Connect, Innovate, and Design

Designed for professionals of all levels, 228 Accelerator’s three signature design challenges implore participants to discover, advance, and design the leading edge of equity-centered schools and organizations.

Level up your team’s equity literacies!

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Live facilitation to integrate teachings and learning into work streams.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

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Design challenges delivered right to your inbox

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Earn NFT credential to unlock more profound community experiences.

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MAKING OPPRESSION OBSOLETE

Design Boldly

This foundational learning experience immerses participants in the equityXdesign process, centering the voices of the marginalized and fostering inclusive innovation. At the heart of this experience are frequent and regular design challenges and live facilitation, crafted to keep participants focused and actively engaged in their bold, anti-racism journey.

This experience builds the capacity to recognize and respond to racism and anti-Blackness while introducing key principles of designing for equity, fostering transformative empathy, and iterating on equitable design solutions. Participants will leave with actionable strategies and tools to dismantle oppressive systems and lead anti-racist community practices.

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SHARE POWER, DESIGN A NEW FUTURE

Dream Expansively

Everyone has power, yet there is often a disconnect between who we are, who we aspire to be, and how we act. In this experience, we bridge this gap through live facilitation and the Cede Power design challenges. Participants will examine how oppressive systems—such as white supremacy, heteronormativity, and patriarchy—shape their relationships, leadership practices, and personal behaviors. This immersive experience includes interactive sessions and integrated design challenges to bring principles into real-world contexts.

These challenges help participants develop a shared language to redesign relationships in organizations to dream expansively, share power, and design a new future.

DESIGN FOR REFLECTION AND REPAIR

Build Inclusively

Relationships are often shaped by unseen assumptions that reinforce exclusion and bias. Uncovering these dynamics creates opportunities to reflect, repair, and rebuild with equity at the center. This learning experience focuses on cultivating spaces for reflection and repair through weekly design challenges and exploring the equityXdesign principles: Design at the Margins, Start with Self, and Make the Invisible Visible.

Participants will dive into tools and strategies for assessing how classrooms, schools, and organizations advance equity, using data and metrics to measure meaningful change. Through structured and live facilitation, they will test and refine equitable innovations on a small scale, learning to anchor these practices deeply and scale them effectively across their systems.

By the end of this experience, participants will be equipped to design spaces where all thrive—crafting new relationships and practices that transform leadership and organizational structures.

What Our Clients Have to Say

I enjoyed the collection of videos and sources, especially as they brought historical context into the conversation. I also really enjoyed reading through the Activity Feed in order to be able to learn how others processed the information and shared their takeaways from the lessons.

It pushed me to think in new ways about (in)equity, racism, my own privilege, and how these things all affect my work.

I am really impressed with the level of intentionality with which the course was designed. I found myself reading through a lesson and then thinking about it for days, weeks, months. While I may have finished the course, I feel I've only begun to do the work and that I could redo the course multiple times and still find new things to take away each time.

FAQs

  • Delivered right to your inbox, you can take the time to read, reflect, and integrate into your daily practice. Each challenge is designed as a small step that will take less than 1 hour to complete.

  • We look for changes in how the person understands themselves, the ideas about the design principles, and look for surprises—because that is where the learning happens.

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  • Participants receive an NFT as a digital credential to showcase their new skills to their professional community.