Diversity Resources

Enhancing diversity requires more than lip service to the idea of enrolling culturally diverse students. At EAC, we recognize the need for fundamental changes in order to transition successfully from a predominantly white institution to one in which each individual – regardless of identity – can thrive. 

Faculty/Staff DEI Training

• Brave Trainings, LLC workshops on identity, anti bias, cultures of belonging
• Mental Health First Aid
• LGBTQ Inclusive Practices
• Diversity Directions Independent School Seminar
• Independent School Management’s Double Edged Sword of Diversity
• SEED (Creating Conversational Communities That Drive Change)
• The Race Institute for K-12 Educators
• Gender Spectrum
• National Association of Independent School’s, People of Color Conference
• White Responsibility: A National Teach-In on Anti-Racism in America
  

   

Summer Work 2019

Each member of the faculty, staff and administration participated in small group discussions and curriculum development based on our reading of, Whistling Vivaldi, how stereotypes affect us and what we can do, by Claude M. Steele.

Summer Work 2018

Each member of the faculty, staff and administration participated in small group discussions and curriculum development based on their choice from the following resources:

• Raising White Kids, Jennifer Harvey
• Witnessing Whiteness, Shelly Tochluk
• So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• What If All The Kids Are White?, Julie Olsen Edwards
• What Does it Mean to Be White?, Robin DiAngelo

   

Professional Development Resources Used by EACMSI Faculty/Staff:

• Jacqueline Battalora: Birth of a White Nation
• Dr. Jonathan Metzl: Dying of Whiteness
• Ijeoma Oluo: Interrupting Whiteness
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Zaretta Hammon
• Race: The Power Of Illusion
• The Mask We Live In
• Tim Wise: White Like Me
• Chimamanda Adichi: Danger of a Single Story
• Peggy McIntosh: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Louise Derman Sparks: Anti-Bias Education
• Rethinking Schools: Rethinking Sexism, Gender and Sexuality
• Stacey York: Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture in Early Childhood Programs
• Lee Mun Wah: The Color of Fear
• Anderson Cooper 360: A Look at Race Relations through a Child’s Eyes
• NPR: Bias Isn’t Just A Police Problem, It’s A Preschool Problem
• TED: How Can I Have a Positive Racial Identity? I’m White! | Ali Michael
• TED: Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk? | Beverly Daniel Tatum
• NYTimes Op-Docs: 25 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity
• ItzYourz TV feature: Tim Wise, “The Pathology of White Privilege”
• The Seattle Times: What Does White Privilege Mean To You?
• Ta Nehisi Coates: The Case For Reparations
• Terry Real (Salon): Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity are Dominating America Under Trump

For Parents

• 100 RACE-CONSCIOUS THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR CHILD TO ADVANCE RACIAL JUSTICE
  via Raising Race Conscious Kids
• Teaching Tolerance: How white parents should talk to their young kids about race by Melinda Wenner Moyer
• Even Babies Discriminate article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
• A Resource for Talking About Race with Young Children from Raising Race Conscious Children
• Talking to Children about Racism & Diversity from the Leadership Conference, the nation’s premier civil and human rights coalition
• Recommended Reading List; AWARE-LA recommended reading list from Alliance of Anti-Racists Everywhere
• How silence can breed prejudice: A child development professor explains how and why to talk to kids about race, published by The Washington Post on July 6, 2015
• It’s My Job to Raise Children Who Are Not Only Not Racist But Actively Anti-Racist, published by Huffington Post on July 1, 2015
• The Hard Talk: White Parents Discussing Racism with White Children, published in Uprooting Criminology on June 20, 2015