banner

IS DENVER - How We Show Up Workshop

What is anti-racist school integration and why is it important?

 

Workshop Details

Please join us for an IN PERSON workshop! 

When: Sunday, September 11th; 9a-1:30p; includes lunch

Where: Regis University / 3333 Regis Blvd. / Denver, CO 80221

Cost: $75 suggested donation to help cover costs (facilitators’ travel, food, etc.).

We do not want cost to be a barrier, please pay what you can, and if you can pay more we appreciate it!


The Integrated Schools “How We Show Up” Workshop


  • Have you made a decision to have your child attend an integrated school, one where the demographics of the school match the demographics of the district? 

  • Is your child in a school where they are in the racial minority?  

  • Are you wondering how you personally can help create a more integrated and equitable school system? 


Join Integrated Schools - Denver chapter members, friends, and members from chapters across the country for a workshop on how White and privileged caregivers can show up differently in our schools to interrupt the ways White privilege pervades our school system, and to support anti-racist school integration.  



What can you expect to explore: 

  • What is anti-racist school integration and why is it important? 

  • What are the ways that Whiteness and White supremacy show up in our schools and how can we liberate ourselves?

  • Why is our impact more important than intent? How do we better understand and change our impacts? 

This workshop is for parents who are ready (or are readying themselves) to be agents of integration and educational justice in their communities.  While desegregating our own children is an important step toward educational equity, how we show up  -- how we integrate our families – is critical. How can integrating parents (and, in particular, White and/or privileged parents) translate good intentions into positive impact? How can we move toward being antiracist members of a school community? 

 

Drawing from relevant research and experiences of integrating parents in communities around the country, this workshop highlights grounding principles and common pitfalls alongside frameworks for how to approach integrating without colonizing. 



Want to get a head start? Check-out our webinar and other resources here..


Please check back soon!

donate

This campaign has ended or is not currently active.
Contact us if you would like more information on how to support!

Support Now:

$

Updates

Meet the facilitators! August 07, 2022

Your Facilitators


Andrew Lefkowits is a White dad from Denver. His kids attend the same integrating elementary school he attended. He also hosts the Integrated Schools Podcast.









Bridget Gernander grew up in Minneapolis going to an integrated elementary school before her parents White flighted to the suburbs. Bridget formed a local chapter of Integrated Schools in 2017 to have parent-to-parent conversations about how to live your values through the school choices you make.







Kim Gomez lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their four kids. Moving their oldest from a majority White, heavily-resourced school to a nearby global majority school was “one of the best decisions of our entire life.” She has the distinction of leading a workshop like this with IS founder, Courtney Everts Mykytyn.









Susan co-chairs the Pasadena IS chapter of Integrated Schools.Her young adult daughters attended both privilege-concentrating and integrating schools. She works with a grassroots group that encourages parents to connect with local

(district) schools and engage in ways that embrace equity.




Why So Many White People?


Integrated Schools was founded in 2015 by Courtney Everts Mykytyn, as a group of mostly White parents. Informed by researchers and thought leaders of color, we encourage “White and/or privileged” families to enroll our children in schools where they are not in the majority, with the understanding that when we arrive, our impact matters more than our intent.

White parents continue to be the key barrier to redressing the imbalance of racial and educational power in our systems of education. As Nikole Hannah-Jones has said, “we have a system where White people control the outcomes, and the outcome that most Americans want is segregation.” White people have been the architects of systems that maintain racial hierarchy everywhere in our country, and especially in schools. White parents have consistently fought against policies that would put our children in schools with Black and Brown children. We have largely avoided enrolling our children in these schools, treated diversity primarily as a commodity for the benefit of our own children, and enrolled in global majority schools with the assumption that they are broken and need White parents to fix them.


Can’t join us but want to learn more? 


Join the Integrated Schools mailing list and make sure to select the Denver chapter: http://eepurl.com/g8Mdlz

Links

Comments

Join our mailing list:

By clicking I agree to the terms.

Contact Us