The Education for Social Justice Conference is a space for youth, educators, and community members to build relationships and learn how to transform our schools towards justice and inclusiveness. We hosted our first conference in 2023.

Education for Social Justice Conference

Examples of Previous Workshops

  • Liberating Youth Voices for Authentic Partnership

  • Moving from PBIS-Based Compliance Behavior Systems to Restorative Values-Based Systems

  • Amplifying the Linguistic Resources of Multilingual Student Voices

  • Ditching Diet Culture at School: Building and Sustaining Learning Spaces Where Fat Bodies Fit

  • I Matter: Celebrating Difference Through Self-Portraits

  • Issues of Identity and Disability Pride: The Importance of Self-Advocacy

  • Queering Up History

  • Making Our Schools More Neurodiversity-Affirming

  • Take Care Project: Building Menstrual Equity in Vermont Schools & Communities

What makes our conference different?

  • Childcare is provided

  • Low-sensory spaces

  • Masks are required

  • All gender restrooms

  • Wheelchair access

  • Help with carpooling

  • a Care Team who’s available to help you process when harm and conflict arises

  • an abundance of art and poetry

  • screen print a shirt with a design created by a student and take it home with you

  • emphasis on community building

  • really delicious food

  • youth, disability, and BiPOC led

  • Rhiannon Kim and Alex Venet posing for a photo

  • Aden Haji in front of his presentation about emotional dysregulation and driving

  • Four youth and two adults building their dream classrooms using cardboard boxes and craft supplies

  • Five participants and the presenter, Sefakor, posing for a photo at her workshop on disability pride

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  • Rebel Diaz performing while some people are dancing and some are sitting and watching

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  • Two people helping folks check-in at the conference

  • Someone screen printing a shirt

  • two people coordinating the hybrid option for the conference

  • Kayla Loving, Alyssa Chen, and Dana Decker posing for a photo in front of White River Valley High School

  • Tables of organizations lined up with the Providence Student Union table in the front