Leading Your School Toward Equity

Explore a transformative framework to implement effective school equity practices for impactful results. Delve into leadership strategies, professional development activities, and practical tools designed to build coherence and foster an authentic equity-driven culture by gaining the skills to lead courageous, equity-focused change for sustainable improvement.

Purpose & Objectives:

1. Participants will engage in a foundational framework for building coherence around equity within their own school contexts.
2. Attendees will learn strategies to create productive discomfort, facilitating open and honest discussions with staff that will have a positive impact on students' schooling experiences.
3. Participants will learn ways to build a culture of higher efficacy.
4. Participants will acquire practical approaches for normalizing their use of an equity lens in daily leadership practices.

When/Where:
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Presidential Ballroom B, Gaylord Opryland
Topic:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Instructional Leadership & Coaching, Principal Effectiveness
Format:
Innovator Talk
Audience:
School-Based Administrators (Principal, Assistant Principal)

Presented by


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Dr. Dwayne Chism

CEO

Shifting Perspectives, LLC.

ASCD & ISTE Author

Dwayne Chism, Ed.D., is a former Dean of the School of Education at Peru State College. He teaches at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, which honored him with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013-2014. Dr. Chism founded Shifting Perspectives, Inc. in 2018 as a company dedicated to growing leaders and helping schools reach equitable outcomes for all learners. He has authored several articles for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum (ASCD), including a book in 2022, Leading Your School Toward Equity, a finalist for the Excellence in Equity Award presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education.


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Dr. Kanyon Chism

Chief of Staff

Omaha Public Schools

Kanyon Chism, Ed.D. serves as the Chief of Staff for the Omaha Public Schools. In this role she supports strategic projects, provides coherence across district priorities, and serves as administrator for Educational Service Unit 19. Dr. Chism has served the Omaha Public Schools community in various positions including instructional paraprofessional, elementary teacher, Assistant Principal, Elementary Coordinator, and Executive Director of ESU 19 and Professional Learning and Development. Dr. Chism and her spouse, Dwayne Chism, Ed.D., have three children: Tia (20), Braylon (17), and Zevin (13).


When/Where:
,
Presidential Ballroom B, Gaylord Opryland
Topic:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Instructional Leadership & Coaching, Principal Effectiveness
Format:
Innovator Talk
Audience:
School-Based Administrators (Principal, Assistant Principal)