Why Are We Asking the Same Questions
About Diversity We Asked 20 Years Ago?
Even though
issues of diversity in independent schools have already gone through much change,
challenging notions linger--ideas and perceptions that confound our best
efforts to fully integrate daily practice with expressed values, visions, and
missions. How can we better prepare ourselves to have greater success in
creating welcoming and inclusive school communities? Why are we still so often missing the mark?
Have we avoided asking the hard questions? Or are we not staying in conversation long
enough to work things through?
Join
colleagues from other TAIS schools for a frank, interactive session aimed at
pinpointing questions that get to the heart of central diversity issues and
challenges in independent schools. Participants
will be invited to confront and thus address critical issues that elude
many schools, including why our efficacy in the areas of diversity and
inclusion stagnates, loses traction and wanes.
This workshop
was specially designed for independent schools, and it is meant to start a
conversation about diversity and inclusion that will continue when the
participants return to their schools. To
receive the maximum benefit from it, TAIS recommends sending a diverse team of
three or four teachers and administrators.
Schools that send three or more participants will receive a twenty
percent discount.
The TAIS Diversity
Workshop will be led by Orpheus Crutchfield, President of StratéGenius, a
high-touch, high-impact educational consulting and recruitment firm
specializing in placement of teachers, administrators and other professionals
of color in the US and abroad. He has been a speaker on issues of
diversity and inclusion at many events, including the NAIS Annual Conference,
the NAIS People of Color Conference, and the California Association of Independent
Schools Board of Trustees/Heads Conference.
