Course Description

This online or face to face training helps educators develop culturally responsive classroom management practices to ensure that students experience a positive, consistent, safe and equitable classroom. Participants learn strategies to appreciate and appropriately integrate their students’ culture and family backgrounds into the classroom culture as a tier one strategy that cultivates connections before applying appropriate classroom management strategies. CRCM Mod 2a and Mod 2b Framework Objectives: • Understand core practices for developing culturally responsive classroom management. • Learn how to begin building social relationships, communicating in culturally responsive ways, cultivating a safe and inclusive environment and engaging with families and communities. • Learn how to implement student voice through student focus groups • Learn how to implement Classroom Meetings • Demonstrate an understanding for how to apply a restorative justice protocol for “Courageous Classroom Conversations” for the classroom. This training meets the professional and continuing elementary and secondary certificate renewal requirement for TPEP (RCW 28A.410.278).

Course Objectives

1. Identify strategies for building educator whole class student relationships

2. Demonstrate an understanding for how to apply the protocol for Courageous Conversations for the Classroom to your context

3. Identify strategies for building educator individual student relationships

4. Understand the process for conducting classroom meetings

5. Utilize the power of student focus groups