Diversity Collective w/ Alan & Aparna

Race, Nationality, Sexual Orientation, or Gender should not hinder your path to becoming a leader or international educator. Welcome to this episode as we expound on Diversity Collective in international schools with our guests Alan Phan & Aparna Sundaram.

Alan is the Founder of Diversity Collective and General Principal - at North London Collegiate School HCMC while Aparna is the COO of Recruitment & Consulting at Diversity Collective with 30 years in education.

In the session, we delve into the inspiration behind the diversity fair for people of color, LGBT candidates & leaders, Alan & Aparna’s career experiences as persons of color, the importance of relationship building as well as Aparna’s perspective on what great education entails.

Moreover, we expound on recruitment bias training available at Diversity Collective that helps you hire better, as well as the implicit bias training to make you more introspective and raise your awareness of biases. Ultimately we discuss some common biases in international schools and how to be intentional & deliberate in understanding biases!

Tune in!

Timestamps

[00:47] Housekeeping Items

[01:27] Introducing today’s guests (Alan Phan & Aparna Sundaram)

[02:17] About Alan Phan

[03:50] Why Alan considers himself a person of color

[04:48] About Aparna Sundaram

[09:01] What the term “Great Education” entails

[12:02] Relationship building & focusing more on human values

[14:47] Whether education improving for the future as we move from one generation to the other

[17:00] Implicit bias versus recruitment bias training

[20:00] Male versus female employee biases

[23:40] How to acknowledge & understand our biases

[32:20] Projects Alan & Aparna are working on

[37:39] Advice to international educators out

[39:01] How to connect with Alan & Arpana

Quotes

●      “We are constantly assessing students, but we don’t give them enough opportunity to assess us as teachers, administrators, and leaders. We just don’t do it.”

●      “The best education is where a student feels that they belong, are seen, are met where they are, and they are able to go to where they imagine being able to go in their learning and experiences.”

Let’s Connect

Connect with Alan Phan on;

●      Twitter:  https://twitter.com/TweetAlanPhan

●      Website: https://www.diversityfair.org/

 Connect with Aparna Sundaram;

●      Website: https://www.diversityfair.org/

Connect with Dr. Dana Specker Watts on;

●      Twitter:  https://twitter.com/teachwatts

Connect with Mike Pierre on;

●      Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Ayitis_SigmaMan

 

More resources

●      Head over to iss.edu/events to see future PD's that ISS is offering for the SY 22-23.

●      Join the Diversity Collaborative platform-https://info.iss.edu/sign-up-diversity-collaborative