CREED Academy is an opportunity to strengthen equity-based skills and develop local leadership and advocacy through web-based and asynchronous professional development experiences for all North Carolina public school supporters.
With CREED's commitment to changing the trajectory for the more than one-million students in our public school education system, we understand the much-needed transformation required to create competence and confidence in an anti-racist approach to equity.
CREED Academy courses cover specific topics related to building equitable practices, inclusive curriculum, and critical consciousness for educators, advocates, and stakeholders.
CREED Academy consists of two distinct learning paths:
CREED Academy 101 is an opportunity to develop local leadership and advocacy through web-based professional development experiences for all North Carolina public school stakeholders. These asynchronous sessions are designed around specific topics related to building critical consciousness for educators and stakeholders.
Course Objectives:
After this course participants will be able to:
Build language together and describe the ongoing historical struggle for education equity
Reflect on personal identity and cultural identities of North Carolina's students
Identify pedagogical practices proven effective with minoritized groups
Define and pinpoint how to apply abolitionist teaching and culturally affirming practices
Explain what we mean by Understanding Hidden Data and Policy connections
Develop an outline for an Equity Plan
Explore additional resources (books, movies, dashboards, scholarly articles, and more)
In our newly updated asynchronous course, CREED Academy 201, participants will identify key steps and use tools to develop action plans for equity-based projects in their classrooms or districts.
Course objectives:
Gain understanding of the roles and types of research necessary to execute equity-based projects
Utilize various strategies to map resources, attitudes, systems and assets to create action plans
Draft a preliminary equity action plan
Note: We STRONGLY recommend completing CREED Academy 101 before enrolling in 201