Course Description

This training helps educators by providing a lens of relational equity and cultural competency for the purpose of improving student engagement through effective classroom management that focuses on student-to educator and student-to-student relationships. The purpose of educator relationships is to increase student hope and resiliency as the greatest factor towards graduation and individual success.

Course Objectives

• Apply the cultural competency framework of awareness (see), understanding (hear), skills (know) and advocacy (champion) to increase relational and instructional effectiveness with students from diverse populations including but not limited to: socio-economic, language, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation, gender, religion, age, and ability.

• Apply the unique research traits of student resiliency as a primary factor in closing the opportunity/achievement gap to build relational strategies that focus on asset-based instruction and that develop student hope and resiliency.

• Apply the culturally responsive strategies of educator to student and student to student relationships as a tier one intervention to build and sustain relationships in the classroom as the basis for culturally responsive classroom management.

• Demonstrate the Culture of Courageous conversations in school-based educator to student and student to student relationships.