2022-2023 Community Education Series
Learn, Explore, Be Inspired
The Epiphany School Community Education Series offers an annual slate of diverse educational opportunities for the adults in our school community—parents/guardians, grandparents, friends, and neighbors.
In keeping with our strategic plan, the Epiphany School Community Education Series enhances our authentic and inclusive community by welcoming diverse thought, sharing our expanded vision and mission, and providing creative and engaging educational opportunities for our community. We welcome ideas for future programming and we will continue to collaborate with neighboring schools and the Epiphany Parent Council to develop and offer events that meet our community’s interests and needs.
2022/2023 Series:
- January 19, from 6:00-7:15 pm: Dr. Yuria Celidwen: Healing & Wholeness as Love, Power, and Resistance. Please RSVP to attend and receive Zoom link. (Part of our Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series, in partnership with neighboring independent schools, additional details can be found here).
ABOUT THIS EVENT: In community, we pause, we open, we nourish, and we become. We pay attention, and all we hear is urgency. The challenges are innumerable, but also infinite are the opportunities. Our grief is daunting, but also heartening is our compassion. This historical moment encourages us to reflect, make sense of, and participate in the collective transformation expected from the human world today. Contemplative living reminds us that intentional action requires mindful assessment of the causes and conditions that have shaped who and where we are today. I suggest three contemplative insights that are crucial to advance our shared journey towards collaborative and restorative solutions: the reckoning of the harm caused by human othering of self, others, and the Earth; a sense of ecological belonging that engenders a feeling of being part of an ever-expansive circle of care and concern for Earth systems and communities; and the realization of a collective path of spiritual becoming honoring life on Mother Earth.
- *NEW DATE*, March 2, from 7:00-8:30 pm (on campus in the Great Hall; adults only):
ABOUT THIS EVENT: SEL Night, more info coming soon!
- March 9, from 6:00-7:15 pm: LeDerick Horne: Disability, Race, and Identity. Please RSVP to attend and receive Zoom link. (Part of our Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series, in partnership with neighboring independent schools, additional details can be found here).
ABOUT THIS EVENT: Within this presentation LeDerick Horne will draw from the book “Empowering. Students with Hidden Disabilities: A Path to Pride and Success.” LeDerick will share his own experience navigating special education classes and will give advice to help all students develop positive identities as people with disabilities. Strategies to help students reach their transition goals will be provided. The audience will also explore the intersectionality of disability, race, and identity to help them create more inclusive schools and communities. LeDerick’s personal story and poetry will also be shared during this talk.
Participants will be able to:
- List several evidence-based practices and strategies which can empower students with disabilities to reach their transition goals.
- Describe the importance of disability identity to reduce stigma and improve student engagement and disability pride.
- Address many of the challenges facing students with disabilities from communities of color to help service providers and families build a more equitable learning environment.
- List sources of mentors and role modelsto help students build a meaningful connection to the disability community.
- March 15 from 8:30-9:30 am (on campus in the Great Hall):
ABOUT THIS EVENT: Heather Clark on culture and belonging at school, more info coming soon
- April 27, from 5-7:00 pm (on campus, parents, and children):
ABOUT THIS EVENT: STEM Night, more info coming soon!
- May 4, from 6:00-7:15 pm: Kimberlee Williams: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Showing Up as a Safe Space in Our Schools. Please RSVP to attend and receive Zoom link. (Part of our Equity & Inclusion Virtual Speaker Series, in partnership with neighboring independent schools, additional details can be found here).
ABOUT THIS EVENT: Kimberlee Williams, Author of Dear White Woman, Please Come Home, is a humanist first and believes that racism can be dismantled through authentic relationship building where a mirror is held up to interrogate one's assumptions, beliefs, behaviors, and patterns of interactions. With a shift in any and all of the above as authentic relationships dive beneath the surface, the power and harm caused by the legacy of racism can be dismantled.