-7800