Events

The Equity Assistance Center–South at SEF advises, assists, and serves our public education systems with addressing issues of equity in the areas of race, national origin, sex, and religion, to promote educational access and opportunity for all students.

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Events

The Educational Justice Professional Learning Series

This EAC-South series of free professional development events provides opportunities for discussion, frameworks, strategies, and promising practices to improve and monitor student success by improving educational equity for all students.

Topics, dates, and links to register for our upcoming series will be available soon. Find recordings of our past webinars below.

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Webinar

February 26, 2024

2 PM ET

In this webinar, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth will present from his new book, “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights.”

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn’t join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement. Learn more

Building and Developing Cultural Proficiency and Understanding

The Educational Justice Professional Learning Series Session 2
Webinar
Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. ET

Recording

Building Positive Relationships Through Asset-Based Thinking

The Educational Justice Professional Learning Series Session 3
Webinar
Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, 2 to 3 p.m. ET

Recording

Past events:

The Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series:

This EAC-South series of free professional development events provides opportunities for discussion, and frameworks, strategies, and promising practices to improve and monitor student success by strengthening educational opportunities for all students.

This year’s series covered topics such as K-12 learning and engagement, educational attainment, the impact of racial, ethnic, and economic segregation, equitable access to high-quality curricula and instruction, and equitable access to supportive school and classroom environments.