Equity-in-Action Professional Learning Courses and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
ATAPE Group, LLC facilitates professional learning courses and PLCS, workshops, and retreats centered around equity and culturally responsive practice.
Courses and Workshops Include:
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In this workshop series, educators will engage in shared learning and professional development around the context, purpose, and definitions of culturally relevant pedagogy. They will explore best practices in culturally relevant teaching and develop a vision for their own schools or classrooms.their own schools.
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The Introduction to Equity series supports schools and systems in establishing a shared language, purpose, and vision for equity within their communities. Participants will collaboratively develop an equity action plan that outlines a doable approach to integrating an equity mindset into existing systems, routines, and procedures.
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Engaging students in social justice projects is an equity-focused educator move that improves students’ confidence and learning by connecting their studies to the real world. This workshop series reviews the benefits of engaging students in social justice work and provides best practices for incorporating these projects into the existing curriculum.
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This workshop series introduces participants to culturally responsive social-emotional learning and provides strategies and planning space for creating a culturally responsive classroom that affirms students’ identities and fosters social-emotional learning.
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Led by culturally relevant pedagogy expert Dr. Sabrina Hope King and her daughter, urban farmer and climate activist Ayanna-Grace King, this workshop series introduces educators and leaders to the principles of culturally relevant pedagogy, climate justice, and the intersection between these two areas. Participants will learn best practices for planning and engaging students in social justice projects and will utilize a template to collaboratively plan climate justice-focused projects for students.
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Our PLCs provide educators and their partners with the gift of time and experts to thought-partner with. Our methodology employs a cycle of continuous learning, inquiry and action to sustain classroom environments that affirm diversity, foster a sense of belonging and achieve academic excellence for all students. Through group work, facilitation, role-playing, and self-assessment, educators learn to implement rigorous, culturally relevant pedagogy and strategic data collection and analysis in order to improve student outcome.
Testimonials
“Since working with ATAPE Group, everything has changed about how I think about curriculum and planning. When I first started to make my lessons culturally relevant lessons, I couldn't believe how much more engaged my students were and how the quality of their work improved. My ATAPE coach has helped me learn to create culturally relevant units that support and require my students to become deep thinkers. I have such a sense of urgency now to make all of my lessons meaningful, relevant and rigorous. I can never go back.”
— Teacher
"Before Equity Scholars I think I was good at seeing my students as individuals but now I see them as individuals within a cultural context. I understand--because I've experienced it--the power of connecting to the history, the strength and the struggles of their communities. As a Black woman, this has changed everything about how I teach."
— Teacher
“I really loved the space that was created. I felt safe and comfortable to share and discuss with other peers in this work. I feel very grounded in the "why" of social justice projects and look forward to planning my lessons with that lens. I think the ATAPE Group provided tangible resources, provided work time, and encouraged discussion.”
— NYC Summer Rising DOE Participant
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility.”