Partnering with Afrika Afeni Mills - Centering Humanity: Connecting Across Differences to Create Generative Instructional Spaces

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Afrika Afeni Mills is the founder and CEO of Continental Drift, LLC, an Education Consultant and author of Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students. She works with colleagues, teachers, coaches, administrators, and individuals to transform practices. Afrika has been featured on podcasts, blogs, delivered keynote addresses, and facilitated sessions at conferences across the United States. You can watch her TED-Ed Talk, Four Ways to Have Healthy Conversations About Race here. The talk is at over 1 million views!

Afrika believes that all educators can be motivated, engaged, dynamic practitioners and leaders when provided with the support needed to create student-centered, culturally responsive learning environments that inspire wonder and creativity and nurture diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion.

Afrika holds an M.Ed. in Elementary Teaching from the Boston College Lynch School of Education where she graduated first in her class, and is also currently an Adjunct Instructor. Afrika has spent more than 20 years working in and with schools as an educator, teacher developer and administrator.

If your school, district, organization, or company would like to partner with Afrika as a facilitator of professional learning experiences for you and/or your staff, please fill out this form.

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Name: *

Name of School/District/Organization/Company: *

City and State where your school/district/organization/company is located: *

Why are you hoping to partner with Afrika? *

How are you hoping to partner with Afrika? *

Keynote address

Workshop

Workshop series

Masterclass

Coaching

Facilitated Book Study

Other:

If you indicated that you're looking for coaching, please indicate who you are seeking coaching for:

Individual teachers/staff

Administrators/Coaches

A grade level team

A Professional Learning Community

A School Committee (i.e. Diversity, Equity , and Inclusion Committee)

Other:

Do you have funds allocated for this work? *

Yes

Other:

How many copies of Open Windows, Open Minds will you be purchasing as part of this experience? *

Has your staff already started antibias/antiracist/culturally responsive and sustaining/pro-human work? *

Yes

Other:

If so, what is the nature of that work? *

If not, what work have you done to prepare yourself and your staff for this work?

Will your staff opt in to this learning experience or will their participation be required? *

Opt-in

Required

Other:

Has your state passed legislation (or are there pending legislative efforts) banning antibias, antiracist learning experiences? *

Yes

Other:

Has your school/district/organization/company faced resistance to antibias, antiracist work? *

Yes

Other:

If yes, what is the nature of that resistance?

If yes, how has your school/district/organization/company responded to the resistance?

If there are specific antibias, antiracist concepts/terms/language that you would request to be excluded from/avoided in this work, please list them here, and the rationale for the exclusion.

What are your intended outcomes for this work? *

How will you measure the success of this work? *

What systems do you have in place to sustain this work? *

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