Teaching for Equity and Justice Summer Institute

Across the country, educators and administrators are acknowledging that schools themselves—both the practice of schooling and the outcomes students are achieving—are not equitable across lines of race and class. Facing History and Ourselves has designed a professional development model to help educators address these troubling and historically rooted disparities.

Our vision is to support educators and school leaders both individually and collectively as they move to more equitable practices that enable all students to find their voice and civic agency, become critical thinkers, and be fully engaged in their education. During this two-day online experience, educators will examine moments in the history of American education and its current legacies of inequity, gaining in the process the tools necessary to mitigate against these barriers to equity.

During this online institute, participants will:

• Explore the history of race, schooling, and academic identity to better understand the root causes of present-day educational inequities.
• Engage with contemporary scholarship and gain tools to address these historical legacies in your school context. 

Taking place over three days, this institute offers a real-time, interactive online classroom where participants will connect in facilitated whole- and small-group sessions.

Institute At-a-Glance Details

Who should take this institute: Middle school and high school teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, social workers, school leaders, and school teams.

Cost: There is a non-refundable $25 registration fee due once your application has been accepted. The $700 fee for this seminar has been waived thanks to generous funding from Facing History and Ourselves donors and partner organizations.

Duration: 3 days

Schedule: Tuesday, June 25 – Thursday, June 27, 2024 

• Tuesday, June 25: 11 AM – 4 PM  (see in your time zone)
• Wednesday, June 26: 11 AM – 4 PM (see in your time zone)
• Thursday, June 27: 11 AM – 4 PM ET  (see in your time zone)

Time Commitment: Approximately 4.5 hours per day (plus some breaks). There is a pre-work module to complete before the institute that is approximately 2 hours long. 

Format: Facilitated Zoom meetings with session materials in Canvas.

Accessibility: Facing History is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive educational environment for educators of all abilities. If you have an accessibility need, please contact us at support [at] facinghistory.org (support[at]facinghistory[dot]org).

Certificate of Completion: Awarded upon successful completion of the institute for 15 professional development hours. Requirements for professional development hours vary by state. It is the educator's responsibility to ensure that they are meeting the requirements of their state. If you are an educator based in New York, after taking this course you are eligible for 15 CTLE hours. If you are an educator based in Illinois, after taking this course you are eligible for up to 15 clock hours.  If you are an educator based in Massachusetts, you are eligible for up to 15 PDP hours. Please contact us to learn more about CTLE hours, clock hours, or PDP hours.

This institute is supported with generous funding from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.