Our practice is grounded in high expectations for teachers and students. We honor and leverage the cultural, linguistic, and social assets that each student brings with them. We provide intentionally differentiated instruction and tiered systems of support and foster students’ sense of their voice, ownership of their learning, and empowerment.
Services Provided
- Equity Focused Strategic Planning
- Diverse Talent Recruitment and Retention
- Affinity Group Development
- Improvement Science
- Suspension Disproportionality strategic planning
- Restorative Discipline Practices
- Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Strategies
- CRE policies, practices, and procedures development
- Curriculum alignment, auditing, mapping, and design
- Leadership Coaching
- Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy
- Professional Development
- Current research and/or evidence-based practices
Clients Served
- Urban Collegiate Charter School, Schenectady, NY
The Learning Tree – Project Examples
Reframing School Discipline Using Proactive and Inclusive Strategies (2 Days)
- Reviewing and analyzing current classroom management, student referral, and suspension data; highlighting limitations to traditional beliefs, policies, practices, and procedures; workshopping a range of innovative alternatives using positive behavioral supports, restorative practices, and interpersonal relationship building.
Integrated Social Emotional Learning (1 Day)
- Highlighting best practices and evidence-based interventions regarding social emotional learning, modified intentionally to meet the greater needs of the community to pursue equity and cultural responsiveness.
Principles of Culturally Responsiveness and Identity Affirmation (3 Day)
- Developing a common language around equity, culturally responsive education, and identity-affirming practices; analyzing the difference between “mirror work” and “collective work”; learning and reflecting on promising practices and behaviors that foster identity-affirming experiences for students; determining actionable steps towards success
Effective Leadership Using a Racial Equity Lens (1 Day)
- Focusing on using the principles of effective leadership to close racial achievement and opportunity gaps for students; utilizing monitoring and walkthrough tools to gather data that will inform decision making through an equity-based lens; unpacking personal and professional beliefs and practices through a racial equity lens to better serve black and brown students