C01 Q & A with Tim Wise

Tim Wise is among the most prominent and respected antiracist writers and educators in the U.S. and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate, and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states and on over 400 college campuses. He has trained teachers as well as corporate, government, media, and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling institutional racism, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. A collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male, will be published in the fall of 2008.Wise has contributed essays to twenty books, and is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows worldwide to discuss race and racism.

Strand: Equity Leadership

C02 Facing Race Together: Sharing the Power of Regional Collaboration

Six school districts, the Ohio Department of Education, and two universities have come together to create conditions to transform education in southwest Ohio. Learn how the Consortium on Racial Equity in K-12 Education has been tilling the ground and planting the seeds of anti-racism--and help them to see how much more they have to do. Explore the strengths and challenges of cross-district and cross-sector collaboration. Generate together the power and passion needed to exercise anti-racist leadership.

Steve Price, Superintendent, Middletown City School District, Middletown, OH; Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, West Wind Education Policy, Inc. Iowa City, IA; Glenn Singleton, President, Pacific Educational Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

Strand: Equity Leadership

C03 Lessons in Courage--Leading the Change for Equity

Engage with members of the District Equity Leadership Team from Eden Prairie Schools as we share key lessons in developing and implementing a framework for change. Learn how change means shifting the status quo of racial predictability and disparity as to which students achieve academic success in our schools, to a culture where all students achieve to their fullest potential. Learn how the team uses data, resources, courage, guided conversations on race, core beliefs, and professional development to inspire a new path toward a school system that is free of institutional racism, bias, and favoritism.

Melissa Krull, Superintendent; Nanette Missaghi, Integration Program Coordinator; Kamarrie Davis Gooding, Director of Testing and Assessment; Derrick Agate, Transportation Director; and Angie Roesner, High School Math Teacher; Eden Prairie Public Schools, Eden Prairie, MN.

Strand: Equity Leadership

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C05 Passion, Practice and Persistence: Doing Whatever It Takes to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Our School Systems

Systemic transformational change will only come about when educators examine their individual and collective roles in perpetuating racial educational disparities and muster sufficient passion, practice and persistence to do whatever it takes to achieve educational equity! Learn how to exercise passion and engage in the design and delivery of innovative practice. Develop the will, skill, knowledge and capacity to persist toward achieving equity at all levels of the system--from the district office to the classroom and throughout the community.

Cynthia Hays, Director of Leadership, Organizational and Strategic Development, Pacific Educational Group, San Francisco, CA

Strand: Equity Leadership

C06 Big Gap, Big Ideas, Big Plans for a Big District

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), the nation's 16^th largest district, is using Courageous Conversation to initiate and deepen meaningful dialogue and collaborative problem solving to move toward racial equity. Learn how the Diversity Training and Development Team is building the will, skill, knowledge, and capacity of staff to eliminate racial disparity and predictability in education through on-going, job embedded, and data-driven professional development that is centered on helping staff understand the depth and complexity of systemic racism and how it impacts learning and teaching.

Donna Graves, Supervisor; and Angela Burrell, Nora Nasser, and Bryan Avila, Instructional Specialists, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD

Strand: Anti-Racist Learning and Teaching

C07 Personal History of Otherness/Equity In Action

In order for teachers to begin to approach the competency necessary to promote culturally responsive curriculum, they must examine who they are in terms of the structures of subordination and domination in our culture (race, gender, SES, age, religion, sexual orientation, language, and ability). Explore how our relationship to these structures helps construct our own identities. Engage in a process of self-evaluation around dominant and subordinate structures in American society, then participate in a collaborative activity to examine how our identity affects the students we teach.

Jeffery A. Heil, Adjunct Professor, Cal State University, San Marcos, CA

Strand: Anti-Racist Learning and Teaching

C08 How to Teach Biracial and Multiracial Students: Racial Literacy for Today's Classroom

What are you? Biracial and multiracial students often face this question. Examine the "nonbelonging" these students face, and how it impacts their achievement. Learn about the research on biracial and multiracial students and how that research can inform classroom practice. Share stories and build a community of learners dedicated to understanding and supporting biracial and multiracial students.

Bonnie M. Davis, A4Achievement Consulting, Laguna Beach, CA and Dorothy Kelly, Director of Student Services/Assistant Principal, Wydown Middle School, Clayton, MO.

Strand: Anti-Racist Learning and Teaching