Equity Leaders Cohort
We use thissystem-wide capacity builder to enhance equity literacy. Representative(s) from each school/ department participate in training-of-trainers sessions to provide professional development to their sites.
Equity leaders have learned about an range of topics including:
- Understanding Privilege
- Oppression and Implicit Bias
- Systemic Racism
- Colonization and Maine’s Indigenous History
- Culturally responsive teaching
- Cross-difference communication
- The Belief Gap: Poverty
- Gender
- Immigration, Structural Oppression
- Educators of Color Insights Report, Difficult Conversations
- Supporting the LGBTQ+ PPS Community and Restorative Approaches
- Understanding and Supporting Students Identified for Special Education Services