Institute for Leadership in Education Development (I-LED)

About ILED:

I-LED strengthens the capacity of anti-violence and prevention educators to design and deliver training that works. Through practical workshops and technical assistance, we support U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grantees and their partners in creating accessible, engaging learning experiences for the audiences they serve. 

We work with anyone who receives OVW funds or is partnered with an organization receiving OVW funds, including advocates, attorneys, social workers, judges, and community professionals.  

How We Approach Learning

I-LED is rooted in a deep respect for adult learners and what they bring to the table. Our programs reflect these commitments: 

• The room is full of teachers. We help them name, resource, and build on what they already know. 
• Learning happens through doing. We prioritize hands-on activities, real-world application, and skill-building over passive listening. 
• Learning happens in discomfort. We create brave spaces for difficult conversations, disagreement, and wrestling with complexity. 
• Engage the whole person. Effective learning involves emotions, relationships, identity, and experience. 
• Everything we teach is designed to use right away in participants’ own context. 

In-Person Workshops

• Faculty Development Workshop: This intensive workshop is designed for teams of trainers who want to strengthen both their curriculum design and facilitation skills. Participants will learn the building blocks of effective adult education while creating something tangible to take home and use. This workshop is geared toward learners with no formal training in curriculum design and will cover some of the basic building blocks and accompanying facilitation skills.  
• Effective (Meeting) Facilitation Skills Workshop: This workshop will equip you with practical facilitation skills you can use to lead engaging trainings, facilitate coalition meetings, and guide groups through complex conversations and decisions.
• The Intentional Educator Planning & Facilitation Skills: This workshop is designed for participants who have previously taken the Facilitation Skills Workshop or have extensive training facilitation experience. It will equip participants with a new layer of facilitation skills — increasing engagement and navigating the unknowns that come with training multidisciplinary groups.  

Virtual Offerings

• Explore our video training library for additional facilitation tools, curriculum design support, and practical strategies for adult learning.
  Watch recorded trainings and educational videos from I-LED here. 
• Distance eLearning Course (7-week virtual course, self-paced and ongoing.) This online course focuses on assisting learners to design self-paced virtual courses on a budget. Request to REGISTER HERE. 
• Educational Program and Curriculum Design (EPCD) Workshop (7-week virtual course, offered annually).
  This course focuses on the detailed process of designing a training and creating a curriculum outline.
  Please note: This course has already been offered during the current funding period. Information will be updated when the next offering becomes available.

Learn more about I-LED and our training and technical assistance. 

Resources

I-LED has developed many resources to improve training and education. Many are now available in the Resource Library on this website. Choose the option for “Training” in the drop-down menu.

Our podcast, The Accidental Educator, is for advocates who want to change how we teach about domestic and sexual violence. Follow along on topics including “How to Make a Podcast” with our host, Abby, as she learns how to get started with pre-production and planning, what gear she needs, how to use audio editing platforms, and how to edit the episode into a cohesive story. We also talk with local domestic and sexual violence programs about their podcasting strategies and how they make their podcasts relevant to communities.

The podcast is available on all streaming platforms.

In addition, our online learning modules include:

• Language Access and Language Justice Learning Module

Technical Assistance

Please reach out to learning@futureswithoutviolence.org to request technical assistance and/or for more information about our upcoming trainings and TA.

This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-24-GK-03004-MUMUawarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this document are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.