Interdistrict Resources

School Climate/Educator Professional Development 

West Metro Education Program (MN)

• Cultural Collaborative Regional Professional Development Program

Hartford Open Choice (CT)

• Unity Teams (youth-focused) of up to 10 students bring attention to and strive to end bullying, teasing, harassment, and the use of degrading language. Three of the students must participate in the Open Choice Program.
• Book Club (educator-focused)
• Lunch & Learn

METCO (MA)

• Annual METCO Directors’ Association Conference–first organized in 1984 in an effort to provide staff development and information for educators and community members who worked with African-American children in suburban school settings.

National Coalition on School Diversity

• Tools for Teachers: Strategies for Addressing Racial Dynamics in the Classroom

 

Advocacy, Organizing, and Community Building

The Sheff Movement (CT)

• 2nd Annual Sheff Advocacy Day: March 12
• 2015 Legislative and Advocacy Agenda
• The Sheff Movement meets monthly on Saturdays.
• Social Justice Award for Reel Youth Hartford Film Festival (youth-focused)
• Mix It Up Teacher Appreciation Reception (educator-focused)

METCO (MA)

• Annual Lobby Day

CT Coalition for Magnet Schools (new in 2015)

• Advocacy and Storytelling Workshops Poster

 

Research and Reporting

Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties

Sheff Movement

• Measuring Progress

METCO Program

• METCO Merits More

Jen Holme and Kara Finnigan Research (forthcoming)

• Upcoming Presentation in Nebraska
• Presentation(s) at AERA
• Working on interdistrict research brief for NCSD

 

Benefits of Diversity

• The White Interest in School Desegregation, Robert A. Garda Jr., 63 Fla. L. Rev. 599 (2011)
• NCSD Research Briefs
• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter by Katherine Phillips in Scientific American (Sept. 16, 2014)