“If you treat people like peers and partners in your process, the reward is a warmer welcome

into the community—along with far deeper knowledge of the problems you’re trying to address

and what solutions are worth trying. And those advantages are critical if your ultimate goal is

real lasting justice.”

Walker, Darren, et al. From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. Ford Foundation, 2023.

TITLE: Culturally Responsive Learning Lab Workshop

SYNOPSIS:

This workshop will provide the tools for teachers and students to develop practices that support

community building through participatory design. Participants will establish a deeper connection

with their built environment by co-creating applicable / real world interventions that offer

solutions for positive, transformative and sustainable community change. We will build on skills

that lead to career readiness and clear pathways for our students to be leaders in their

communities.

During the workshop we will cover the collaborative process to:

Establishing goals

Identifying initiatives / opportunities available for action

Develop community standards

Establish a long-term vision for mutually beneficial engagement.

Utilizing CR-S we will develop tools to create lesson plans and programs related to urban and

environmental issues that are contextualized in the students’ home / school neighborhoods. This

will result in, a greater engagement of students, as evidenced by higher attendance rate and

higher GPAs. Also longitudinally, we will see a higher graduation level from students who need

and enjoy hands on lessons and active engagement in urban studies and STEM related fields.