PSI – For YOU by US

A White Anti-Racist Workshop with Liza Gleason and Prospect Sierra Faculty and Staff 

Wednesday, Jul 17, 2024
8:30 am – 3:30 pm
$400 per attendee

• Deepen your own learning as a white educator in order to better support all students, parents, and colleagues in diverse educational settings.
• Explore various structures that can support white accountability work in school settings.
• Bring ideas back to your school teams to further the work white folks are doing in your school .

Come learn alongside us as we share our stories and ongoing questions and challenges. We’ll use some of the approaches we’ve explored and provide space and structure for you to consider your challenges and hopes for work with white identifying community members at your school. At the center of our work, and of this day of learning, is the belief that we need to expose and examine whiteness in ourselves and in the institutions we move through every day. You’ll come away with a renewed sense of purpose, ideas about ways to engage your community, and new connections to educators across schools committed to examining whiteness. 

Led by Head of School, Nisa Frank, and CFO Soo Zee Park 

Thursday, July 18th, 2024
9:00 – 11:00 am, via Zoom
$250 per attendee

We invite you to join us in conversation as we share our learnings from continuing to develop a fully transparent pay scale, the creation of a compensation philosophy and a tuition philosophy to help guide our budgeting, and how a Budget Advisory Committee functions in collaboration with the Board of Trustees. 

Led by Director of Equity & Inclusion, Britt Anderson, and Elementary Spanish Teacher, Maria Montes Clemens 

Thursday, July 18th, 2024
9:00 – 11:00 am
$250 per attendee

Prospect Sierra Director of Equity & Inclusion and Elementary Spanish Teacher/Equity and Inclusion Teacher Leader will share the school’s unique journey to bring joyful visibility of underrepresented groups to our community through development and education around a “No Homework Day” calendar. They will also share how they built educator capacity, deepened curriculum, and cultivated cross-grade connections through the creation of a rotating community visibility board celebrating our learning and understanding of a decolonized calendar.

Come discuss what it takes for an institution to create equitable space and scaffolding to support everyone to contribute to the ongoing and dynamic celebration of community, school-wide as well as in grade level and specialist curriculum.  You’ll leave with visibility examples, book lists, a calendar communication model, and questions to take back to your community.

Led by Prospect Sierra teachers: Annie Fujimoto, Maria Montes Clemens, Melody Gil, and Priti Hulse 

Thursday, July 18th, 2024
2:00 – 4:00 pm
$250 per attendee

Learn how, as non-Indigenous POC allies, we researched, collaborated across disciplines, and moved beyond Land Acknowledgements.

Indigenous stories are powerful and important to share; teaching about indigenous presence and practices, and often having important lessons built into them. Collaborating with others to illuminate a story allows us to deepen and strengthen our understanding across the community.

This collaborative unit is the result of seeds planted years ago, contours in our disciplines and how they come together, and finally a confluence of a multiple-disciplinary project that dove into indigenous wisdom, technology, and impact. We will show you the results of our winter study and work backward to how we got there. Hear how we learned from each other, administration, and others in our allyship work.

Led by Prospect Sierra faculty/staff: Nathan Tanaka, Quise Rodriguez, and Britt Anderson

Friday, July 19th, 2024
11:00 am – 1:30 pm, via Zoom
$250 per attendee

With more and more research recognizing the ways implicit bias impacts hiring and the rising concern about the lack of diversity of leadership throughout the independent schools, Prospect Sierra has taken the opportunity with each new employee search process, including our most recent Head Search in 2018, to directly challenge implicit bias. Learn how we engage our search committees, in exploring the concept of implicit bias and illuminating the team’s own biases during the process. Learn and practice a variety of strategies to decrease the impact of implicit bias when hiring for all positions in your community.