Cultures Connecting End of Year Wrap Up for 2025 Can you believe 2025 is already coming to a close? It's been a tumultuous year for many of us as we've experienced attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, harm to our communities, and the dismantling of rights. It's a lot to take in so for our very last newsletter issue for the year (there will only be one in December), we wanted to share how we've been managing through all of this, as well as highlights of 2025

In part 4 of Ilsa Govan's conversation with Delbert Richardson of The Unspoken Truths Traveling Museum, Mr. Richardson talks about the different ways he cultivates belonging when engaging with students. This is the final part of this conversation and parts 1-3 can be found below. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

In part 2 of our conversation with Delbert Richardson of The Unspoken Truths about culturally response practices for Black students, Mr. Richardson talks about what White students miss out on being disconnected from their culture. He also touches on the role saviorism plays in teacher-student relationships. If you missed part 1 of this conversation. Watch below. Sign up for our newsletter to get content like this and more in your inbox!

National Hispanic Heritage Month Starts Today National Hispanic Heritage Month starts today and last through October 15th. This month was...

Continuing the conversation about culturally responsive practices for Black students, our co-founder Ilsa Govan talks with Delbert...

Coming Up this Month: Learn to Speak Up with Shutting Down When having difficult conversations, do you... React impulsively instead of responding thoughtfully? Lash out or withdraw when the conversation becomes tense? Speak without listening? We've all been there. Engaging in tough conversations with family, friends, and colleagues requires intentional effort, skill, and practice. At our workshop, Speaking Up without Shutting Down: Tools for Hard Conversations, you'll learn t

We've been sharing this conversation between our co-founders Ilsa Govan and Caprice Hollins on culturally responsive practices for Black...

We are back with part 3 of a conversation between our co-founders Ilsa and Caprice on culturally responsive practices for Black students....

Advancing DEIBelonging Workshop Date Change As you know, we distribute our Diversity Calendar to help you plan your events and meetings...

In April, we shared part 1 of a conversation between our co-founders, Ilsa Govan and Dr. Caprice Hollins. Ilsa interviewed Caprice about...

Our co-founder Ilsa Govan interviewed Dr. Caprice Hollins on culturally responsive practices in the classroom to support Black students...

Share Your Wins with the Community As we’re navigating the current backlash against DEI and the barrage of harmful policies against...