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Diversity, Equity, and Cultural Competence: Exploring and Unpacking Bias (15 clock hours)
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Diversity, Equity, and Cultural Competence: Exploring and Unpacking Bias (15 clock hours): Educators will be able to define and describe implicit and explicit bias and identify how bias influences decisions, actions, and behaviors with students and families. Educators will also identify specific actions they can take to disrupt bias in their classrooms, schools, and districts.
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Diversity, Equity & Cultural Competence: Exploring and Unpacking Bias (Equity) (15hrs)

Course Description
Educators will be able to define and describe implicit and explicit bias and identify how bias influences decisions, actions, and behaviors with students and families. Educators will also identify specific actions they can take to disrupt bias in their classrooms, schools, and districts. Types of Evidence Required: Infographic, and design professional learning.Course Objectives
Educators will explore their personal biases. They will then create an infographic and a presentation that illustrates various types of bias in education, the impact these biases have on students, and what can be done to disrupt bias in classrooms, schools, and districts.
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