DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, BELONGING

DEIB Trainings and Consultations

Verge Services can work with your school in stand-alone workshops or ongoing trainings or consultations. Sample sessions include the following:
  • Gender and Sexuality Diversity basics, ensuring that the team has a shared language and baseline understanding
  • Human-centered design task focused on once challenge your team is facing
  • Craft or revise an anti-discrimination statement
  • Design inclusive language, policies, and practices that are specific to the context of your school
  • Working alongside teachers to review, assess revise, and expand curriculum to reflect LGBTQ+ history, contributions, and representation
  • Developing lesson content and strategies related to diverse identities and expressions
  • Three-part coordinated series with sessions for students, faculty/staff, and parents/guardians
  • Crafting a diversity plan for your school that reflects an understanding of the importance of intersectionality and student experience, rather than numbers or statistics, and is geared toward action rather than mere aspiration.