Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools

Develop the skills and historical understanding to lead courageous conversations about race, power, and equity in your school community. 

Overview

Leading inclusive schools, where all students are afforded opportunities to achieve, requires an understanding of the intersections of race, power, and privilege and calls for leaders who have the courage and capacity to engage in thoughtful conversation and action in their school communities.

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Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools, a program of The Principals’ Center, offers a historical and cultural context for understanding how inequality plays out in schools and provides educators with the skills and confidence to lead more excellent, equitable schools. Participants will learn to recognize structures that perpetuate inequality, address assumptions about how people learn, and create opportunities for more children to succeed.

Program Details

In this four-day institute, you will gather with educators from across the country to explore the role of racism in creating and sustaining educational inequity. You will investigate the importance of personal and group accountability in addressing inequity, and practices for increasing community engagement and promoting open dialogue. You will return home ready to implement concrete strategies for building a more inclusive school community where all children can achieve at high levels.

Objectives

• Investigate the many causes of individual, institutional, and systemic racial inequality
• Deepen your understanding of why discussions of race, equity, and leadership matter
• Explore the variety of changes needed to create a more inclusive future
• Identify concrete strategies for building inclusive institutions and build your toolkit to teach, model, and practice inclusion

Who Should Attend

• K-12 educators interested in deepening their understanding of the intersections of race, power, and privilege in our society and schools
• School-level teams composed of principals, assistant principals, and educators in other leadership roles
• Teams composed of school and district leaders
• State-level school administrators

Fees & Policies

Participants of the Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML): $2,375 per person

Full tuition is due by the indicated payment deadline, which you may find above or on the program’s community page. While a purchase order confirms enrollment, full payment is still required by the payment deadline. Please note that failure to pay by the payment deadline will result in your withdrawal from the program. Click here for more information on payment, refund, and withdrawal policies.

Tuition includes all instructional materials required for participation in the program. The Harvard Graduate School of Education reserves the right to change faculty or cancel programs at its discretion. The school is not responsible for any planning expenses incurred.