Who: School/district leader teams
Where:
Riverside Convention Center
3637 5th St,
Riverside, CA 92501
When: Sept. 27, Oct. 18, Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. – Noon
Day 1: Focus on Culture LITE and Its Instructional Benefits – facilitated by Dr. Hollie
This session defines, concretely, what is cultural responsiveness and why it is necessary in our schools today. It builds knowledge and creates the context for addressing the needs of underserved students in terms of their socio-political and socio-linguistic relativity in the American educational system. This work promotes the focus on effective instructional strategies utilization in a way that validates and affirms underserved students across content areas and grade levels.
Day 2: Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Workshop – facilitated by Dr. Hollie
In order to have a positive classroom management system, teachers have to separate out cultural behaviors from disruptive behaviors. In many cases, the two are confused due to biases, misperceptions, and miscommunications. This workshop works participants through a process of reflecting upon their unconscious biases, learning about cultural behaviors according to research, and practicing management strategies for building on the cultural behaviors.
Day 3: CLR and PBIS Workshop – facilitated by Dr. Russell
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.