Facilitator's Guide to Courageous Conversations About Race

This facilitator's guide shows staff developers how to develop training for educators that examines the relationship between race and achievement and promotes academic parity.

Glenn E. Singleton is founder executive director of Pacific Educational Group, Inc. (PEG). He introduces PEG's Framework for Systemic Equity/Anti–Racism Transfor­mation to K–12 district administrators and higher education executive leadership. In 1995, Singleton developed Beyond Diversity, a nationally recognized training center aimed at helping educators identify and examine the powerful intersections of race and schooling. Singleton has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and has written numerous articles on the topics of equity, institutional racism, and leadership and staff development for national journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the 2003 recipient for the Eugene T. Carothers Human Relations Award for outstanding service in the fields of human rights and human relations; adjunct professor of Educational Leadership at San Jose State University; and founder of Foundation for a College Education of East Palo Alto, California. Singleton earned his master's degree from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Curtis Linton is a co-owner of The School Improvement Network where he is co-executive producer of The Video Journal of Education and TeachStream. He has spent the last 10 years documenting on video and in print the improvement efforts and best practices of the most suc­cessful schools and school systems across North America. Each year, he visits more than 100 classrooms and schools, capturing what they do to succeed with all students at the classroom, school, and system levels. Linton has written or produced dozens of award-winning video-based staff development programs. His areas of expertise include closing the achievement gap and improving minority student achievement, using data, leadership, effective staff development, brain research, differ­entiation, action research, and coaching. With the goal of delivering results-based professional development efficiently to large numbers of educators, he works with school systems to design comprehensive school improvement plans that integrate workshops, video, electronic media, and other resources. As a part of this, Linton conducts workshops on effective classroom practices. Linton also works extensively in the community, including serving on the Davis School District Equity Committee. Linton received his master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Southern California and currently resides with his wife, Melody, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have a son.