School Climate/Educator Professional Development
West Metro Education Program (MN)
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
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)
Research and Reporting
Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties
Sheff Movement
METCO Program
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)