2020 – Present
February 2021
Cultivating Inclusive Learning Communities: Part 2
Guest Presenter:
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the American Studies Program, Rutgers University.
August 2020
Answering the Call of Social Justice
Julian Braxton in Conversation with
Jamira Burley, Social Justice Advocate & Next-Gen Social Impact Leader
August 2020
Cultivating Inclusive Learning Communities: Part 1 Tools and Skills for Managing Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
Guest Presenter:
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the American Studies Program, Rutgers University.
May 2020
Dr. Rachel Mahmood, Fifth-grade teacher and author of the Teaching Tolerance article: Online Teaching Can Be Culturally ResponsiveAmid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator istrying with her fifth-grade students. Dr. Mahmood offered practical tips for culturally responsive distance learning.
April 2020
Exploring anti-Asian/Asian-American Racism in the Time of COVID-19
Asian-American leaders in Massachusetts decry racism amid global pandemic.
Guests:
April 2020
Why Black Americans are Hit Harder by the Coronavirus
Special Guest
Angela Coombs (Winsor '06), psychiatrist at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute talk about her. New York Times
letter to the editor.
February 2020
Gender and Sexual Diversity: An Exploration
Facilitators: Christina Baudis, Maren Kelsey, and Alice F. Stern
This workshop builds a collective understanding of sex, sexuality, and gender and will also work through various scenarios that arise in our practice in order to deepen understanding.
February 2020
Why Black Parents Worry: the Independent School Experience
This workshop will address the anxieties that underlie interactions of black parents and schools. The basis of these anxieties will be addressed as well as the implications and impacts. We will then address constructive ways for schools to sensitively address these anxieties through a case study approach. The solutions will be shaped by and incorporate Winsor's Faculty and Staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Survey and the summer reading book "The Person You Mean to Be."
February 2020
Exploring Identity and Community: Fostering Civil Discourse Across Difference
How can we have intentional conversations in these times? What role does individual and collective identity play in how we relate to our colleagues, students and their families? This session will surface some of the complexities of fostering civil discourse and provide opportunities for reflection on how to engage in conversation across difference.