Module Four: CQI and the Role of Cultural and Bias Awareness

Learning Objectives:

• Explain continuous quality improvement (CQI) and how it applies to our ongoing work as coaches.

• Describe how cultural identity influences cultural biases

• Explain how your own cultural identity, perspectives, and bias impact coaching interactions. 

• Define cultural humility and responsiveness and its importance to coaching. 

• Evaluate how cultural humility and cultural responsiveness might impact growth for you and your coach partner.

Module Resources:

(Items with ** are needed before or during class, everything else is additional resources.)

PDF

• **Lenses of Cultural Activity 

• **Encouraging Reflective Prompts”

• Reframing Responses Activity

• Coach Partner Action Plan

Video

• **The New York Times, “Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias” by Saleem Reshamwala (3 min video)

• **Chimamanda Adichie, “Danger of a Single Story” 

• **Play Video from First Nation’s Health Authority CEO Joe Gallagher on Cultural Humility. 

• Shawn Achor, “The happy secret to better work”  

• How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias | Valerie Alexander | TEDx Pasadena 

• Your brain is wired for negative thoughts. Here’s how to change it. (Video Showed)

• The Happy Secret to Better Work 

  • Min. 0-2:40,

  • Min. 4:50-7 

  • Min. 7-8:30 

  • Min 9-end 

• 2023 Motivational Video: Reframe Your Perspective and Improve Your Life 

• Reframe Your Thoughts

• Dr. Joe Gallagher, “FNHA CEO Joe Gallagher on Cultural Humility.” 

• Significance of Ethics Video

Websites

• **Professional Development Information System (PDIS)

• **International Coach Federation

• IFC Code of Ethics

• **The Culture Tree. 

• Harvard Implicit Association Test

• Colorado Coaching Consortium

• National Association for the Education of Young Children  Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement 

• We’re All in This Together: The Parallel Process and What It Means in the Field of Home Visiting

• NAEYC Code of Ethics 

• NAEYC Code of Ethics Glossary of Terms

• Zero to Three Values and Ethics

Articles

• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” 

• “A Framework for Implementation” Casey Family Programs & the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement 

• “Moving from the Mainstream to the Margins: Lessons in Culture and Power” 

• US Department of Education  Unpacking Biases: Developing Cultural Humility in Early Childhood and Elementary Teacher Candidates 

• “Your brain on culture: The burgeoning field of cultural neuroscience is finding that culture influences brain development, and perhaps vice versa.” 

• Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility? Moving Beyond the Debate Ella Greene-Moton, Meredith Minkler

• Supporting Professionals Who Support Families: The Parallel Process | ECLKC

• Taking Steps to Strengthen Relationships and Support Parents

• A Consultation Approach to Target Exclusionary Discipline of Students of Color in Early Childhood Education

• Implicit Bias in School Discipline Decisions: Strategies for Enhancing Equity, Kent McIntosh, University of Oregon

• Education not Incarceration: A Conceptual Model for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline

• Vulnerable Decision Points for Disproportionate Office Discipline Referrals: Comparisons of Discipline for African American and White Elementary School Students

Competencies

• Colorado Competencies for Early Childhood Coaches