Join us virtually to learn more about the Inclusive Community Leadership Certificate Program at TESC:

Learn to lead school transformation for inclusive, safe, healthy and just school communities where families belong

When school districts create new strategic plans with clear and specific equity goals, educators have to learn new social practices to realize these goals. New education policy generally under conceptualizes and under specifies the amount new learning required to achieve the new policy goals. Achieving equity goals is particularly complex, situated, ongoing and may be best accomplished with skilled, accurate, timely and accessible coaching. Drawing on the successful model of instructional coaching, an Inclusive Community Leader is trained to support school wide transformation from exclusion to inclusion and from retributive justice to restorative justice. The skills identified for this certificate program include a comprehensive understanding of anti-racist practices for education, racial identity development, affinity group support, non-violent dispute resolution, mediation, large group facilitation, de-escalation, threat assessment, working with community organizations and restorative justice practices including community building, and problem solving, consensus decision making, and circle practices, re-entry, repair and reconciliation practices. With leadership, educators and whole school district communities can learn to be anti-racist, non-violent, fair, equitable, inclusive and able to participate in and perpetuate an effective democracy.