Webinar: Institutionalized Racism and Inequity: 'Turning the Mirror Inward' In Your District
Channel: FixSchool Discipline
Date: 2015-04-23

Racial inequity and institutionalized racism manifest across systems, including in education, juvenile justice, health, and child welfare. When Joyce James became the head of the State of Texas’s Child Protective Services Program, she introduced a model to examine and address the disproportionate number of African American and Native American children in the Texas Foster Care System. The model included the examination of disproportionality in other systems, including education.

Findings revealed that disproportionality existed in all systems for the same populations including in suspensions and dropout rates in the education system. The Texas Model resulted in a reduction in disproportionality in child welfare for African Americans and Native Americans and overall. The model has proven to be  effective in helping other systems understand the role of race and institutionalized racism as an underlying factor of disproportionality in all systems. 

In this webinar, Ms. James, CEO and lead consultant of Joyce James Consulting, shares this model approach to addressing the underlying cause of racial inequities across all systems, including in education.  Learn about how these principles can be applied to reduce bias and inequities in your school.