2019 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference October 11, 2019 Tower Hill School 2813 W. 17th Street, Wilmington, DE 19806 TOWER HILL SCHOOL 19th Street CAMPUS MAP Math/Science Building: Math/Science • Classrooms (1st & 2nd Floor) Building Founder’s • Lecture Hall Gallery (Ground Upper School Upper School Floor) Middle School Middle School Classrooms Classrooms DuPont 1st and/or 2nd Floors 1st and/or 2nd Floors Theater MS Study Hall MS/US Library (1st Floor) Carpenter Fieldhouse Carpenter 1919 Weaver Gym Rm. LS Library Carpenter Fieldhouse: 17th Street • ADVIS Information Center Tower Road • Registration & Breakfast Rising LaneSun • Keynotes • Wrestling Room LUNCH Pick-up - Weaver Gym (Morning Meditation) LUNCH Seating: • Weaver Gym (530 seats) • Founder’s Gallery (90 seats) • 1919 Room (120 seats) • Limited outdoor seating available on fields across Hayward House: from Main Entrance POC Reception • Additional seating in workshop classrooms (by pre-reservation only) welcome Welcome to the 2019 MCRC@ADVIS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Conference! This Conference offers you, educators and school We are especially grateful to the Conference leaders, the opportunity for skill-building, learning, Underwriters, whose support made it feasible for our and community-making, and seeks to equip you schools to participate in high numbers – be certain to to advance and promote equitable and inclusive peruse the Conference Book and visit their tables and practices and policies in all areas of school life, and websites to learn more about their services. beyond. Through myriad sessions led by experts and adult and student school leaders, the MCRC@ADVIS And we thank the MCRC@ADVIS Program DEI Conference invites you to challenge and explore Committee and all those who preceded it in your own ideas and practices while gaining the skills founding and nourishing MCRC and its work from to build safe spaces, engage in constructive conversa- 1990 to today. tions, and advocate for change at all levels. We are pleased to present this outstanding lineup Planning and organizing this Conference has been of Diversity Practitioners and Educators. It is our sin- a delight! We are indebted to many: Bessie Speers cere hope that you will lean into this day devoted to who immediately said “yes” to closing school for equity, inclusion and social justice, and leave with Tower Hill to host; the Proposal Review Committee concrete steps you can take to advance matters of (Dyann Connor, Toni Graves Williamson, Naté Hall, respect and diversity in your school, your community, and Celeste Payne); the entire Tower Hill “Logistics” and the world. team, led by Dyann Connor and Alex Karlesses; the Barbara Kraus-Blackney numerous volunteers from Tower Hill School who President helped to bring this exciting day about; and a last, Jennifer Braxton but by no means least, exuberant shout out to Director of Professional Development, ADVIS Office Manager, Mary Cardona and new ADVIS ADVIS team member, Candyce Wilson, Member Services Assistant. We couldn’t have done it without all of you! table of contents CAMPUS MAP ........................................... 02 PROGRAM/AGENDA ................................. 04 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ............................... 05 HOW TO CHOOSE A WORKSHOP .............. 06 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS ..................... 07 WORKSHOP PRESENTERS ........................ 24 UNDERWRITERS ...................................... 38 Tower Hill School 3 program/agenda 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CHECK-IN & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM MORNING MEDITATION ~ Wrestling Room, Carpenter Fieldhouse Optional morning meditation with certified mindfulness and meditation teacher, Andrea Sarko, Tower Hill School 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM WELCOMES; OPENING KEYNOTE: Tim Wise ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse Beyond Diversity: Steps for Uprooting Racism, Privilege and Institutional Inequity 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM 15 minute BREAK 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS ROUND 1 ~ Various locations See p. 7-23, for workshop descriptions and room locations. 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM LUNCH ~ Pick-Up Lunches in Weaver Gym (Seating in various locations) • Weaver Gymnasium (530 seats) • Founder’s Gallery (90 seats) • 1919 Room (120 seats) • Limited outdoor seating available on fields across from Main Entrance • Additional seating in workshop locations (see p. 7-23) 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BOOK SIGNING with Tim Wise ~ Founder’s Gallery Book Store Visit the conference book store to purchase books from our keynote speakers and workshop presenters, in addition to other relevant titles. 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM BOOK SIGNING with Peggy McIntosh ~ Founder’s Gallery Book Store Visit the conference book store to purchase books from our keynote speakers and workshop presenters, in addition to other relevant titles. 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS ROUND 2 ~ Various locations See p. 7-23, for workshop descriptions and room locations. 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CITY LOVE PERFORMANCE ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse City Love (Sterling Duns and Caselli Jordan) an MCRC@ADVIS & Carney Sandoe Equity in Action Grant Recipient, is a West Philly social justice music and education duo. 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE: Julie Lythcott-Haims ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse Real American: How I Learned to Love My Black and Biracial Self in a Country where Black Lives Weren’t Meant to Matter 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM BOOK SIGNING with Julie Lythcott-Haims ~ Founder’s Gallery Visit the conference book store to purchase books from our keynote speakers and workshop presenters, in addition to other relevant titles. 3:45 PM NETWORKING RECEPTION for People of Color working in ADVIS Member Schools. This reception is by pre-reservation only ~ Hayward House 4 2019 DEI Conference keynote speakers OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TIM WISE Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1,000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country. He has also lectured internationally, in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, entertainment, media, law enforcement, military, and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Tim Wise’s Schedule: • 8:30-10:15 AM ~ Opening Keynote “Beyond Diversity: Steps for Uprooting Racism, Privilege and Institutional Inequity” World-renowned anti-racist author Tim Wise will explore the causes, both formal and informal, for institutional racial inequities and will offer practical methods on dismantling discrimination in our society. ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse • 10:30-11:45 PM ~ “Challenging the Culture of Cruelty: Understanding and Defeating Race and Class Inequity in America.” In this talk, drawn from his newest book, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Jeopardizing the Future of America, Tim Wise examines the ways in which American politics and culture serve to rationalize inequalities on the basis of class and race. This is a ticketed event by pre-registration only ~ Founder’s Gallery. • 11:45-12:15 PM ~ Book Signing - Founder’s Gallery Book Store. CONFERENCE BOOK STORE: Many thanks to MCRC@ADVIS DEI Book Seller, Main Point Books! Be sure to visit our Book Store in the Founder’s Gallery between 11:45 AM and 4:00 PM to pick up books by our keynote speakers, Tim Wise and Julie Lythcott-Haims, and workshop presenters Peggy McIntosh (p. 34) and Al Vernacchio (p. 37), among other relevant authors/titles. See program agenda at left for book signing info! (www.mainpointbooks.com) CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (2015) and Real American: A Memoir (2017). Julie received her bachelors degree at Stanford University, her law degree at Harvard Law School, and her MFA in writing from the California College of the Arts. She is deeply interested in what prevents people from living meaningful, fulfilling lives. Julie Lythcott-Haims’s Schedule: • 12:45-2:00 PM ~ “Supporting our Students of Color.” An intimate and informal discussion with Julie Lythcott-Haims moderated by Darryl Ford, Head of School, William Penn Charter School, about how to ensure that our students of color thrive in our schools. This is a ticketed event by pre-registration only ~ Room 223 (Middle School, 2nd Floor Study Hall) • 2:15-3:30 PM ~ Closing Keynote “Real American: How I Learned to Love My Black and Biracial Self in a Country where Black Lives Weren’t Meant to Matter.” Julie Lythcott-Haims will speak about the experiences she details in her critically acclaimed memoir Real American about her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. ~ Carpenter Fieldhouse. • 3:30-4:00 PM ~ Book Signing ~ Founder’s Gallery Book Store. Tower Hill School 5 HOW TO CHOOSE A WORKSHOP Workshop sessions were selected because of their high quality proposals as well as their correlation to one of several program tracks as identified below. You are welcome to attend any session, with the exception of the Special Sessions with our Keynote Speakers which are ticketed, pre-paid sessions, by pre-registration only. Each workshop is available on a space available basis. Some workshops repeat in both rounds of concurrent sessions, while some workshops only take place in one or the other round—a notation at the end of the program description indicates if the workshop Session Repeats, is in Round 1 only or Round 2 only. Sessions are listed by title and description on pages 7-23, with additional information including presenter bios on pages 24-37. Ultimately you will attend TWO from over 50 workshops organized into the following Conference Tracks—look for the conference track name (as highlighted below) running vertically along the outside edge of each page. • Building Capacity: Skills, Competencies, and Processes for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (p.