When teachers have the opportunity to move out of a power position and embrace student empowerment, it can yield amazing results.

This is the best place to start.

My team and I investigate the systems and practices in your school or university department (maximum of 200 participants) to give you a highly customized diversity, equity, and inclusion action plan.

We’ll read through your policies, guidelines, and hold focus groups with staff to uncover unspoken rules that are holding your institution back from leading the way.

Audits are not essential, but are a great place to start, so we can recommend the best path for workshops and further action.

This is a great place to set benchmarks for personal and team growth.

The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) series is a workshop and 1-on-1 coaching for each participant that allows you to see your and your team's progression along a continuum of cross-cultural competence. Because of this, the IDI provides in-depth insights into how individuals and groups make sense of cultural differences, and also how they respond to cultural differences.

The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory® (ICS®) is an assessment and interactive workshop series that helps you understand your conflict and communication style, so you can better resolve conflicts and solve problems across cultural boundaries.

YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE

Series 1: Understanding Bias and the History of Race

This series of three workshops addresses the following big questions:

• What is implicit bias and how does it manifest in everyday interactions?

• How does the history of identity shape current societal expectations and interactions?

• How can understanding the concepts of race, privilege, and systemic racism inform how I understand my identity and others?

Get ready for some critical thinking to unpack your belief systems, influences, and background.

Goal: To help teachers explore the history of identity and how that may shape our expectations for students and colleagues.

Included workshops (each one is 2 hours):

• Understanding Implicit Bias through Self-Reflection
• What are “Normal," discrimination, prejudice, and privilege?
• What are white supremacy, race, systemic structural racism, and power?

Series 2: Application of Knowledge

This series of four workshops equip teachers and school leaders with a shared language, history, and real-world examples of how identity shapes society and how we see the world.

In breakout groups, we'll process and unpack terminology and discover how to mindfully use our words.

Equipping educators with powerful language will make it easier to lead difficult, inclusive, and engaging conversations in the classroom, with colleagues, and with the communities they serve.

Goal: To empower teachers and staff with accurate language and clear communication to tackle difficult conversations with confidence.

Workshops will look at the following terminology (each one is 2 hours):

• Critical Reflection with Peers
• What are anti-Blackness, racial battle fatigue, and colorism?
• How to be an Anti-Racist
• What are ethnicity, latinx/e, BIPOC, gender, and cis?
  

Series 3: Making School-Wide Change

This seven-part series provides your teachers and staff with the essential strategies for building stronger relationships with students and colleagues and overcoming adversity.

Together, we’ll discover how to respond to unexpected challenges, have more shared language, learn key components of critical discussion, identify personal triggers, and activate best classroom practices. 

Goal: To create radical growth through boosting productivity, authentic communication, and developing robust and transparent policies.

Included workshop (each one is 2 hours):

• What are microaggressions, microinequities, and intersectionality?
• What is the difference between diversity, equality, and equity?
• What does inclusion, belonging, liberation, allyship, and accompliceship mean?
• Best practices for collaboration, conflict, and community building
• Taking risks in a growth mindset community
• Who am I as a teacher?

Designed to foster connection and community, this weekly one-hour club uniquely gathers colleagues, regardless of their title or position, into honest and critical conversation.

By creating a space where authentic dialogue can occur, teams have the opportunity for greater productivity, empathy building, higher retention rates, and greater academic success.

This action-oriented club meets for eight weeks, focusing first on discussion and then on applying DEI concepts specifically to your school or college.

Participants leave with the tools and courage needed to create change from wherever they are.

Potential books include:

Implicit Bias in Schools: A Practitioner’s Guide by Cheryl Staats, Gina Laura Gullo, and Kelly Capatosto

Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities by James M. Thomas

Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education by Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy

Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell

Tired of navigating the complexities of inclusion and belonging with few resources and no support from leadership? Let me be your resource!

Learn more about my transformative 90-day course for DEI advocates like you. In this course, you'll:

☑️ Gain clarity and find power in your role.

☑️ Gain support and buy-in from leaders and colleagues.

☑️ Learn a data-based sustainable strategy.

☑️ Align work with your organization's needs.

Stop the confusion and burnout—feel confident in your inclusive leadership and create a workplace where everyone thrives!

Today’s leaders can no longer wish away or wait for someone else to engage their organizations about diversity and inclusion.

We have a maximum capacity of 50 people to keep the sessions intimate and interactive.

For schools and colleges with more than 50 people we can hold multiple identical workshops. 

Sometimes, when organizations register large groups and need to repeat workshops (because there are more than 50 people), we are asked to register participants in different sessions. There is an extra fee for this, but it’s no problem to do.

If I am available, yes! If not, I have a fantastic team that I have trained who can deliver these workshops with the same results. 

Only the customizable workshops can be longer or shorter than 2 hours.

Yes. I have traveled across the country and have held workshops in Ohio, California, South Carolina, to name a few. I’ve also held plenty on Zoom.

It’s important to have a real mix of all staff in each workshop - it’s important not to separate educators based on their position in the organization. Mixing up hierarchy is key.

The three series of workshops have been designed to go through consecutively.

Series 1 is the place to start so you can start with Understanding Implicit Bias through Self-Reflection. Then you can work through series 2 to build up your language toolkit, and finally series 3 which is where we look at systems, practices, and power.

While our focus is educators, we can customize learning experiences for students so please get in touch.

Yes, absolutely. Just get in touch and we can have a chat to put together a proposal.

Dr. Crum's presentation was something our district has needed for a long time!