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Here’s your opportunity to hear more from founders Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio Colwell about Youth Equity Stewardship (YES!), a sustainable, inter-generational, creative facilitation process for youth and adults that enables learning communities to enthusiastically engage and advocate for culturally responsive teaching and leading practices. YES! is rooted in arts-based methods that aim to elevate youth vision and passion to the forefront of policy and progress for an evolving twenty-first century school system. They will demonstrate how the process amplifies student partnership and supports young people in understanding their personal journey and social accountability through a "stewardship" lens that creates a living example of commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Discover strategies from Gary Howard, equity consultant and author of We Can't Lead Where We Won't Go, that address today's educational inequities and drive reform. 

Jessica and John Hannigan, authors of Don't Suspend Me!, explain why suspensions don't work and how they significantly increase the likelihood of dropout for our most at-risk students.  

Gain a greater understanding from Trudy Arriaga, author of Opening Doors, of culturally proficient practices that open doors for all students. 

Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a webinar to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan.

In this webinar, author Justin Cohen is joined by two educators featured in the book along with Derek Mitchell, the CEO of Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit organization that supported educators in this work. Presenters share: 

• First-hand experience with an equity-focused approach to school transformation that builds the capacity of educators to drive change
• A proven, results-oriented cycle of inquiry for sustainable school improvement
• The need for educators to understand their local history, identities, and biases for successful school improvement

In this webinar, Lee Ann facilitates thinking around Universal Design for Learning as a means to bring equity in learning experiences and outcomes for a broad range of student variability.