Summer Education Workshop Frequently Asked Questions

The overall cost of attendance of the 4-day workshop (28 hours of professional development) represents our commitment to this work and does not reflect the total cost of the week.

Registration fees

$400 (individual)
$300 per person on a team (2 or more participants from one organization/school)

We would love for organizations, schools, education spaces, or school districts to pay for professional development costs to cover the workshop registration. However, if your organization, school, education space, or school district does not cover professional development costs, educators may be able to use our scholarship funds to offset the cost of attendance. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Reduced registration fees

$100 (individual)
$100 per person on a team (2 ore more participants from one organization/school)

Scholarships are available!

 

We invite educator teams made up of educators, school/organization leaders, and more to attend the program.

The team lead who is applying to SEW for the team can be any member of the team.

We invite teams of 2 or more to apply. We will review applications for people applying by themselves, but we encourage those folks to work with other educators in their schools and organizations to attend as a team.

Here is the information you need to gather to fill out the SEW application:

  • Lead contact’s information
  • Question 1: Briefly, what prior work, if any, have you and/or your team done on racial justice in your school? (100 words maximum)
  • Question 2: What goals do you have for yourself and/or your team in this workshop? (50 words maximum)
  • Each team member’s information: full name, email address, and position of the team member in the following format: Olivia Lewis, olivia.lewis@school.edu, 9th grade English teacher
  • Information about how your team will pay for attendance. We will send a quote/invoice once you are accepted.

SEW is held in June each year. In 2025, SEW will be held June 23-26, 2025, at the University of Illinois Chicago. Participants will be in sessions from 9am-4pm CT each day.

Illinois K-12 teachers will be able to receive CPDUs on completion of the workshop.

We would love educators from anywhere to attend the Summer Educator Workshop! If you are in Chicago, Bolingbrook, Niles, Detroit, Madison, Indianapolis, or anywhere else, you will benefit from this workshop.

If you are outside of the Chicagoland area and need hotels, we suggest the following. These are only suggestions in alphabetical order; we do not have a discount at them: