Practice Areas

Educational Organizations and Municipalities Diversity Practice Overview

Leaders and professionals often have the best intentions in serving the needs of diverse school districts, schools, universities, colleges, students, municipalities and communities. However, even with the best intentions, misunderstandings and miscommunications can negatively impact their work. Thus, though hearts and minds are in the right place, actions may not be perceived by others to be aligned with good intentions and outcomes.

The Kaleidoscope Group has an extensive track record of helping organizations align their best intentions with effective impacts of their actions. We specialize in assisting leadership teams in working more effectively and more consciously in serving their diverse communities and constituencies. To this end, we have developed a set of “Inclusive Behaviors” and a “Systemic Diversity/Equity Journey Model” to guide and assess actions.

The Kaleidoscope Group is a full service diversity management and consulting firm that partners with your organization to fully understand your vision, mission, goals, assess your needs and help to overcome your challenges. Our leadership team has decades of professional and personal experience in successfully working with organizations to achieve their common goals with uncommon results. As a result of valuing differences, we have seen educational organizations and municipalities create optimal learning cultures where each person can achieve their maximum individual potential, decrease gaps in achievement, create more effective minority recruiting and retention processes, increase teamwork and trust within inclusive environments and expand their reputation in the diverse communities they serve and municipalities can create unified race and ethnic communities.


In the News

November 23, 2009
First-ever D. 202 Diversity Equity Advisory Council named
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June 25, 2009
Liberty Parent Diversity Group makes strides; helps to bridge achievement gap (more...)

December 29, 2008
Oswego East High School offers glimpse of multiracial future
Fewer racial issues take root amid rapid growth in far west suburbs
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Services and Solutions Provided
STRATEGIC CONSULTING

  • Diversity Vision & Mission Development
  • Organization Mission, Vision, Goals Review through a Diversity Lens
  • Diversity & Inclusion Cultural Audit
  • Diversity & Inclusion Plan
  • Diverse Representation Assistance
BOARD DEVELOPMENT
  • Board Diversity Team Building
  • Board & Community Interaction
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
  • Cultural Coaching
  • Championing Diversity
  • Diversity Dialogues/Fishbowl Experiences
  • Leading a Diverse Team
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION ASSESSMENTS
  • Surveys, Interviews, Focus Groups
  • Organizational, Departmental or Team Level
  • Other Stakeholder Group

DIVERSITY EDUCATION: English & Spanish

  • Diversity Awareness &/or Skills Training
  • Specific Diversity Dimensions Training
  • Managing Biases/Privilege
  • Diversity in Orientation Programs
  • Inclusive Behaviors Training
  • Setting Expectations & Feedback Training
  • Courageous Conversations About Race

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

  • Cultural Conflict Resolution
  • Cultural Team Building
  • Diversity Recruitment Education & Skills
  • Mentoring Across Lines of Difference

COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS

  • Community Diversity Audit
  • Expanding Community Involvement

ON-GOING FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

  • Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Councils
  • Diversity Communications
  • Train-the-Facilitator for Internal Staff

Sample Client List

  • Plainfield Community Consolidated School District No. 202
  • Illinois Association of School Boards
  • National Louis University
  • Oswego Community Unity School District 308
  • Moraine Valley Community College
  • CTU Online University
  • Lockport High School District 205
  • Village of Addison Unity Forums
  • City of Evanston

Contact Us

For more information about The Kaleidoscope Group's Educational Organizations and Municipality Practice Areas, contact Bea Young, Founder of The Kaleidoscope Group at 312.274.9011.



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