Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant
~ ~ A Teacher Training Initiative ~ ~

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Introduction
This special grant award focuses on mentoring and training five ESL/ELL educators from CATESOL’s levels (K-12, Higher Education, Community College, Adult Education and Intensive English Programs) about best practices regarding racial and social justice, curriculum redesign, and implicit bias training.
Background
There are 5 million Emergent Bilinguals in the U.S.  Within the state of California, there are 1.1 million Emergent Bilinguals (see Appendix A).  In other words, California is home to one-fifth of the nation’s English Language Learners.  The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grant, in accord with the CATESOL mission, advocates for and promotes racial and social justice within and beyond the classrooms of ESL/ELL educators.

Grant Objectives
There are three (3) goals of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Grant.

Goal #1:
Recruit one CATESOL member from each of the five (5) levels:
  • K-12
  • Higher Education
  • Community College
  • Intensive English Programs
  • Adult Education

Goal #2:
  • Mentoring and training ESL/ELL educators about DEI best practices
  • Curating racial and social justice reading group and facilitating DEI workshops
  • Engaging in implicit bias training
  • Redesigning curriculum (racial and social justice)

Goal #3:
  • Assisting ESL/ELL educators with their poster/paper/panel submissions for the upcoming CATESOL state conference
  • Inspiring ESL/ELL educators to develop community partnerships focusing on DEI
  • Facilitating ESL/ELL educators with best practices for promoting DEI within their classroom, centers, schools, and districts
2021 Teacher Training Group
Anjani Sarma
Ouiza Weber
Lisa Bonnici
Rebecca Al Haider
Michelle Skowbo
Application Process
  1. Teachers who are interested will complete an expression of interest (EOI) form. Simply answer basic personal contact info and five questions. 
  2. The new EOI will be open in December 2021. The responses will be reviewed by the end of March by a small committee.
  3. The selection committee hopes to choose up to 5 teachers to participate in the 2021 calendar year.​
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Selected participants will receive/do
  1. sign an agreement for the applicable year,
  2. receive copies of racial and social justice textbook: Social Justice in English Language Teaching (TESOL publication) - $61 each,
  3. attend six online meetings per year for reading and discussion in a collaborative mentoring study group format with CATESOL DEI (March – September),
  4. join a study group, read from the text, and prepare for discussion; each participant creates an application project to implement in their own educational setting (using Google Meet/Zoom – 1 hour limit)
  5. present on how they used the book in instruction in their settings.  They would comprise a panel – one presentation – featured, depends on the conference program chairs, but CEF can recommend.

Participants will receive help from CATESOL DEI Taskforce/Committee with writing their proposal for the state conference and help with preparing their panel/poster session presentation. 

This grant award covers the costs for CATESOL State Conference registration fee paid by the Foundation and the assigned textbook.
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Total Grant Award of up to $300 per participant per year