Join us on February 7 and 8, 2025 for the Leading Towards Justice Symposium

Join us on February 7 & 8, 2025 for the second annual Leading Towards Justice Symposium. Building upon last year’s gathering, the Symposium is an opportunity to (re)energize and remind ourselves as educators, educational and community leaders that how we teach and lead is consequential, especially in ways that are responsive to our current climate and conditions. From sociopolitical turmoil and global violence to budget deficits and school closures, we recognize that educators and leaders everywhere are facing enormous challenges. This is precisely why our teaching and leadership matters in cultivating joyful learning environments rooted in the brilliance of Black, Indigenous, Latiné, Asian American and Pacific Islander youth.

This year, the UW Just Ed Leadership Institute, the Leadership for Learning (L4L) Program, the Danforth Program, and Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy (EdFLP) are excited to partner with our Teacher Education Programs in thinking about expansive forms of educator leadership.

Training Details

• Friday, February 7th, 6-8:30pm including keynote, breakout, and reception
• Saturday, February 8th, 9am-4:30pm including concurrent sessions and shared opening and closing
• Participants may earn up to 8.5 equity or leadership clock hours for full participation. Clock hours will be awarded after the training concludes. Please allow 2 weeks for processing.

OSPI Clock Hour Standards

Cultural Competency, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Standards (CCDEI)

• Responsiveness: Educators employ the principles of cultural competence, diversity, equity, and inclusion to build connections with students, families, and other educators. Educators respond to others in ways that are asset-focused and flexible, changing their approach as the need arises. These are the roots of cultural competence and humility.
• Relationships: Educators form authentic relationships by understanding self, others, and the interactions between the two. Educators adapt their approaches to making connections based on continual reflection of their own identities, perspectives, and socialization. Interactions with others are grounded in respect and trust.
• Collaboration: Educators support learning partnerships by shifting from a focus on the individual to a focus on the collective “we.” Educators collaborate with a variety of roles inside and outside the school community, including calling others in and joining others for conversations and activities that build shared understanding and goals.

Administrators: Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL)

• Equity and Cultural Responsiveness: Effective educational leaders strive for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
• Community of Care and Support for Students: Effective educational leaders cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that promotes the academic success and well-being of each student.

Clock hours questions? Please contact registration at coereg@uw.edu.