When teams come to Villa Lindo they are provided with tools and strategies to maximize the organization's intended impact. Innovative activities can be designed to build camaraderie and focus. The Villa Lindo experience is intertwined with tips from the house eco chef on eating healthy and how best to avoid the pitfalls associated with taking unhealthy shortcuts that can put leaders' health and well-being at risk.

 

Three DIMENSIONS Critical to Achieving Equitable Outcomes for All Students

 

Leadership Health

  • Learn and practice strategies for dealing with leadership stress that comes with equity work.

 

  • Support Equity Champions develop the skill, will and way forward by promoting effective strategies for equity and leadership health.


Race and Class

  • Accelerate the commitment to the quantifiable goals and outcomes in schools or organizations striving to close the achievement gap (i,e., achieving Equity of Outcomes for all students).

 

  • Use effective instructional practices that create conditions for thriving, conscious learning systems that eliminate the achievement gap.


Policy Advocacy

  • Understanding and informing educators on critical issues related to the elimination of the achievement gap. (i.e., high school graduation diploma systems, planning and tracking practices, school board advocacy, wellness and food justice).