Embracing Equity Blog - Insights on Diversity and Inclusion

Leading for Equity: The Embracing Equity Leadership Residency

I invite you to join the inaugural Embracing Equity Leadership Residence! By centering diversity, equity, inclusion and racial justice, educational leaders have the opportunity to develop an organizational vision that guides the systemic change required to foster educational equity and create learning environments in which all children thrive.

Climate Change and Youth

I recently went to the Global Climate Strike rally in San Francisco. I was pretty excited about this because, like many activists of my generation, I feel that youth involvement is key in any hopes of obtaining a meaningful change in regards to humanity’s future.

Speaking for Ourselves Teaching Guide

This lesson plan is an offering to the Speaking for Ourselves community, for K-12 educators & beyond who want to decolonize their classrooms by honoring the voices and experiences of the global majority. These stories speak to the beauty and resiliency of Black, Indigenous, Asian Pacific Islander and Latinx people.

It's That Time Again: Back to School Resources

Embracing Equity seeks to pass on the wisdom and foresight that was handed down to us over the years from the educators, children, families, and communities who have made us stronger and more critically aware practitioners.

Embracing Equity in the Wake of Police Brutality

Amelia Allen Sherwood is an Embracing Equity graduate of both the workshop and the online cohort, living in New Haven, Ct. She is the Dean of Social Emotional Learning at Elm City Montessori School and is a racial justice organizer. This is a reflection about the cohort and her action project.

Ode to White Liberals

Austin, Texas is the land of the White Moderate. They who “prefer a negative peace...and the absence of tension” as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said. They are liberal. They are progressive. They are “good” White people. And so I wrote this poem, “Ode to White Liberals” for you, Austin, Texas. Global Majority, I want you to know that it’s ok to refuse to be the bridge for White moderates.

Finding Your Person: Why We Need Buddies in Embracing Equity

I believe that identifying an “Embracing Equity Buddy” in my life has been the difference maker that has allowed the work of disrupting dominant white supremacy culture to be a sustainable practice.

Honor Native Land

Land acknowledgements need to happen because only then will we begin to provide a more truthful and just learning about Indigenous people of this land; our languages, our histories, our existence, our children. Land acknowledgements are a crucial step toward the United States practicing truth and reconciliation.

Where Are You Really From?

What does it look like to have conversations about race that acknowledge and center the fact that the U.S. was built on a foundation of genocide, antiblackness, and white supremacy, and find ways to validate and incorporate the experiences of those of us who occupy the many spaces between the categories around which we have oriented our research, our vocabulary, our world?

Tearing Out My Deeply Rooted Defects

Searching for what it means to be a white person doing the work of racial justice is an ongoing (and lifelong) journey, this poem was birthed.

Reimagining Schools as Spaces for Radical Healing

By understanding the causes, effects, and restorative responses to toxic and traumatic stress, we adults have not only the ability but the obligation to buffer its long-term impact on the children in our lives.

Embracing an Equitable Sliding Scale

Part 1: 3 minute read If you identify as being poor, this is for you. Part 2: 4 minute read If you identity as someone committed to economic justice, this is for you. “We invite each person to take inventory of their financial resources and look deeper at their levels of privilege or systemic barriers.

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