Institutional Learning

Align Your Practices with Your Values

Organizational culture requires tending, and culture shift takes place through a dynamic mix of inner work, professional development, policy review, and community input. We offer inspiring classes, courses, and workshops; support to create policies that close the gap between what you say and what you do; and practical tools and analysis to help you hear and understand what community members need from your organization.

Institutional Learning Services

  • We offer a variety of Community Classes to build cross-community connections and offer specialized learning. We have offered stand-alone 1-hour seminars, as well as intentional cohorts lasting up to 10 months. Topics have included Cultural Appreciation, Teacher Onboarding and Mentoring, Inclusive Student Assessment, Healing and Hope Across Difference (focused on cross-movement solidarity), and Pedagogical Storytelling for Early Childhood.

    To register, visit our Community Classes page.

  • To build community, sharpen skills, and add to your collective toolkit, we offer an online course called Fulfilling Our Promise, designed to acquaint participants with the landscape of inclusion and belonging and deepen the potential for transformation in their communities.

    With 9 modules of content, including a facilitator module, working through the course over at least a full school year provides about 2 months for each module to be completed, discussed, and integrated by participants (including faculty, staff, Board, and parent leadership).

  • Our most popular policy offering is a Bias Incident Protocol that helps you define, track, resolve, and work to reduce incidents of bias in your organization. Other policy review and development is available as well, in the areas of Admissions/Enrollment, Board recruitment and retention, Communications, Governance, HR (including employee recruitment and retention), Marketing, school committees, and more.

  • We offer a core arc of seven two-hour workshops, developed for schools and customizable for other kinds of organizations. Workshops are held in person or online, or a mix of the two. We also offer customized workshops, designed in collaboration with you to meet your unique needs.

  • Our Student Leadership Conferences, pioneered in the 1990s by educational equity expert and Alma Partners co-founder Randolph Carter, create a space where student leaders can dialogue honestly across differences and adult supporters can model engaged, responsive leadership for youth participants. Conferences build students’ confidence, sense of belonging, facilitation skills, and leadership capacity and create cross-school networks that empower youth and center their voices.