CFEE participants leave with greater insight into the effects of power and privilege on students and adults in schools, and skills to coach and facilitate leadership development and school transformation. Coaching for Educational Equity will be examined through topics that include:

• Developing skills and practices for culturally proficient coaching in schools and districts.
• Coaching instructional leadership development.
• Coaching the development of professional learning communities focused on equity.
• Recognizing and working with issues of emotional and social intelligence.

Why Attend The CFEE Institute?
In order to seriously address issues of educational equity, school coaches must depart from "business as usual." This Institute provides precious space, materials, and experienced coaches to support participants to critically reflect upon what it means to take up equity work as a school coach in one's local context in a thoughtful, provocative, and effective ways.

School coaches, coach leaders, other support providers or administrators may find reasons for attending among the following questions:

• Do you find it challenging to facilitate productive dialogue when issues of equity are raised in your school community?
• Do you have a clear coaching 'theory of action' for how to identify and eliminate policies, practices and behaviors resulting from an inequitable public school system?
• Are you frustrated with the lack of progress your school community has made building bridges across difference, despite your commitment to do so?
• Do you want to gain skills and practices for effectively coaching the development of leaders who are committed and able to take on issues of equity in their local context?
• Do you think it would be beneficial for you to learn and share with colleagues locally and from around the country about coaching for educational equity?

Participants will leave with:

• Increased self-awareness and knowledge about issues of systemic oppression, power and privilege.
• Practical methods for improving relational trust within the school and community.
• Skills to coach and facilitate leadership development and school change.
• Strategies for engaging in deeper dialogue about culturally responsive pedagogy, student achievement and equity in the classroom.

Introduction to Coaching For Educational Equity - June 25-27, 2008
Intended for new coaches or administrators new to coaching. Assumes no prior knowledge of coaching practice. Emphasis on general coaching protocols.

Advanced Coaching For Educational Equity - August 6-8, 2008
For those with some coaching background, with more emphasis on coaching for educational equity.

Sample Materials

• Coaching for Educational Equity: The BayCES Coaching Framework.
• The 10 Beliefs of BayCES Coaching.
• Standing in the "Tragic Gap" by Rachel Boechler, Assistant Professor, Cardinal Stritch University.
• Changing the Discourse in Schools by Eugene Eubanks, Ralph Parish, and Dianne Smith.
• Read a newsletter article about the 2007-8 CFEE Institute here.

Past CFEE participants say:
"I have no doubt that the ideas I've worked through here will have immediate relevance and will help me in my coaching this year - they actually have already begun to help!"

"I wish I had been exposed to BayCES sooner ... I've been a high school teacher for eight years, and if I had been coached by someone who followed your model, I could have been a much better, much more confident teacher."

Institute Location and Logistics
The Institutes will both be held at the Preservation Park conference center in Downtown Oakland. Preservation Park is located at 1233 Preservation Park Way (at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and 13th). Hotel accommodations can be arranged by contacting Will @ bayces.org.

Registration and Cost
The Institute costs $1,000 per registrant, which includes breakfast and lunch each day but does not include accommodation. To register online, click here. For paper registration or any other questions please contact Will (at) BayCES.org or call (510) 208-0160.