Culturally Responsive School Leadership uses a set of practices in order to help school leaders effectively serve historically under-served students, their families and the practitioners they supervise. It focuses on how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that have a sustainable impact on learning and in the words of Muhammad Khalifa “honor indigenous heritages and local cultural practices”.

This workshop will examine the framework for Culturally Responsive School Leadership, and how it can be used to change and / or support:

• Anti-Oppressive Learning Environments,

• Curriculum, Planning & Instruction

• Instructional Rounds/Classroom Observations

School leaders to day need to make sure their school is using the optimal tools to support a productive, healthy, and safe environment, both on-site and remotely.

• Customized school mobile apps

• Online data dashboards, curriculum, schedules, and calendars

• Implement strong culturally responsive practices with their staff

• Enhance staff communication syncrhonously and asyncrhonously

Effective systems are the core of a high-performing school. From establishing school culture goals to creating accountability measures that ensure academic excellence, this workshop outlines best practices and potential pitfalls in designing how your school will function. Our goal is to help you assess your current systems and structures and assist in improving these amidst an evolving educational landscape.

Team performance is strongest when one feels connected to the community they are working with. Whether you are a leader or teacher, building a strong school community is critical to ensuring positive staff and student morale and performance, but how do we accomplish this remotely in a meaningful way?

In this workshop you will review the conditions of Culturally Responsive Teaching and learn how to integrate these through engaging activities that reinforce community among your staff and within your classroom.

Transitioning our schools into remote working and learning can be a daunting process. We need to adapt, not only to everyone not being in the same physical space, but also not being available at the same time. How do we use available tools to leverage the loss of synchrony in this new landscape? Moving into remote learning requires us to use tools that can adapt to this asynchronous landscape, let’s explore the power of this tools.

• Enhancing meetings by engaging all participants without falling into chaos.

• Creating different communication pathways using Google tools

• Ideas for letting go of our human need to micromanage our students, our team members

• Maximizing the power of Google Hangouts to create ongoing discussions and forums.

• Tips for including flexibility in assignments

• Strategies for strengthening a sense of purpose in our classes and with our teams.