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Brochure "Creating High Performing Schools By Increasing Your Understanding of Cultural Competency"

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PA ACT 45 Course

Developing Cultural Competency for Leading, Teaching, and Learning Across Cultures to Raise Student Achievement

40 Hours

I. Program Description

DESCRIPTION

The achievement gap is widely acknowledged as the most persisting issue and problem in U.S. education. The achievement gap represents the disparities in educational outcomes between various student and socioeconomic groups. Today, the need to develop and implement culturally responsive strategies that inform, train, and prepare school systems to educate all students is essential. In confronting this national crisis, training in cultural competence provides educators the understanding of culture and its influence on cognition, motivation, and behavior. This course will empower educators with the awareness, knowledge, skills, and strategies to more effectively create educational systems, buildings, classrooms, and communities that increase culturally inclusive leading, teaching, and learning.
 
OBJECTIVES

• The learning objectives in this course will improve participants':
• Awareness of the role of culture in leading in diverse societies and school systems.
• Understanding of cultural competency and how it relates to valuing diversity and differences among diverse student populations.
• Understanding of the role of the brain in teaching and learning.
• Knowledge of self-reflection and assessment as a means to lead and manage school improvement strategies and plans in one's own school or district.
• Understanding of the 4 A's of differences (Accept, Appreciate, Acknowledge, Attention) that support the environmental inclusion and achievement of students from diverse racial, ethnic, religious, gender, LGBT, socioeconomic, and homeless backgrounds.
• Ability to engage in critical self-reflection of one’s own attitudes, behaviors, and practices (strengths and weaknesses) that may positively impact or negatively impede leadership and decision-making across and within diverse student cultures and groups.
• Ability to change and shift one's own attitudes, values, and practices in ways that support the maximization of the teaching, and learning of all students in one’s own school or district.
• Skills communicating and leading cultural competency strategies and practices that integrate the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion across all cultures and groups, i.e., staff, students, parents, and community members.

For more information, please contact:
Donald E. Sheffield, Ed.D., President
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724-513-2116 Mobile

Please see the Fall 2020 Report on Equity Leadership in Cultural Competency Course for School Administrators.