Communication
Goal of this section
Educators can explain how communication styles may differ across cultures and adjust content or conversation to individuals' or groups' lived experiences and interests. This includes creating regular opportunities for students and their families to speak and read in their home language(s).
Communication Style
Self-Assessment
by. BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
Self-Assessment
by. BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
(~10 min activity)
Communication-Styles-Assessment.pdfCultural Competence
Self-Assessment Checklist
Adapted from the Greater Vancouver Island Multicultural Society Cultural Competence Self-assessment Checklist.
Self-Assessment Checklist
Adapted from the Greater Vancouver Island Multicultural Society Cultural Competence Self-assessment Checklist.
(~10 min activity)
cultural-competence-selfassessment-checklist-1.pdfCommunicating with Families: Helpful Suggestions
by. Elizabeth Steed and Glen Dunlap
NCPMI Family Engagement Workgroup
(~5 read)
Communicating-with-Families.pdfnvc0_workbook_v2.3_1.pdfNeeds-Based and Non Violent Communication
This resource is an excellent introduction to Non Violent Communication, but Page 22 particularly discusses different Paradigms - Domination vs. Partnership Paradigms, which can be useful in thinking about educators and schools can strive to approach and work with families differently.
Some be
listening — so that the other person has an experience of being heard, even if we don't agree with what they are saying
empathy — the basis of care and compassion -- recognizing the weird ways that we unconsciously ask for empathy
expressing disagreement without blame -- an integral skill of conscious feedback and mutual accountability
recognizing our own unconscious reactions and limiting beliefs — these are what diminish our relationships and effectiveness, especially as leaders
seeing conflict as something to be harvested, not avoided — learn to "lean into" conflict instead of away from it, learn to hear the underlying essence of what matters to the people involved
Additional Resources: Tough Conversations Tools List
by: Afterschool Alliance
This is a resource list for teachers in teaching about equity, but also assessing their communication skills and interrogating the best ways to frame conversations.
Click on three resources that look interesting to you, and think about how that resource might be useful to you in your classroom, or if someone on your team might find it useful.
How might resources that prepare students for equity conversations also tie into your SEL curriculum?
ToughConversationsToolList_Online(1).pdf