Sandra K Chapman, Ed. D.

I am CEO of Chap Equity Inc., an organization rooted in collaboration, research and dialogue. I am Social Identity Development Lead for the Great First Eight curriculum project, at Stand for Children. I translate concepts on identity into interactive workshops and collaborate on writing projects. I co-author: Bias Starts Early. Let’s Start Now: Developing an Anti-Racist, Anti-Bias Book Collection for Infants and Toddlers, in The Reader Teacher (Dec. 2022); Black Girl on the Playground (Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, 2021), & Turning Thinking into Action: The Power of Equity-based Pedagogical Frameworks to Support Practice for What School Could Be (Feb 2024).

My Availability

  • Days and Times: Mon-Thurs, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Eastern Time, Mon-Thurs, 11 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Time. Some Saturdays with advanced notice.
  • Travel: Ask me about traveling to your location.
  • Online: Available to teach on Zoom.

My Trainings and Workshops

  • DEIB/Anti-racism
  • ECE/Preschool
  • Inclusion
  • Leadership and Team Building
  • Teens
In today’s society, children receive daily messages about skin color, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, ability, gender and many other categories of social identities....
  • Communication Skills
  • DEIB/Anti-racism
  • ECE/Preschool
  • Leadership and Team Building
Conversations across lines of social identity differences can trigger worries that negatively impact the exchange. When people who experience marginalization and people with dominant social identities feel the potential for being misunderstood, there is an increase in emotions and avoidance of topics....
  • Communication Skills
  • DEIB/Anti-racism
  • ECE/Preschool
  • Leadership and Team Building
Everyone comes to DEIBJ work from a different place - informed by their lived experiences, education, prior engagement in DEIBJ work, and other factors such as disposition and ways of seeing and being. 1:1 attention will offer a space for processing new strands of knowledge and how best to apply the knowledge in their work with others....