Dr. Eytan Apter has been teaching social studies in middle and high school for twenty years and is currently teaching at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Washington, DC. He received his PhD from Fordham University focusing on teaching controversial issues in the classroom. He has worked with Facing History and Ourselves designing curricula and facilitating seminars for educators who are bringing conversations about race and racism into their classrooms and schools.

Target groups

Teachers, principals/division heads, those who oversee and implement curricula

Content areas

Design or offer professional development for faculty who are at different stages of racial equity work.
Collaborating with a team of educators to design and implement any of the following:

• Curricular approach
• Scope and sequence of racial equity work
• Classroom lessons
• Deciding what to teach when you can’t teach everything
• Anticipating student reactions: what works, what doesn’t, and what happens in the room in real life?

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Tonda Case has over 30 years of experience building diverse, welcoming, equitable communities and workplaces. Her strength and success lie in her ability to frame, elevate and hold central "the human" in the work of building dynamic praxis-based relationships, teams, communities, policies, curriculum and strategies.

Target groups

Faculty and leadership

Content areas

• Supporting Students of Color & Their Families: Welcoming, Nurturing & Belonging
• Creating Intersectional & Diverse Imagery, Stories, Experiences: Creating More Inclusive Curriculum
• Reframing Our Humanity: Speaking with Students, Parents & the School Community About Race
• Uncovering Bias: Faculty, Staff, Policies, Processes & Community

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Tamar Ghidalia (she/her) is a Sephardic Jew of Color educator who leads DEI/REDI work with 3W Consulting as well as with Edot of the Midwest. She currently is on the RAC (Religious Action Center) Racial Justice Campaign Leadership Team which looks at systemic change at the community, State and Federal levels.

Target groups

Families, students, faculty, community, board

Content areas

• How to structure a faculty community of practice
• The brain’s wiring and its implications for race, equity, and inclusion work.
• Building a mishkan (tabernacle) as a metaphor for diversity, equity, and inclusion work in a school. How do we recognize the tapestry of the community that wants to enter the mishkan? What are the contributions that can not be accepted?
• Board training: Why are we doing this work and what does access look like? Learn about white privilege, intersection between anti-Semitism and racism, while co-creating the school’s multiple strategies together with the professionals.

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With his background and experience as a former head of school and current or former trustee of NAIS, NBOA, and CSEE, Nishant now coaches and facilitates meaningful dialogue and discussions for leadership teams and boards of trustees interested in amplifying their attention and intentions on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Over the course of two decades, Nishant has led regional and national workshops like NAIS’s POCC and SDLC, keynoted conferences, and launched or facilitated sessions at leadership institutes like NAIS’s Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI) that empower marginalized groups to use their voice to lead and effect change in their schools.

Target groups

Leadership teams, heads of school, or heads together with trustees

Content Areas

• Strategy and prioritization of racial equity work to set your community up for success
• Build & sustain momentum when engaging the broader community
• Scaffold our next 6 months of racial equity work
• Troubleshoot, reframe, and/or reprioritize racial equity work

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Guided by the lessons of my personal racialized experience growing up with mixed heritage in the South, and informed by an intersectional perspective, as a Jewish woman of color, and an interdisciplinary background in Humanities, my goal is to prepare school communities to interact meaningfully with a diverse outside world by developing students equipped to challenge bias and injustice where they see it. With over twenty years as an educator in the fields of social science and literature and almost a decade of that in a Jewish day school, I am familiar with this arena and the unique challenges and opportunities it presents. With George Floyd's killing, the subsequent protest movement, and the reflecting that we're doing as a society, I find myself in the unique position of educating both adults and children about the history of race in America. I've made a point of shaping our curriculum to examine identity, explore diverse voices and perspectives, enhance cultural awareness, and highlight the parallels of racial supremacy in goal, application, and impact wherever and whenever it has reared its head.

Target groups

Teachers and broader staff/faculty, parents, community members

Content areas

• Help to create secure spaces for engagement outside the classroom, provide effective vocabulary and frameworks for community stakeholders to engage in meaningful and challenging discourse, and strengthen the home/school connection. I also facilitate community learning events. Sessions include: Parent/Staff/Faculty/Community Panels: Understanding the Community Cultural Wealth of Students and Families
• Because there are patterns of human behavior that recur in different eras or contexts, particularly in the United States, I can offer a dynamic approach to exploring the connection between historic events and present-day impact. Sessions include: The History of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Dynamic Tension of Jewish Response to the Call for Racial Justice, and Redlining and Economic Segregation
• Work with faculty to develop their own identity awareness, a better understanding of DEI(J) concepts, and a common language to use. Session include: Preparing to be an Ally Inside and Outside of the Workplace and Doing the Internal Work: Racial Identity Development

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Target Groups

Teachers, coaches, principals, and Heads of School

Content areas

A two-hour workshop for up to 20 participants on any of the following topics:

Curriculum for Social Justice: Examining What We Teach and How to Critique It

Curriculum influences our view of the world. If we want to build anti-racist schools, we must be willing to critique our standard content- and teach students to do the same. In this Virtual Workshop, participants will:

• Define the tools and approaches of anti-racist co-conspirators
• Explore real-life curricular examples and practice critique
• Build and get peer feedback on a plan to examine our own curricula

Anti-Racism Fundamentals: Building Understanding about Race in Mostly White Classrooms

For White students and teachers who want to be anti-racist co-conspirators, it can feel hard to know where to begin. But these challenging conversations can be handled with respect and zeal. In this Virtual Workshop, participants will:

• Define key concepts like bias, privilege, racial socialization, and critical history
• Explore the messages we send to students that perpetuate racist ideas
• Build and get peer feedback on a plan to build critical consciousness for yourself and your students

Fundamentals of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Moving from Awareness to Action

Culturally responsive teaching ensures all students feel safe, valued, and included in their class community. To make it replicable and sustainable requires a deep commitment to changing practice. In coaching or a Virtual Workshop, participants:

• Define culturally responsive teaching
• Explore their own biases and belief systems, as well as 3 key CRT-based classroom strategies
• Build and get feedback on their plan to commit to one CRT strategy and integrate it into their classrooms

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Target Groups

Teachers and administrators

Prizmah is happy to support up to $1,000 of a scope of work that you initiate with Facing History and Ourselves around Race and School Culture. Alternatively, you are welcome to choose one of the following options:

• Follow up meeting to think about school-wide implementation
• Continued email follow-up and support
• Either Holocaust and Human Behavior (print book) or Reconstruction (print book), up to 10 per school

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