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Be the Light
Facilitator: Chanda Jefferson
This is a motivational session that incorporates storytelling, conversation, peer- collaboration, and design thinking protocols to develop initiatives for engaging students from historically underserved communities. The facilitator will share how a ride with a community resident and a community data audit enhanced her classroom instruction and led to the development of new school programs. Participants will leave with resources to develop engaging programs in their schools, classrooms, and/or communities.
This is a motivational session that incorporates storytelling, conversation, peer- collaboration, and design thinking protocols to develop initiatives for engaging students from historically underserved communities. The facilitator will share how a ride with a community resident and a community data audit enhanced her classroom instruction and led to the development of new school programs. Participants will leave with resources to develop engaging programs in their schools, classrooms, and/or communities.
Culturally Competent Pedagogy
Facilitator: Albert Jones
Honoring and bringing culture into classrooms are important to providing an inclusive educational experience. Let's dive deeper into how listening to students can create the strongest lessons you've ever taught.
Honoring and bringing culture into classrooms are important to providing an inclusive educational experience. Let's dive deeper into how listening to students can create the strongest lessons you've ever taught.
Increasing Cultural Relevancy in Your School and Classrooms
Facilitator: Pete Stone
Cultural relevancy is not an additional teaching trick to add to the curriculum for increased productivity. Cultural relevancy is in one simple word: Truth. Truth engages and inspires because it tells the complete story. Also, our world is naturally a wonderful and exciting place because of our collective, beautiful diversity. Therefore, it actually takes more effort to not present culturally relevant lessons and work environments than otherwise. However, given the current nature of our society, being culturally relevant in education does take being on purpose. In this session, Stone offers an opportunity for participants to open up and collectively discover how to bring cultural relevancy into our work as well as recognize the tremendous benefits this approach brings to improving every area of our profession and lives. Stone has taught this way his entire career with great results as the truth always inspires students. Given the great sensitivity surrounding these issues, Stone will also help share tools to help you feel more confident bringing this approach to your work environment in sensitive and successful ways. If you or your faculty is looking for a way to approach starting and continuing this conversation or emphasizing the skill set needed to have culturally relevant lessons and environment, then this is a great session to participate in.
Cultural relevancy is not an additional teaching trick to add to the curriculum for increased productivity. Cultural relevancy is in one simple word: Truth. Truth engages and inspires because it tells the complete story. Also, our world is naturally a wonderful and exciting place because of our collective, beautiful diversity. Therefore, it actually takes more effort to not present culturally relevant lessons and work environments than otherwise. However, given the current nature of our society, being culturally relevant in education does take being on purpose. In this session, Stone offers an opportunity for participants to open up and collectively discover how to bring cultural relevancy into our work as well as recognize the tremendous benefits this approach brings to improving every area of our profession and lives. Stone has taught this way his entire career with great results as the truth always inspires students. Given the great sensitivity surrounding these issues, Stone will also help share tools to help you feel more confident bringing this approach to your work environment in sensitive and successful ways. If you or your faculty is looking for a way to approach starting and continuing this conversation or emphasizing the skill set needed to have culturally relevant lessons and environment, then this is a great session to participate in.
Racial and Social Justice
Facilitator: Albert Jones
Embedding current events and issues into educational standards are essential to developing the whole child. This professional learning experience highlights one of the many ways you can embed quality increase with critical consciousness
Embedding current events and issues into educational standards are essential to developing the whole child. This professional learning experience highlights one of the many ways you can embed quality increase with critical consciousness
True Colors
Facilitators: Kaneale Cornell, Albert Jones, & Todd Scholl
True Colors is an activity used to promote the appreciation of individual differences. True Colors is a self-awareness activity enabling individuals to become aware of their personality styles. True Colors is a team-builder helping members to understand the preferred styles of their colleagues.
True Colors is an activity used to promote the appreciation of individual differences. True Colors is a self-awareness activity enabling individuals to become aware of their personality styles. True Colors is a team-builder helping members to understand the preferred styles of their colleagues.
