This course is the beginning of your journey towards making cultural responsiveness a meaningful aspect of your everyday life. It will develop both your mindset and skillset towards making your classroom, school and professional community more welcoming, engaging, and culturally responsive.

Individual and Group Editions available. Click below to enroll today!

ONLINE VABB™ ACADEMY

ONLINE FOUNDATION COURSE

FOCUS ON CULTURE

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    At the end of the course:

    Understand, concretely, what cultural responsiveness is and why it is necessary in our schools today.

    Build knowledge and create the context for addressing the needs of underserved students in terms of their sociopolitical and sociolinguistic relativity in the American educational system.

    Promote the focus of effective instructional strategies utilization, in a way that validates and affirms underserved students across content areas and grade levels.

  • CLASSROOM CURRICULUM

    Part 1 - Purpose of the CLR Journey (54:00)

    Part 2 - What is the CLR Journey? (52:21)

    Part 3 - CLR Journey in Skillset (69:02)

    Part 4 - CLR Journey in Mindset (67:15)

    Part 5 - VABBing in Practice (16:44)

  • CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

    AT THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL:

    • Be able to check your biases around specific cultural behaviors.

    • Be able to differentiate cultural behaviors from unacceptable behaviors.

    • Reflect on the effectiveness of your current classroom management system.

  • CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE ACADEMIC LITERACY

    AT THE END OF THIS COURSE YOU WILL:

    • Be able to supplement core texts, and content with culturally responsive/authentic books, articles, stories, and reference materials.

    • Bave the knowledge to support students reading development with culturally responsive read-alouds.

    • Understand how to saturate instruction with effective (research-supported) literacy strategies/activities.

“Your workshop was inspirational.”
— Judy Gibbs Robinson, Public Education Department, NM

FAQ’s

  • The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.

  • How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.

  • We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.

  • Over half of our Foundation workshops are currently available on Teachable: Focus on Culture, Culturally Responsive Classroom Management, and Culturally Responsive Academic Vocabulary. We are currently working on creating Culturally Responsive Academic Literacy and Language. Stay tuned!

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