Equity Leaders Cohort
PPS’s system-wide capacity builder to enhance equity literacy. Representative(s) from each school/ department participate in training-of-trainers sessions to then provide professional development to their school/department. Facilitation design and support from Center for Education Equity (CEE) at the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium the region 1 Equity Assistance Center identified by the US Department of Education.
Equity leaders have learned about an range of topics including:
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Understanding Privilege
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Oppression and Implicit Bias
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Systemic Racism
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Colonization and Maine’s Indiginous History
- Culturally responsive teaching
- Cross-difference communication
- The Belief Gap: Poverty
- Gender
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Immigration, Structural Oppression
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Educators of Color Insights Report, Difficult Conversations
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Supporting the LGBTQ+ PPS Community and Restorative Approaches