Cultural Competency: Leading Radical Change is Education for Liberation's grant initiative supported by funding from the Indiana Department of Education. We use a train-the-trainer model to develop the expertise of school leadership teams to lead radical change for students of color, English learners, students with disabilities, and students who are economically disadvantaged. Our current work consists of Targeted School Improvement sites (and sometimes other schools/districts prioritizing equity interventions) who opt in to one or more of four professional learning strands over two years.
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Why We Need Education for Liberation
Our learning strands develop the critical consciousness of educators to recognize and address inequities, which empowers them to use cultural knowledge to develop practices grounded in the lived experiences of their students. This critical stance leads to more reflective and engaged praxis, the actions taken to be a threat to educational inequities.
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Our Impact
By implementing our "train-the-trainer" model, Education for Liberation ensures the sustainability of equity efforts and increases the capacity of school teams to lead learning for their colleagues with the support of E4L facilitators.
Our Strands of Work
Our four professional learing strands include Equity; Pedagogy; Curriculum; and Families, Communities, & School Engagement. All four strands share the goal of improved equity for all learners, while the Equity strand is a broader introduction to schooling for equity practices. Our Equity and Pedagogy strands launched in Summer 2020 while our Curriculum and FCS strands launch in Summer 2022.