Core to the ethos of HomePlace is the idea that all educators and leaders should be Empowered EDvocates in the work towards the liberation and educational freedom of their students.
Professional Development
We provide leading-edge professional development trainings for adults that serve young people, in the new burgeoning area of civic literacy. Our PD’s help humanities educators and Youth Development Leaders to…
Improve staff capacity by saving time during live lesson planning and/or action planning and, as a certified P.D provider by MA DESE, providing P.D points.
Increase student engagement and excitement about social studies lessons using culturally sustaining pedagogical and anti-bias/anti-racist practices.
Cultivate emotional safety and pride in their civic impact/family and community engagement strategies.
Developing them into transformational Empowered EDvocates™.
Customizable PD Training Packages
Coaching
We coach adult leaders to help them embrace the inner activist in themselves and cultivate transformational skills for self and society.
Our coaching will help participants to…
Develop instructional and facilitative leadership skills
Build confidence in their ability to cultivate a democratic classroom or community space of belonging that engages in equitable socio-political discourse
Speaking Engagements
We also offer speaking engagements on topics related to developing critical social-political literacy, activism for social change, and anti-racist/anti-bias civic and community engagement.
Our goal is to inspire and motivate youth and/or adult audiences to recognize and understand the role that we all play in social justice-based civic engagement.
