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Welcome to Hope & Healing! Whether you have been on a journey to explore how to advance racial equity for multiple years, or if this is your first step, our goal is to support you to build a common foundation - together. 

Modules

In-person  event

Bend The Arc Leadership Summit

JUNE 30 - JULY 2, 2025  |  CHICAGO, IL

For the first time in the history of The Equity Imperative, we are hosting our first Bend the Arc Leadership Summit in June 2025! This intimate three-day experience in Chicago is designed for education leaders like you—principals, district leaders, program directors, and statewide coordinators—who are committed to advancing equity and transforming student outcomes.

With only 50 participant spots available, this summit offers a highly personalized, engaging, and energizing opportunity to grapple with pressing educational challenges and co-create meaningful solutions.
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Instructional Practices That Build Belonging

Focuses on culturally responsive instructional practices that cultivate independent learners across the content areas and grade-levels
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Culture, Climate, and Connection Strategies that Strengthen Belonging

Unpacks developmentally appropriate transformative social-emotional learning strategies that foster healing-centered student agency across the grade levels
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Family Engagement Approaches that Expand Belonging

Explores creative ways to activate meaningful partnerships with families that center efforts toward empowerment and collaboration

The Equity Imperative

At The Equity Imperative, we envision the day when all organizations become sanctuary sites for equity. Our goal is to equip practitioners to make advancing racial equity the core of their everyday work so that designed initiatives live beyond our partnership. We collaborate with our partners to identify racial equity problems, diagnose their causes, and design context-driven systemic solutions.