Educator Institute for Equity and Justice

A Queer Endeavor’s annual Educator Institute for Equity and Justice in Education (EIEJ) is a 2-day professional learning experience aimed to support K-12 educators and youth-serving adults to learn and enact equity and justice-focused practices.  Sessions will focus on anti-racism, abolitionist teaching, gender and sexual diversity, bi/multilingualism, equity in rural communities, supporting first-generation and undocumented students, critical dis/ability studies, trauma, and healing-- among others and their intersections.

Save the date for this year's institute — July 20-21, 2023!

Learn more about the institute

Past events

  • June 2022: Rosé party: Pride month benefit at Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

  • November 2021: Five of the Educator Intitute for Equity and Justice team members spoke at CU Boulder's Ed Talks

  • July 2021: Our first Educator Intitute for Equity and Justice in Longmont, Colorado

  • July 2019: An evening with Andrea Gibson, a benefit show at Odell Brewing Co in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

  • June 2019: Two-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Boulder, Colorado

  • March 2019: One-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Greeley, Colorado

  • June 2019: Two-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Boulder, Colorado

AQE Publications & Features

If you want access to any of these articles, please contact us.

2023

2022

  • Meyer, E.J., Leonardi, B., & Keenan, H.B. (2022). Transgender students and policy in K-12 public schools: Acknowledging historical harms and taking steps toward a promising future. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved August 5, 2022 from http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/transgender

2021

  • Leonardi, B. & Staley, S. (2021). Cultivating a Queer mindset: How one elementary school teacher is ‘rattling common sense.’ Teachers College Record Volume 123 (7). https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 23784
  • Leonardi, B., & Moses, M. S. (2021). Understanding democratic education policy queerly: Toward a queer democratic framework. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(90). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5600
  • Leonardi, B., & Farley, A., Harsin Drager, E., & Gonzalez, J. (2021). Unpacking the T: Understanding the Diverse Experiences Trans Students Navigating Schools. Berkeley Review of Education, 10(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/B810245267. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10v091bm
  • Farley, A. N. & Leonardi, B. (2021). Beyond bathroom bills and the gender identity debate: Complicating the policy conversation about supporting trans students in schools. Educational Policy, 35(2), 274-303.