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Professional Learning and Talent

A systems map of generational trauma in the rural South
Rural Opportunity Schools

Our lifetime vision is a system that builds the capacity of rural, majority-black, communities to support people's healing from adversity to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination.

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ATDLE
ATDLE

The ATDLE team provides focused and relevant professional training opportunities for new and existing programs! Our commitment to excellence in education through second and third language education is unwavering. We believe strongly in quality implementation and the full implementation of research-based practices. We lead the charge by utilizing the amazing expertise of some of the most experienced programmatic experts in TWBI/DL and know that we can be of great service to teachers, administrators and program development leads wanting to start their programs or improve their practice!

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Arts and Healing Programs
Aliento

Aliento serves undocumented, DACA, and mixed immigration status families to transform trauma into hope and action. We are youth-led and directly impacted people and allies who are invested in the well-being, emotional healing, and leadership development of those impacted by the inequities of lacking an immigration status.

We offer art & healing workshops for those who have been impacted by deportation, detention, or the threat of family separation.

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Ashé Preparatory Academy
Ashé Preparatory Academy

Ashé Preparatory Academy’s mission is to cultivate the genius of a diverse population of students and prepare them to excel in high school, college, and career and to serve as leaders in and for their communities.

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Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents Leadership Academies
Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents

Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents offers academies for superintendents and principals To provide leadership at the national level that assures every school in America effectively serves the educational needs of all students with an emphasis on Latin/o/a/x youth by building capacity, promoting best practices, and transforming educational institutions

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Bio Feedback Breathing Program
Rural opportunity institute

Biofeedback breathing devices have been used for many decades by elite performers (from NASA, Olympic Athletes, US Military) to increase the health of participants' nervous systems. Rural Opportunity Institute has been supporting community organizations and institutions to use biofeedback breathing devices so individuals can track the state of their nervous system to help cope with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress, build resilience and support healthy regulation and balance of the nervous system through breathing.

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Black Educator Advocates Network
Innovate Public Schools

Innovate Public Schools is a nonprofit organization working to make sure that all students in the Bay Area and Los Angeles -- especially low-income students and students of color -- receive a world-class public education that prepares them for success in college, careers and beyond. We’re building a movement of families, educators, and business and elected leaders who together will make this vision a reality. IPS builds the capacity of parents and educators to innovate and act together to create world-class public schools, and publishes easy-to-understand school quality data and research that highlights both problems and solutions. The Black Educator Advocates Network will build a community of exemplar Black educators focused on advancing Black student achievement.

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Black Indigenous Person Of Color Mental Health Resources
The Mental Health Coalition

The Mental Health Coalition is dedicated to addressing the mental health needs of the BIPOC community, and we know that society’s work is far from over in creating culturally informed, quality mental health equity for all. Because of longstanding systemic injustice, there are many barriers that limit access to high-quality, culturally-informed mental health care for BIPOC communities. This means that it is crucial to highlight the spaces that do exist that address racism-based stress and trauma, while affirming the countless strengths of BIPOC communities.

Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan
Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan

BMEA partners with educational agencies at the local, state and national level to advocate for the support of recruiting black men into education, retaining black male educators, and developing leaders to improve the education of urban youth. BMEA is a group of practitioners invested in the dismantling of institutional impediments to diversity in the educational profession.​

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Black Teacher Collaborative
Black Teacher Collaborative

Black Teacher Collaborative, a social entrepreneurship venture, provides an opportunity to engage in development of strategies and tools that build the mindsets, skills, and knowledge needed to actualize a new model for Black teacher impact and efficacy.

Black Teacher Project
Black Teacher Project

The Black Teacher Project’s mission is to sustain and develop Black teachers to lead and reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning. Our vision is that every student will benefit from the diversity, excellence, and leadership of an empowered Black teaching force.

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BlackPrint Education Consulting
The Black Print Inc.

BlackPrint Education Consulting provides professional development, coaching, and audits necessary to produce educational equity and excellence for historically marginalized student populations.

Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED)
Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED)

BranchED provides training, technical assistance, and coaching support to Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to maximize the quality of their educator preparation programs.

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Camelback Ventures
Camelback Ventures

Camelback Ventures catalyzes gap closing, social ventures led by underrepresented entrepreneurs, particularly people of color.

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Cares for Learning
The Oakland Literacy Coalition

At CARES for Learning, our mission is to make sure every child can read fluently by third grade, with mastery in the proven five essential components to reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Center For Black Educator Development
The Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium

The Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium is a grassroots organization of PK-12, higher education, non-profit, and government leaders striving to increase the number of teachers of color as well as culturally-responsive and sustaining educators in Pennsylvania. Center For Black Educator Development addresses educational inequities to improve academic and social outcomes for all students through increased teacher diversity. Having at least one Black teacher early on reduces a Black student’s likelihood of dropping out of school by up to 39%.

Community Equity Partners
Community Equity Partners

Community Equity Partners' (CEP) goal is to retain and grow senior leaders of color within education by disrupting the dominant and exclusive organizational culture through cross-racial relationships and coaching.

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Continuum on being an anti-racist organization
Crossroads Ministry of Chicago

One example of a continuum on becoming an anti-racist organization

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Disruptive Partners
Disruptive Partners

What happens when Pahara & EDLOC meet historically ignored leaders of color? You get Disruptive Partners. Disruptive Partners (DP) is a Black-owned leadership development firm, committed to developing an exponential number of high-impact leaders at the local level. We identify leaders of color that bring a wide range of diverse talents, skills, and lived experiences critical to influencing real change within the Black community. As your premier executive talent pipeline for racially diverse communities, we create sustainable impact by activating, learning from, and leveraging the untapped power in our communities. We are your Pahara & EDLOC for “The Hood, Which Is My Hood!”

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Diversity Talks
Diversity Talks

Diversity Talks provides K-12 school districts, higher education institutions, community based organizations, and corporations with student-led professional development grounded in the cultural competencies of diversity, equity and inclusion to increase academic performance and achievement.

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Diversity in Leadership Institute
Diversity in Leadership Institute

The Diversity in Leadership Institute identifies, cultivates, and activates Black and Latinx leaders and allies to serve as change agents, to close the achievement and opportunity gaps for children of color, through growing talent pipelines for excellent school leadership and advocacy. The DILI vision is to build and accelerate strong school leaders and advocates of color, to create equitable K-12 school systems in the state of California, ultimately improving the academic, social and emotional well-being for youth of color.

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Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC)
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC)

Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization dedicated to elevating the leadership, voices and influence of people of color in education, and to leading more inclusive efforts to improve education.

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Embracing Equity
Embracing Equity

Embracing Equity offers workshops, learning spaces online and in-person, resources, ABAR curriculum, and tools to support current and future educators in doing anti-racist and anti-biased worth with students and colleagues.

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Freedom Fellows Institute
Freedom Fellows Institute

The Freedom Fellows Institute identifies, develops, and supports talented leaders of color to found high-quality charter schools. With one full year of leadership development, the Institute supports strong entrepreneurial educators through months 0-12 of their founding journey. ​

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He is Me Institute
He is Me Institute

He is Me Institute (HIMI) empowers Black men to obtain and retain careers in STEAM education. HIMI teaching fellows are Black men in college who teach at summer programs for middle school boys of color. ​

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Invest in educator wellness
NonProfit Wellness

Nonprofit Wellness combines energy, experience, science, art, and a sense of humor through Team-Care activities that are equal parts fun, engaging, and instructive, both virtual and in person. (We're based in DC, FYI.) From an hour at a retreat to a multi-week series culminating in a lasting Wellness Committee, our programs are custom-made to meet your big-hearted and exhausted employees where they are, build camaraderie through vulnerability, and establish a space and priority for discussing and supporting well-being at work.


Kingmakers of Oakland
Kingmakers of Oakland

KOO is focused on extending the African American Male Achievement Initiative’s principles, curriculum, and successful strategies beyond Oakland schools to districts and other institutions across the country that are struggling to support African American male students and leaders.

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Latinos For Education
Latinos For Education

Latinos for Education (L4E) believes that Latino leaders should be at the forefront of creating an equitable education for Latino students.

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Latinx Education Collaborative
Latinx Education Collaborative

The Latinx Education Collaborative works to increase and retain the number of quality Latinx education professionals in K-12.​

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MindWorks Collaborative
MindWorks Collaborative

MindWorks Collaborative will attract, connect, develop, and sustain a pipeline of Black and Latino teachers and related service providers to dramatically improve educational options and outcomes for students with disabilities.

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Native Educator Initiative
National Indian Education Association

The National Indian Education Association (NIEA), the largest and oldest Native education organization in the nation, was formed with the goal of supporting schools and educational systems in improving the outcomes of Native students. In response to the national teacher shortage, and specifically the Native teacher shortage, NIEA launched the National Educator Initiative which addresses five critical areas for addressing teacher shortages and recruiting Native teachers to Native-serving schools.​

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Profound Gentlemen
Profound Gentlemen

Building communities of male educators of color around the country to impact the education of boys of color across the country

Resources for resilience
Resources for Resilience

The mission at Resources for Resilience is to share practical tools to build up and support everyone’s resilience. Offering trauma-informed and resiliency-focused programs to individuals, organizations, and entire communities. RFR was formed in response to the public health crisis of adverse childhood experiences and seeks to address the ongoing stress that many of us face every day. The easy-to-use strategies that we offer are intended for anyone to use as we work to prevent future adversity and help people stay healthy and connected during tough times believing that everyone has the ability to deepen their resilience and experience better days.

Restorative Justice as a health Equity resource
The Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality

The Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality works with policymakers, researchers, advocates, and youth to develop effective policies and practices that alleviate poverty and inequality in the United States. We author and widely disseminate in-depth reports, conduct research, host conferences, and lead national youth-centered coalitions and working groups. Our work analyzes challenges and proposes solutions to help youth thrive, reaching a national audience through a broad dissemination strategy resourced at the law school.

Stages of Racial Identity Development
Interaction Institute for Social Change

The attached charts summarize several frameworks that have been developed to describe stages of racial and ethnic identity development. Found mostly in psychology and therapy literature, taking into account factors such as race, gender and sexuality. Some of the frameworks are used to help therapists understand their patients more fully. The models also have broader applications for understanding how individuals function in community, family and organizational settings.

Teach in Native Schools
National Indian Education Association

Job board for indigenous educators to be able to post their resumes, browse job listings, and communicate with the Indigenous community to assure diversity in education

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Teacher Professional Development
Virtuoso

Virtuoso Education Consulting LLC is the management consulting firm that business leaders across many sectors come to when they are seeking outsourcing services and sustainable results. Our company supports organizational change through analysis of existing organizational structures, development of action plans for improvement , and  training stakeholders in the skills needed to accomplish desired outcomes. We're passionate about always doing the best thing for our clients, our people, and our communities, even when it isn't easy.

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The AASA Leadership Network
The School Superintendents association

The AASA Leadership Network drives superintendent success, innovation and growth, shaping the future of public education while preparing students for what’s next. The are the largest, most diverse network of superintendents in America. Passionate and committed, they connect educational leaders to the professional learning, leadership development, relationships and partnerships they need to ensure a long career of impact.

The Black Teacher Project
National Equity Project

The Black Teacher Project’s mission is to sustain and develop Black teachers to lead and reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning. Our vision is that every student will benefit from the diversity, excellence, and leadership of an empowered Black teaching force.

The Change Track
Brothers Empowered To Teach

Our mission is to provide opportunities and examples for underserved, marginalized student populations through the inspiration and incentivization of men of color that choose careers within education.

The change track is a program geared for the recent college graduate or career changer. This one year program is tailored to prepare, support and quickly move candidates into working in education. Through the change track, participants have the opportunity to participate to The Cipher and The Development Lab designed by Cipher 360 training while receiving interview, resumé and application coaching for full-time education opportunities.

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The Diverse Leaders Fellowship (DLF)
Noble Network

The Diverse Leaders Fellowship (DLF) is designed to identify our diverse talent and invest in their development, while also strengthening our leadership pipeline at Noble. This pathway will enhance the experience of its participants through supplemental professional development, networking opportunities, and one-on-one mentoring. It is open to allNoble employees who identify as a member of a group that represents the communities we serve.

The LatinxEd Fellowship for Emerging Leaders
LatinxEd

LatinxEd is an education non-profit committed to investing in Latinx leadership and creating learning environments that expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina. Our works calls on our community to reimagine and redesign what equitable, inclusive learning environments and experiences could look like that truly recognize, honor, and serve the diverse needs of the Latinx immigrant community in North Carolina.

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The Moonshot Fellowship
Moonshot EdVentures

Moonshot edVentures builds the pipeline of diverse leaders to design and launch the learning environments of tomorrow in Metro Denver, and is setting an example for early stage leadership preparation for cities across the country. To date, Moonshot has supported 68 Fellows to design and lead charter schools, micro-schools, district turnaround schools, and after school programs. Throughout the Fellowship, Moonshot Fellows build their entrepreneurial muscle, and explore their leadership of people, instruction, strategy and operations. Moreover, Moonshot works to keep “self” at the center, both in terms of identity and self-care.  The Moonshot Fellowship takes place in three stages, with Fellows collaborating with the Moonshot team to identify whether the Fellow carries the readiness and commitment to continue to the next stage of the Fellowship.

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The National Institute For Latino School Leaders (NILSL)
Unidos US

The National Institute for Latino School Leaders, NILSL, will bridge a current gap in the policy arena by infusing the voice of school leaders working with and on behalf of Latino students. UnidosUS NILSL Fellows will provide insights, highlight practices, and inform policies that directly relate to or impact Latino youth in the public school system.

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The Racial Literacy Project
Teachers College Columbia University

Since 2009, the Racial Literacy Roundtable Series has been a space for students at TC, alumni, as well as youth, practicing teachers, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other professionals in the Greater New York area to voice their concerns, share their research and experiences, and find constructive ways to improve their practice by challenging their notions about race.

The Roca Impact Institute
Roca

Roca’s mission is to be a relentless force in disrupting incarceration, poverty, and racism by engaging the young adults, police, and systems at the center of urban violence in relationships to address trauma, find hope, and drive change.

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Trauma Wellness and Family Parent Workshop
Reach

In these workshops, we create a space where young people can chat to us about what’s going on in their lives – whatever that may be.

Visiting Fellowship
Education Pioneers

The Visiting Fellowship, one of EP’s most promising recent pilots, identifies, supports, and retains rising diverse leaders who are already working in education full-time.

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We Will All Rise
We Will All Rise

The product of 25 years of experience in community-focused advocacy, and the 2019 convening of six young men of color asked to imagine the possibilities of a barrier and boundary-free world. Organized as an integrative, service-oriented clearinghouse, we are anchored in 3 main development pillars -higher education, economic empowerment and community engagement - designed to effect lasting and systemic change.

oneTILT
oneTILT

oneTILT’s mission is to grow education managers to lead from a place of equity and innovation.

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