Blink Strategic Consulting designs equity and inclusion into our processes to support communities to enact, integrate and own DEI in institutional design and their everyday practice. Every engagement is grounded in your mission and core values, and strategic framing, to ensure the integrity, sustainability and priority of DEI initiatives and work. Blink asks schools and organizations to strive not just for what they can realistically achieve, but what is aspirational and impactful for all—not just some—in their communities.
Blink provides a variety of services to its clients, focusing on strategically advancing DEI, including:
DEI auditing including diversity, equity and inclusion assessment and capacity-building for ongoing, internal auditing
Strategic Planning: toward “achievable, aspirational and impactful” DEI goals, and integrating DEI in all strategic planning
DEI fluency rubrics: design, implementation and assessment
DEI curriculum inventories and scope and sequencing
Curriculum design and assessment
Education: with governance (boards), administration, faculty, staff, families and students to provide foundational, applied and more advanced understandings, language, skills and tools
Integrated implementation of DEI programs, policies and initiatives
Keynoting
Professional growth rubrics: design and implementation
Workshops for faculty, staff, administration, students, parents/guardians, boards and other volunteer leaders
Crisis response and proactive planning for inclusive and equitable engagement in and beyond the classroom
Blending research, practice, school culture and collective experience, Blink invites a critical and compassionate rethinking of what we mean, whom we include and how we engage diversity in education and community.
Please contact Blink for information on fees.
Curriculum
In addition to curricular audits and curricular design consultation and workshops for educators, Blink develops innovative curricula and models these lessons and tools in workshops. Designed to provoke critical and compassionate thinking to support discernment in everyday “front and backstage” action (Goffman, 1956), Blink’s curricula reflect the philosophy that living in a diverse world begins with self-understanding and the language to frame and impact our experiences. Sample curricula-in-action with students include:
“Can we talk about political correctness?”
“Ever wonder how to talk about identity and diversity? (Is it OK to say… what does it mean when people say… and why can’t you say… or can you?)
“Just kidding! What’s funny in joking about identity and diversity… and what’s not”
What to say when… Practicing having difficult conversations, because they’re worth it.
