Book Harvest Summer Block Party
2023-07-22 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Durham Bulls Athletic Park, 409 Blackwell St., Durham, NC, 27701, US
Come join Book Harvest and community favorites in celebrating National Summer Learning and books at the annual Summer Block Party! The afternoon will be action-packed, featuring fun-filled family activities and entertainment, and an abundance of free, culturally inclusive children’s books for every child – from infants to high schoolers – to choose their very own books to take home and keep forever! Free admission and parking.
Additional event details and the afternoon’s full schedule at bookharvest.org/block-party.

Accelerating Learning through Blended and Personalized Learning
2023-07-11 09:00 - 2023-07-13 15:00 | Boardroom at Wilkes County Schools Administration Center, 613 Cherry Street, Wilkesboro, NC, 28659, US
Accelerate learning, engage learners, and increase student agency with blended and personalized learning strategies. In this 3-day, hands-on workshop participants will engage with research-based, highly effective strategies aligned with North Carolina’s 4 pillars of personalized learning; learner profiles, individual learning paths, flexible learning environments and competency-based progression. Explore resources and customize to “make and take” for use in your classroom. It is suggested that department or grade level teams participate to maximize the effectiveness of this workshop.
Day 1: Overview of 4 Pillars of Personalized Learning, Dimensions of Student Agency, and Learner Profiles
Day 2: Learning path design, Unpacking standards, Designing for accessibility
Day 3: Classflow, A Day in the Life of Your PL Classroom, Student Data Talk Protocols

Racial Equity in Education Forum
2023-06-28 17:45 - 19:15 | South Regional Library, 4505 Alston Ave, Durham, NC, 27713, US
Black children deserve learning environments that will nurture their natural abilities and enable them to thrive. Come out and be in community with
other families as we discuss how to navigate and disrupt racial inequities in the school system.

Educator Summer Institute
2023-06-27 08:30 - 16:00 | W.G. Pearson Center, 600 E. Umstead, Durham, NC, 27701, US
Participants Will:
– Build a historical understanding of racial constructs
– Develop strategies and techniques which extend anti-racist practices
– Promote civic engagement and co-conspiratorship with people of color on issues of racial justice

Educator Summer Institute
2023-06-27 08:30 - 2023-06-29 16:00 | W.G. Pearson Center, 600 E. Umstead, Durham, NC, 27701, US
The Institute aims to:
1) Build a historical understanding of racial construct;
2) Develop strategies and techniques which extend anti-racist practices into the school community;
3) Promote civic engagement and allyship with people of color on issues of racial justice in education.
Attendees will walk away with a plan to address a systemic racial equity issue within their own school, district, or organization. Participating K-12 teachers will earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs). It is strongly recommended that teams of at least three from each school/organization attend, but this is not a requirement.

Along the Stream - Building Character Summer Camp
2023-06-26 10:00 - 15:00 | The Master’s Hands Christian Church, 4204 Lake Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27604, US
The Along the Stream project aims to promote student interests in the application of chemistry in water-related industries. The goal of the Along the Stream project is to promote student led research through oral presentations, specialized STEM based workshop teaching water chemistry and current drought mitigation techniques, and other aspects of water-related issues in Raleigh North Carolina.

Opportunity for EVERY Child- Rally & Advocate Lunch
2023-06-21 10:00 - 13:00 | NC State Capitol and Edenton Street Church, 1 E Edenton Street, Raleigh, NC, 277010, US
Join us on June 21st to send a clear message to those who continue to deny our children their right to public education. We won’t be scammed, we won’t back down and we will continue to fight for EVERY CHILD.
RSVP here: https://rebrand.ly/June21

Race Forward Racial Justice Trainings
2023-06-20 11:00 - 17:30, 2023-06-13 11:00 - 17:30, 2023-06-06 11:00 - 17:30, 2023-05-16 11:00 - 17:30, 2023-05-11 11:00 - 17:30, 2023-04-04 11:00 - 2023-06-20 17:30 | Virtual
Signup for Building Racial Equity (Level 1)

Training Components:

Racial Justice Values & Vision

Key Concepts: Different Dimensions of Racism / Structural Racism

Implicit Bias and Systems Analysis

Opportunities to Advance Racial Justice

Participants will:

build a clear understanding of key concepts such as racial equity and structural racism

learn to talk about race constructively within their organizations and with their constituents

gain tools and practices for counteracting racial bias in their work and practices

identify opportunities and next steps for applying concepts and strategies to advance racial equity

3rd Annual Murfreesboro Juneteenth Freedom Day Festival
2023-06-17 12:00 - 19:00 | Riverside Park, 1301 River Street, Murfreesboro, NC, 27855, US
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Hues Of You Summer Camp
2023-06-12 09:30 - 2023-06-15 13:00 | Community School of Davidson, 565 Griffith Street, Davidson, NC, 28036, US
Rising 1st thru 8th grade campers engage in activities, painting, crafts, games, and books that help develop holistic, belonging language and a framework for seeing, honoring, and celebrating our many-hued, multicultural world. We build understanding, empathy, respect, and connection!

DREF National Reading Circle Virtual Book Discussion
2023-06-10 15:00 - 16:15 | Virtual, N/A, N/A, NC, N/A, US
Please join the Delta Research & Educational Foundation Sister Scholars Advisory Council’s National Reading Circle Virtual Book Discussion of Dr. Sonya Y. Ramsey’s biography, Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership, on Saturday, June 10 at 3 pm. Please see the link or QR code to register!

Circle of Hope for Single Parents
2023-05-15 18:00 - 2023-06-20 19:30 | Durham Children’s Initiative, 2101 Angier Rd, Second Floor, Durham, NC, 27703, US
Circle of Hope is a FREE six-week support group for Black parents, led by skilled facilitators. Come build community with parents you can relate to – we’re stronger together! Food and childcare provided.
Drop in to any session! Every Tuesday from 6:00 – 7:30 pm, until June 20th.

Black Women Superintendents Leading with Excellence
2023-05-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Join The Education Trust and the School Superintendents Association (AASA) for Black Women Superintendents Leading With Excellence

Panelists:

Dr. Latonya M. Goffney, Superintendent, Aldine Independent School District (TX)

Dr. Sonja Brookins Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (MD)

Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt, Interim Superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools (VA)

Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (CA)

Moderator: Arthur Jones II, ABC News Producer/Reporter

Description:

Black women make up only 1.4% of people leading school districts nationwide. However, in today’s environment, where classrooms have become sites of cultural and political conflict, Black women leaders are best positioned for the job. Black women know firsthand what it takes to thrive amid racism and sexism — overcoming systemic barriers and challenges that many of their peers do not endure. This lived experience fuels them daily as they work to meet their student’s academic and social-emotional needs and ensure that, despite the challenges of the pandemic, all students leave the K-12 school system with precisely what they need to succeed.

In this candid conversation, we’ll explore how to support students’ mental health, the pressures of leadership, recent book bans, and more. These leaders will also discuss what must be done to diversify the school leadership pipeline and, notably, how to support Black women school leaders once they take the helm.

2023 NC BLACK Summit: Moving Forward with Knowledge and Purpose
2023-04-27 08:00 - 2023-04-28 17:00 | Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, 4500 Marriott Dr, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27612, United States
Join us in person for the 17th Annual NC Black Summit on April 27-28, 2023, at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley. This signature event hosted by the North Carolina Black Alliance uniquely brings together Black elected officials, public policy advocates, community stakeholders, strategic partners, and community advocates from across the state to explore solutions to issues impacting OUR community and strategize on ways to build a more just and equitable North Carolina.

We look forward to being back in person to engage and collaborate with you around our theme, “Moving Forward with Knowledge and Purpose,” and to discuss critical issues impacting OUR community.

Science for All Summit
2023-04-05 08:30 - 20:30 | The Friday Conference Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, US
On April 5-6, 2023, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will host the inaugural Science for All Summit at the Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The Summit is a community convening to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The theme of this year’s Summit is From IDEA to Action.
The purpose of the Summit is to engage educators, practitioners, researchers, thought leaders, and other change agents in conversation and knowledge building around emerging issues and innovative strategies related to advancing IDEA in STEM. Putting these ideals into practice requires an intentional focus on creating authentic and adaptive environments while simultaneously cultivating a community that collaborates, innovates, and implements promising practices shown to effect sustainable change. At the Summit, we will provide opportunities to share new research findings, exchange resources, discuss strategies, and demonstrate effective practices and interventions. Our ultimate goal is to move From IDEA to Action as a community in the coming year.

7th Annual Let's Talk Racism Conference: 2023
2023-03-17 18:30 - 21:00 | North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC, 27707, US
Please join us for the 7th Annual Let’s Talk Racism Conference! Our theme this year is What’s at Stake?: Understanding the Attacks on Truth-Telling in Education. The keynote address will occur Friday, March 17th at 6:30pm and conference sessions will take place Saturday, March 18th from 9:00am – 4:00pm , at North Carolina Central University. We plan to be back in-person this year!
The purpose of this event is to give K-12 educators and pre-service teachers an opportunity to engage in sessions centered on the impact of systemic racism and ways of dismantling it in our schools. A CRT framework helps us achieve this goal. While educators are the target audience, we welcome all community members to participate.
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has previously served as a classroom teacher, literacy specialist, school district administrator, curriculum director, and school board president. She studies Black historical excellence in education, intending to reframe curriculum and instruction today.
This event is co-sponsored by North Carolina Central University’s School of Education, we are (working to extend anti-racist education, Inc), and Ben & Jerry’s of Chapel Hill.
To register visit www.LetsTalkRacism.com. Email admin@weare-nc.org for questions.

Short-Term Suspension Clinic
2023-02-25 10:00 - 11:30 | EJA, 1214 E Lenoir St, Raleigh, NC, 27610, US
Join us to learn your rights and the ways you can advocate against an unfair short-term suspension. | Únase a nosotros para aprender acerca de sus derechos y cómo pueden abogar contra una suspensión injusta de corto plazo.

Inventor's Workshop - All Girls STEM Summer Camp
2022-07-25 10:00 - 15:00 | The Master’s Hands Christian Church, 4204 Lake Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27605, US
The Inventor’s Workshop All Girls STEM Summer Camp provides local girls with a summer enrichment program that offers experiments involving Chemistry, Physics, Biotechnology, and Forensics. Students design Mouse Trap Cars, Marshmallow Catapults, 2-Liter Bottle Rockets, and participate in a mock crime scene.

Along the Stream Environmental Summer Camp
2022-07-18 10:00 - 15:00 | The Master’s Hands Christian Church, 4204 Lake Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27604, US
The Along the Stream program is a STEM-Based hands-on training summer camp for both middle and high school students. Students will design and build a portable wastewater dam. Students will perform water chemistry testing, Field Biology on stream samples and aquatic insects, investigate local water pollution problems, and research topics related to clean water. Students will publish their findings in a local water journal.

How Public Education is the Foundation for a Multiracial Democracy
2022-07-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual, Zoom, New York, NY, 10022, US
This workshop, led by Race Forward’s H.E.A.L. Together team of James Haslam, Dennis Chin, and Cathy Albisa.
This workshop is part of a series of public trainings offered by Race Forward and NYU Metro Center in partnership with other H.E.A.L. (Honest Education Action & Leadership) Together partners. Learn more about H.E.A.L. Together and this series by visiting healtogether.org

How School Boards Work: Taking Leadership in Public Education and Serving on School Boards
2022-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual, Zoom, New York, NY, 10022, US
This workshop, led by Local Progress, will provide participants with skills needed to take leadership in public education and serving on school boards.
This workshop is part of a series of public trainings offered by Race Forward and NYU Metro Center in partnership with other H.E.A.L. (Honest Education Action & Leadership) Together partners. Learn more about H.E.A.L. Together and this series by visiting healtogether.org

Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum
2022-06-22 00:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, Virtual, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, US
“We are in a revolutionary situation, no matter how unpopular that word has become in this country,” writes James Baldwin in his 1963 touchstone speech, “A Talk to Teachers.” He continues, “The society in which we live is desperately menaced… from within. To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible—and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and hearts of young people—must be prepared to ‘go for broke’… you must understand that in the attempt to correct so many generations of bad faith and cruelty, when it is operating not only in the classroom but in society, you will meet the most fantastic, the most brutal, and the most determined resistance. There is no point in pretending that this won’t happen.”
Baldwin’s words challenge us to critical intervention in our current moment. How do our daily conversations about “crises” in schools and schooling (e.g., teacher shortage, attacks on critical race theory, the digital divide) work to distract us from a larger focus on what Baldwin described as the “generations of bad faith and cruelty” that distinguish the entire system?
What would it mean to understand the everyday practices of schools and schooling as in and of crisis? How is a “return to normal” still a return to a state of crisis? How might our work shift if we acknowledge that we are not heading toward a crisis, but we have already been existing in one? How might we develop and use our imaginative and creative capacities, not to try to legitimize, tweak, reform, or repackage current structures, but instead to reimagine education as a practice of freedom?
In this year’s free virtual CUESEF, our theme invites our panelists to think with us beyond current “crises”—about teacher shortages, anti-critical race theory policies, and COVID impacts—and into the long-standing struggle for a liberating education, locally and globally. Sessions map possibilities for study and change through examinations of teacher education locally and globally, school leadership, policy contexts, homeschooling, school-prison nexus, food and environmental justice, and more. We hope you will join us.
Read James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”: A Talk to Teachers – Zinn Education Project (zinnedproject.org).
The Art of CUESEF 2022
Obsidian (2021) by Morgan Overton
“Obsidian is a black linocut print of a Black woman,” says Overton. “It is aesthetically simple, yet her features are proud and prominent.”
Overton is a visual artist, Pittsburgh native, and alumna of the University of Pittsburgh (A&S ’16, SOCWRK ’20). Her work aims to amplify the history, humanity, and future of Black culture. She works in all mediums to vibrantly reclaim narratives that history has attempted to command. Overton’s work is grounded in the Nina Simone quote, “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times.” She believes that art is a powerful platform to disrupt the status quo and honor the resilience of her People. Her work has been featured across Greater Pittsburgh — notably at the Carnegie Museum of Art, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University — in addition to various social justice exhibits across the United States and St. Paul de Vence, France. Follow her work at www.mointhestudio.com.

Inventor's Saturday STEM Workshops
2022-06-18 10:00 - 13:00 | The Master’s Hands Christian Church, 4204 Lake Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27604, US
The Inventor’s Saturday STEM Workshop provides local boys & girls with a weekend enrichment program that offers a fun and exciting way to experience science. Students involved in the Saturday STEM Workshops will design balloon race cars, Marshmallow Catapults, build and launch a 2-liter water bottle rocket, and learn DNA Gel Electrophoresis.

Impact Early Education Summit
2022-06-18 08:00 - 16:30 | UNC Charlotte Student Union, 8845 Carver Road, Charlotte, NC, 28262, US
Join PBS North Carolina at our Impact Early Childhood Education Summit
The Impact Early Childhood Education Summit is a gathering of Early Childhood Education Professionals, parents, and caregivers aimed at celebrating and supporting those who are helping children, birth through third grade, to grow strong roots for a healthy foundation. What happens in the early years of a child’s life shapes the rest of their lives in important ways, but too often, those who are doing the work in those early years are overlooked in professional development and parenting support events.
There is no cost to attend! Teachers may use this Impact Summit for Continuing Education Units.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION:
UNC Charlotte Student Union
8845 Carver Road
Charlotte, NC 28262
About the Summit
PBS North Carolina NC DHHS Division of Childhood Development and Early Education and the NC Department of Public Instruction have come together to deliver a FREE full day conference for educators.
Discover new strategies for helping our youngest learners (birth to grade 3) grow strong roots in literacy and beyond at this daylong event for educators, parents and caregivers. Attend presentations and breakout sessions, network with colleagues and earn contact hour credits on topics ranging from art integration, educational media and STEM curriculum to equity in education and parenting.
The overarching theme of the summit is literacy. Content will be available in a hybrid format, with a maximum in-person attendance of 600 people. A select number of sessions will also offered as online content soon after the conference. Sessions will be 45 minutes in length.
Session tracks may include, but are not limited to:
Infant-Toddler
Preschool
Pre-Kindergarten
Kindergarten & First Grade
Second Grade & Third Grade
Partnering with Families
Administration and Leadership
Full Summit Agenda coming soon. Register today to reserve your spot and you will receive an email when the full agenda is released.

The Drive Summit
2022-06-17 09:00 - 16:00 | North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St., Greensboro, NC, 27411, US
Developing a Representative and Inclusive Vision for Education
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2022 DRIVE Summit
Friday, June 17th, 2022 | 9:00am – 4:00pm
North Carolina A&T State University | Greensboro, NC
