Course Description

This training helps educators explore culturally responsive classroom interaction practices to ensure that students experience a positive, consistent, safe and equitable classroom. Educators will examine implicit bias and microagressions as two key concepts that reinforces the four types of rarcism: internalized, interpersonal, institutional and structural. Participants will learn to how to identify "choices" that can consciously and unconsciously marginalize students students and families. Educatosr will identify key equity based questions to ask when implementing new practices, decisions, and choices that will potentially impact marginalized student populations.

Course Objectives

• Apply core practices for developing culturally responsive classroom interactions.

• Examine racial justice and the four types of racism as it applies in the public school system.

• Identify Implicit Bias and Microagressions and use strategies to prevent and eliminate

• Homework: Implement “explicit equity as a “choice-point” strategy for the classrooms

• Identify strategies for building social relationships between students and families.

• Develop ideas for communicating in culturally responsive ways.

• Find ways to respond to student needs through facilitating student focus groups.

• Investigate cultural assumptions, views, and beliefs to understand how one’s own cultural histories and biases may affect work with students from culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse backgrounds.

• Learn to use provided resources and materials to support culturally responsive classrooms.

This training meets the professional and continuing elementary and secondary certificate renewal requirement for TPEP (RCW 28A.410.278).