LeadLearn 2023: Staying the Course is our commitment to continuing and building upon the equity and racial justice work CSMP LeadLearn has championed over the past three years. LeadLearn 2021 Leadership for Equity and LeadLearn 2022 Charting the Course anchored our professional learning in equity. However, there have been plenty of headwinds over the past few years that have blown us off course. These conditions may have drawn us away from our focus on equitable teaching. Now is the time for us to re-engage and prioritize our commitment to racial justice and what it means to lead and teach for equity and social justice. 

LeadLearn 2023: Staying the Course will provide CSMP leaders the opportunity to interrogate their own identities, biases, and  intersectionalities while reflecting on the following questions:

  • How do we support critical reflections and self-examination of our own cultural and racial identities to impact the education system?

  • How do we support teachers to develop culturally responsive pedagogy in their classrooms?

  • How do we design productive conversations with both teachers and administrators around race?

  • How can we support teachers to honor students’ identities, linguistic and cultural, in their academic growth?

  • How do we build teachers´capacity to support students to exercise their agency?

The California Subject Matter Project (CSMP) is a network of nine discipline-based projects that provide professional learning designed by K–12 and university educators, to improve student learning and literacy. Located across 90 regional sites throughout California, CSMP creates communities of practice that promote teaching, leadership and equity. Educators acquire tools to improve and enrich their teaching across subject areas. All CSMP resources for professional learning are aligned with California’s K–12 Standards and Frameworks, to help students enter and thrive in college and career.

With a network comprising the nine projects listed below, CSMP encompasses the course content represented in California’s K–12 standards and frameworks, and covers all of the academic disciplines required to meet college entrance (A-G) requirements.

  • The California Arts Project

  • California Global Education Project

  • California History-Social Science Project

  • California Mathematics Project

  • California Physical Education-Health Project

  • California Reading & Literature Project

  • California Science Project

  • California World Language Project

  • California Writing Project

For more information, visit the https://csmp.online/