Sustainability Phase
SUSTAINABILITY PHASE
Adoption and Integration
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP
This workshop will emphasize leadership actions, within schools, to create a culture and system of cultural and linguistic responsiveness and build capacity of teachers and other members of the school community. The three areas of reflection covered are: Being a model of cultural responsiveness, Supporting the development of cultural responsiveness, and Assessing the institutional change process as it applies to cultural responsiveness.
SUPPORTING TEACHERS IN BECOMING CLR
This workshop is intended for administrators, instructional coaches, and lead teachers directly involved in instruction. How do you support a CLR teacher is the question delved into. Three areas will be covered: knowledge base building, skill development, and how to analyze CLR instruction, specifically using the CLR Walk-Thru Tool.
VABBING REMOTE LEARNING WORKSHOP (OR CLR IN REMOTE LEARNING WORKSHOP)
This workshop will demonstrate strategies and tools that teachers can use to validate and affirm students culturally, in their online teaching. Through interactive participation in several CLR strategies, participants will begin to see how they can engage students and honor the underserved cultural behaviors, using several different technological tools. Participants will also be given a bank of resources, including video tutorials, for further support after the training.
INFUSING CLR INTO SEL WORKSHOP: CREATING A SEL CURRICULUM FOR ALL STUDENTS
This workshop gives educators an overview of what culturally responsive social emotional learning encompasses. Critical Social Consciousness (CSC) SEL uses the students’ cultural backgrounds (including ethnic, gender, economic, linguistic, etc.) as the starting point for developing social emotional skills. The foundation of this process is based on understanding our cultural similarities and differences, which then leads to our developing a critical social consciousness about the world around us. This process supports us in critically looking at the ways in which our world, communities, and schools operate and the different ways in which people are viewed and treated within each of those places. The students then are able to move to making responsible decisions that can change those inequities that are a part of our society.
ALIGNING CLR WITH PBIS WORKSHOP: ENHANCING YOUR PBIS WITH VALIDATION AND AFFIRMATION
Though schools implementing PBIS have demonstrated improvement in creating positive and welcoming school environments, as well as reducing the usage of office disciplinary referrals (ODRs), suspensions, and expulsions, this achievement has not been equitably distributed amongst different ethnic and racial groups. For example, despite the implementation of PBIS with fidelity, Black students are still overrepresented in exclusionary discipline at three times the rate of White students. To mitigate this racial disparity and, most importantly, transform school environments so that they are truly positive and welcoming to ALL students, PBIS must be aligned with CLR. This workshop will examine how PBIS is not inherently CLR but share how it could be made CLR.
CULTIVATING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WORKSHOP
We call it reimaging your classroom, creating an environment that is responsive to those students who do not see themselves in the environment of the traditional school. This session covers basic elements of environmental changes, including hallways, classrooms, and offices.
CRITICAL SOCIAL CONSCIOUS SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (SEL) LEARNING SKILLSET WORKSHOP
In order to implement CSC SEL, educators must be able to make the connections between the students’ culture and the new skills being introduced in the social emotional curriculum. This workshop guides participants through the CSC Framework, highlighting the skills students will develop through the implementation of the CSC SEL curriculum.
STANDARD ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (SELD) WORKSHOP
This workshop is an introduction to Standard English Language Development or SELD strategies (includes a SELD make-n-take). Closely aligned to English Learner Strategies, teachers will learn how to apply second language methodology with Standard English Learners. Variations of this workshop include focus on the linguistic features of non-standard languages.
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE MATHEMATICS AND/OR SCIENCE INSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
What does it mean to be culturally and linguistically responsive while teaching mathematics and science? Teachers learn from practicing math and science, as well as how to infuse culturally responsive pedagogy into these content areas.
FOCUS ON THE LATINO STUDENT AND THE UNDERSERVED MEXICAN AMERICAN/IMMIGRANT WORKSHOP
Even though we focus on Latino students, in general, in our foundation professional development, this workshop gives a specific emphasis to the Mexican American student as the most underserved of the Latino populations. Participants will learn the distinction between a traditional English Learner and Standard English Learner, as well as effective CLR strategies for both populations.
BEING A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE BOARD (BOARD ONLY)
What does it mean to be a culturally responsive school board? It means being a VIP - Vision, Implementation, and Policy. This workshop will cover the three components by discussing and demonstrating how to support schools and the community in the journey to responsiveness.
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE STANDARDIZED TEST PREPARATION
Standardized test prep does not have to be boring. Teachers will learn how to engage the students in test prep in an interesting, relevant way. Workshop actually includes a school assembly and bonus CD with music video, comic book, and images of students.
N-WORD WORKSHOP
This workshop focuses on how to approach the N-word and how to explore it with students. Teachers and administrators will be asked to reflect on their own views of the N-word and will learn about the importance of culturally responsive language, the social and emotional power of words, and how to move beyond the controversial use of this word.
CLR AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)
SEL FOUNDATIONS MINDSET WORKSHOP (2 HOUR)
This workshop gives educators an overview of what culturally responsive social emotional learning encompasses. Critical Social Consciousness (CSC) SEL uses the students’ cultural backgrounds (including ethnic, gender, economic, linguistic, etc.) as the starting point for developing social emotional skills. The foundation of this process is based on understanding our cultural similarities and differences, which then leads to our developing a critical social consciousness about the world around us. This process supports us in critically looking at the ways in which our world, communities, and schools operate and the different ways in which people are viewed and treated, within each of those places. The students then are able to move to making responsible decisions that can change those inequities that are a part of our society.
In this interactive session, participants will:
Understand why SEL must begin within the context of culture and cultural identity.
Utilize culturally responsiveness to reframe the way schools approach social emotional learning.
Analyze the core competencies of SEL, through a critical social conscious lens.
CSC SEL SKILLSET WORKSHOP
(2 HOURS)
In order to implement CSC SEL, educators must be able to make the connections between the student’s culture and the new skills being introduced in the social emotional curriculum.
This workshop guides participants through the CSC Framework, highlighting the skills students will develop through the implementation of the CSC SEL curriculum.
JTRS-JOURNEY TO RESPONSIVENESS FOR STUDENTS
If, as an educator, you are on the metaphorical CLR Journey to Responsiveness, then you will understand why a similar experience would be beneficial for your students. The ongoing goal of your journey is to be more understanding, more sensitive, and more aware of the students who need you. For your students, that goal should be the same. This curriculum, produced by Dr. Hollie’s team in partnership with Culturally Responsive Minds, provides a scope and sequence of lessons for students that parallels your CLR journey, as an educator. Your students will learn about unfairness (inequity), bias, validate and affirm, and cultural behaviors to name a few - all told from their vantage points at K-12; giving your students the opportunity to be VABBulous!
CSC SEL CURRICULUM
Culturally Responsive Minds uses both a culturally responsive and critical social consciousness-based approach to social emotional learning (SEL). The intention of this curriculum is to provide all students the opportunity to develop skills that will help them thrive academically and socially, by engaging, educating, and empowering them.
CLR FOR STUDENTS
There is a Journey to Responsiveness for your students. Paulo Freire said, in We Make the Road by Walking: Conversation on Education and Social Change, "that the teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is make it possible for the students to become themselves." CLR For Students supports students in becoming themselves around issues of racial justice, equity, validation, and affirmation. Begin your students' journey now.