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Highlights from the Last Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute
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The menu of activities and experiences served up at Kaleidoscope's seventh workshop, held last December in Phoenix, was hearty, inspiring, and enriching (but low in "fat") and offered a variety that was anything but "the same old thing." Just what was ordered by the 38 educational leaders and potential leaders, all women of color, who were in attendance.
Among the highlights of the four-and-a-half-day workshop:
The emotional discussion about the significance of using and having used one's given name. Several participants, particularly those from Native American, Asian American, and Latina backgrounds shared their experiences of having their names changed by those in the mainstream culture so they would be easier to pronounce and remember. Participants made a conscious effort to use one another's given name.
Women of Color, Gloria G. Ybarra, chief counsel in the civil rights division of Arizona's State Attorney General's Office, and Hershela Horton, Arizona state representative provided motivational words as luncheon speakers. And in turn, their acknowledgment of the reaffirmation and restoration they each experienced through Kaleidoscope. The sense of renewal participants experienced as their status as professional women educators of color was recognized and celebrated.
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