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DEI Leadership Lab:
Building Communities
of Belonging
APRIL 22 – 24, 2025
MONTGOMERY, AL
Accelerating the Work of Leadership, Inclusion
and Belonging
This three-day program offers boarding school leaders, faculty and staff a transformative experience balancing immersive learning at the Equal Justice Initiative sites with workshops and coaching focused on building communities of belonging. Participants are encouraged to bring an idea, project or initiative to develop and refine during the laboratory component of the workshop.
In alignment with TABS’ strategic priorities to develop boarding school leaders and professionals and build communities of belonging, TABS looks forward to hosting a professional learning program for DEI leaders and practitioners and their collaborating school leaders at the Legacy Museum and National Memorial to Peace and Justice of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama.
The convening of educator leaders will focus on understanding the history of the slave trade, racial terrorism, Jim Crow South, and mass incarceration and reflecting on ways in which these insights inspire and inform efforts to build cultures, communities and spaces of equity, justice, belonging, and rememberance in our own campuses.
On the first day of the event, participants will experience the Legacy Museum and visit the Memorial. On the second day, attendees will participate in full group and small group discussions and work sessions focused on continuing this work as a cohort and within their school communities.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Visit and experience the Legacy Museum and Legacy Memorial with fellow boarding school leaders to enhance understanding of the history of the slave trade, racial terrorism, Jim Crow South, and mass incarceration in North America
- Examine the significance of place and space in understanding, representing, and memorializing history and legacy
- With feedback from facilitators and fellow attendees, develop and refine your school’s approach to building communities of belonging.
- Build productive and authentic relationships within school leadership teams and cultivate connections across the boarding school industry
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
- Leaders in Diversity, Inclusivity and Belonging
- Heads of School
- Assistant and Associate Heads and Senior Leaders
- Boarding School Faculty and Staff
Schedule Subject to Change
TUESDAY, APRIL 22
3:00 – 5:00pm
Arrival and Registration
5:00pm
Welcome and Opening Session
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23
8:00am
Morning Session and Legacy Museum Visit
11:30am
Lunch
1:00pm
Afternoon Session and Legacy Memorial Visit
6:00pm
Dinner with friends and colleagues or on your own
THURSDAY, APRIL 24
8:00am
Morning Session and Site Visit
12:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm
Team Presentations and Reflections
3:00pm
Program Concludes
EARLY BIRD
MEMBER
TEAM OF TWO
$
1,575
PER PERSON
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Save when you register by the early bird deadline, DATE HERE
MEMBER
TEAM
$
1,500
PER PERSON
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Save even more when you
register a team of two or more
by JANUARY 13
EARLY BIRD
NON-MEMBER
INDIVIDUAL
$
2,175
PER PERSON
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Save when you register by the early bird deadline, DATE HERE
NON-MEMBER
TEAM OF TWO
$
1,875
PER PERSON
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Save when you register by the early bird deadline, DATE HERE
Trilogy Hotel Montgomery, Autograph Collection
116 Coosa Street
Montgomery, Alabama
USA, 36104
Montgomery, Alabama
USA, 36104
Montgomery Regional Airport
Distance from Hotel: 8.8 Miles
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
Distance from Hotel: 95.8 Miles
Program attendees will stay together at the Trilogy Hotel Montgomery, Autograph Collection, within walking distance to the Equal Justice Initiative sites, where conversations from the program will spill over to provide additional inspiration and collaboration. The block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the reduced rate of $219. Reservations can be made HERE.
Program registration will take place in the hotel lobby on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 22.
Book your reservations early, given that April is busy in Montgomery. Rooms will be available until March 22, 2025, or until the room block is sold out. If you have any challenges or questions, please contact Emily at EWilliams@TABS.org.
Transportation
The Trilogy Hotel Montgomery, Autograph Collection is within walking distance to the Equal Justice Initiatives Sites and workshop venue.
Emily Williams
Please contact Emily Williams if you encounter any problems reserving a room.
Facilitator
Jessy Molina
Founder, Molina Consulting
Jessy Molina, a nationally recognized facilitator, has trained thousands of people at schools, colleges and universities, and beyond to explore the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, gender identity, religion, culture and more, recognize and dismantle bias, and begin building a more just world. Jessy has developed a model of facilitated dialogue that builds understanding and connection between people and communities who are divided by tension, conflict, and misunderstanding, and has used it to facilitate dialogue in communities across the country. In recent years, Jessy Molina served as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice at Friends School of Baltimore. Prior to working at Friends, Jessy served as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Garrison Forest School.
GET IN TOUCH WITH TABS
- TABS@TABS.org
- 828.258.5354
- One North Pack Square, Suite 301, Asheville NC 28801, USA
