"Facilitating Equitable Learning Environments" Webinar
Join us for an introduction to NAPE’s newest professional learning offering – “Facilitating Equitable Learning Environments“
Drawing upon the values and research behind Humanizing Pedagogy, critical consciousness, and effective equity professional learning, NAPE’s very own Dr. Lisa Williams and Dr. Michelle Brown will be highlighting NAPE’s newest professional learning offering, “Facilitating Equitable Learning Environments.”
Whether you are a committed educator in a K-12 or Postsecondary setting, or an educational stakeholder looking for an opportunity to deepen your tools to support equitable student outcomes, we invite you to join us for an exclusive webinar on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm (ET).
Learn about how this workshop brings educators into a reflective learning community:
- To deepen educators’ understanding of how equity and inequity operate at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels, and
- To equip educators to lead equitable transformation where all students can thrive.
Michelle Brown, PhD
Dr. Michelle Brown is an 8th grade science teacher and educational research consultant in State College, PA. She is a former post-doctoral STEM education researcher whose work centers on how to foster asset perspectives and practices and interrogate deficit perspectives with teachers through science sensemaking and reflection. Michelle has worked with NAPE on curriculum projects including self-efficacy, growth mindset, problem-based learning, and culturally responsive teaching, and she has managed NAPE’s equity projects with FIRST Robotics and Toyota Manufacturing. Previously, she taught middle and high school science for 8 years in Austin, TX and in Brooklyn, NY and worked as a STEM instructional coach for two years in Brooklyn. She holds a M.Ed. in Science Education from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in Science Education from Penn State University.
Lisa Williams, EdD
Dr. Lisa Williams is a national expert on topics of equity and access in public education. She currently serves as the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Y in Central Maryland. She has served as Chief Equity Officer for the Fairfax County Schools as well as Executive Director for Equity and Cultural Proficiency in Baltimore County Public Schools. Dr. Williams has served as a Subject Matter Expert with the United States Department of Education Department of Career, Technical, and Adult Education division related to equitable access in STEM/CTE. She is co-author of two books, When Treating all the Kids the Same is the Real Problem: Educational Leadership and the 21st Century Dilemma of Difference and Humanity Over Comfort: How You Confront Systemic Racism Head On both published by Corwin Press. She is presently collaborating with teacher leaders in Cologne, Germany to publish an article on Social Justice in Education (2022). Dr. Williams is the proud mom of a son, Andrew, who is the daily inspiration for her work for all children. Her lived experience and scholarship on issues of equity and access shapes her lens.
