Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leadership for Improved and More Equitable Practices Associated with Increasing the Academic Achievement Levels and Social/Emotional Well-Being of Students from Diverse Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnic Backgrounds.
If you are looking to further improve your instructional delivery or engage in more equitable leadership practices to better ensure significant improvement in student learning, this workshop is for you.
This session is designed to further develop the cultural competencies of teachers and administrators by providing you professional development with a focus on best practices in culturally responsive teaching and leading.
As a result of participating in this session you can expect to:
· Gain knowledge of self-culture and the impact of culture on student learning.
· Obtain strategies for learning student culture and using it as a leverage for improving student learning.
· Become familiar with culturally responsive instruction for all content areas.
· Develop the ability to identify and resolve cultural conflicts which serve as counterproductive to improving student learning.
Session Two
Next Level Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leadership for Improved and More Equitable Practices Associated with Increasing the Academic Achievement Levels and Well-Being of Students from Diverse Backgrounds.
If you are looking to take your classroom instruction to the next level or engage in more equitable leadership practices to better ensure significant improvement in student learning, this workshop is for you. The intent of this session is to address topics associated with culture and the impact on student learning and instructional delivery. The intent is also to improve the educators’ ability to develop and/or select more culturally responsive instructional materials.
As a result of participating in this session you can expect to:
· Be exposed to the Leadership for Learning Framework.
· Develop ability to connect curricular content to the spirits, lives and interest of students from diverse backgrounds.
· Develop the ability to select and implement more culturally responsive curriculum and assessment practices.
· Gain access to Dr. Sonya Whitaker’s Culturally Responsive Walk-Through Tool. This tool designed as a benchmark for establishing a more culturally responsive learning environment at the classroom and school levels.
