Professional Development > Academies
The first Academies of their kind. A rich, deep, scholarly curriculum with profound learning around histories of oppression, created to unite minds in the same learning space for two and a half engaging days, run by educators with a passion as big as yours.
With a scholarly approach that goes past the fluff, we’re here to help school leaders use their power and position to create culturally responsive environments. Such profound learning happens when principals, superintendents, and other school leaders gather together in the same learning space to discuss CRSL. Over the course of each leadership academy, participants will spend their time digging into history and theory, activities and practices, and leadership and systems change.
Who can attend leadership academies?
Leadership academies are designed specifically for teacher-leaders, school-based leaders, district leaders, superintendents, and board members. However, other educators and staff (such as equity directors/DEI leaders or non-profit organization officers) can also benefit deeply from our CRSL Academies.
How are academies structured?
In-person leadership academies are 2 consecutive full days + one half day, and are traditionally hosted by the school district participating in the academy. Up to 60 individual can participate.
Virtual leadership academics can either be 2 consecutive full days + one half day, or 5 half-days. They are hosted online and up to 100 individuals can participate.
How do I sign leaders at my school or district up for an academy?
To attend a leadership academy, you can either join one that has already been scheduled, or contact us to schedule one that works for your district.
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Legacy Academy
Featuring the work of Muhammad Khalifa, PhD, author of Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Through CRSLI’s most foundational learning experience, Legacy Academy participants will embark on a journey to develop core Culturally Responsive School Leadership understandings and skills. By uncovering the historical oppression of minoritized students and communities, participants will learn to disrupt oppressive structures and systems to achieve racial equity and social justice for students and communities.
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Genius & Joy Academy
Featuring the work of Gholdy Muhammad, PhD, author of Cultivating Genius and Unearthing Joy
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s groundbreaking books have empowered tens of thousands of educators to implement culturally and historically relevant education (CHRE) through the Five Pursuits. Become a leader of Dr. Muhammad’s approach by deepening your instructional leadership skills through a framework that centers culturally responsive leadership for developing a humanizing curriculum.
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Disrupting Equity Traps & Tropes Academy
Featuring the work of Jamila Dugan, EdD, co-author of Street Data
In this academy, Dr. Jamila Dugan and the CRSLI team will take you on a voyage to discover the traps that delimit our capacities to lead for social justice and antiracism. By leveraging the Culturally Responsive School Leadership Framework, you will develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to redefine data as actionable, eye-level, and humanizing.
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Special Education Academy
Featuring the work of Keith Mayes, PhD, author of The Unteachables
In this remarkable academy on racialization in special education, participants develop Culturally Responsive School Leadership skills to visibilize historical continuities upholding racial oppression and social injustices in special education policies, systems, and practices. Discover the tools, skills and mindsets leaders need to uproot systemic racism in this complex field of education.
Participants walk away with deep knowledge, readily usable tools, and new skill sets that will lead to both short and long-term shifts in practice. Those shifts lead to schools becoming more humanizing spaces for minoritized students.
“The Culturally Responsive Leadership Academy brought our district what is missing in most equity professional development - historical context. This combined with the excellent readings and facilitation has genuinely had an impact on how we view our equity work as system work, not just personal work.”
Renee Corneille - Superintendent St. Anthony-New Brighton Public Schools