“Invigorating, purposeful, and necessary. Feeling empowered to get to work.”

- Attendee, 3-Day Anti-Bias and Social Justice Institute

Our Impact

Roots ConnectED uses a research-based Anti-Bias Education Framework to develop curriculum, culture, and learning environments centered in equity and justice. Our framework grew out of experiences leading in anti-bias classrooms and seeing its tools in action. Today it works in process with our Tree of Love; together forming a foundation to all our professional development.

What Participants Are Saying:

Of our Institute and Workshop participants:

  • 90% of Institute participants agreed the experience was engaging, the resources were helpful, and they would recommend it to a colleague

  • 100% of workshop participants agreed

Of our Coaching clients:

  • 93% confirmed our coaching has shifted both mindset and practice

  • 100% stated that with us they have made specific practice and/or curriculum changes

What We Have Learned:

  • Connecting Counts: a human-centered approach deepens trust, learning, and collective transformation

  • Commitment Matters: educators who commit to ongoing personal work are best able to shift practice

  • Collaboration is Key: schools with structures that support collaboration are more likely to facilitate reflection and growth inclusive of multiple perspectives

  • Process Over Product: vision planning with a process focus supports sustainable change

  • Learning Cycle: teachers need opportunities to observe and be observed

Testimonials

For further insight into the impact of our work, we encourage you to watch the testimonials below. Hear the experience and better understand the outcome.

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Working with schools, districts, networks, and organizations nationwide

Anti-Bias Education Impact: Student Reflections

A look at how Community Roots, the Roots ConnectED Learning Site, helped one individual center humanity and empathy when getting to know others.


Profound reflections shared from a few students of our learning site, showcasing the impact an anti-bias education can have on students.

Coaching Impact: Tailored School Site Support

The Director of English Language Arts at DC Prep shares her experience.

Principal of the Uptown Campus of the International School of Louisiana shares her experience over the years working with Roots ConnectED and developing their school’s Anti-Bias curriculum.

Executive Director Aqua Stovall, at SELF NOLA, shares how our coaching collaboration continues to support herself and her staff in implementing an anti-bias framework.

International School of Louisiana’s Jonathan Leggett and Rosa Alvarado share their experience Coaching with Roots ConnectED.

Educational Institutes Impact: Intimate, Facilitated, Group Learning

This Principal shares their experience at our Inclusive Practices Institute, and describes what makes a Roots ConnectED professional development experience stand out from the others.

One school leader’s takeaways from the Roots ConnectED Inclusive Practices Institute. Hear the new perspectives they gained around Universal Design for Learning.

One Roots ConnectED Inclusive Practices Institute participant shares how the Institute gave them a new understanding of Universal Design for Learning, and left them feeling empowered.

One Roots ConnectED Anti-Bias Culture and Curriculum Institute participant shares personal reflections on the collaborative spirit of the Institute, and more.

Roots ConnectED Institute participant shares his experience at the 3-Day Roots ConnectED New Leaders Institute.

Educator Workshop Impact: Focused Online Professional Development

Roots ConnectED Educator Workshop participant shares what she believes makes our organization unique, and impactful.

Roots ConnectED Educator Workshop participant shares reflections on the inspiring and supportive environment our workshops provide.

Family Workshop Impact: Facilitating At-Home Conversations

Roots ConnectED Family Workshop Participant describes her experience attending the Family Workshop ‘Reading Books With My Kids Using a Critical Literacy Lens’.

Roots ConnectED Family Workshop Participant describes her experience attending the Family Workshop ‘Reading Books With My Kids Using a Critical Literacy Lens’.