Course Description

CREED Academy 101 is an opportunity to develop local leadership and advocacy through web-based professional development experiences for all North Carolina public school stakeholders. CREED is committed to changing the trajectory for the more than one-million students in our public school education system. We understand the much-needed transformation required to create competence and confidence in our anti-racist approach to equity. These small group learning sessions are convened around specific topics related to building critical consciousness for educators and stakeholders.

Course Objectives

After this course participants will be able to:

• Build language together and describe the ongoing historical struggle for education equity
• Reflect on personal identity and cultural identities of North Carolina's students
• Identify pedagogical practices proven effective with minoritized groups
• Define and pinpoint how to apply abolitionist teaching and culturally affirming practices
• Explain what we mean by Understanding Hidden Data and Policy connections
• Develop an outline for an Equity Plan
• Explore additional resources (books, movies, dashboards, scholarly articles, and more)