Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership in Action

Event Details

Date: Saturday, August 21st, 2021

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Hong Kong Time)

Moderators: Margaret Park (Assistant Principal - Seoul Foreign School) and Darnell Fine ( Instructional Coach, Singapore American School)

Presenters: Instructional Leaders from International Schools

Audience: Anyone wishing to learn more about enacting culturally responsive change in their professional contexts and thereby wishing to transform teaching and learning in their school, campus, or professional context. Registration will be capped at 270 participants. If you are not able to make the event, we can share presenters’ information with you (with their consent) so that they can present their work to your organization at a later time.

Format: Zoom Meeting

Description of Event

Purpose of Event

The purpose of this event is to share culturally responsive action plans that instructional leaders intend to implement towards advancing equity in their professional contexts. These action plans serve as a way to inspire other instructional leaders to lead culturally responsive, antiracist, and LGBTQ+ inclusive change in the school curriculum, instruction, and environments. The actions shared in these plans constitute instructional practices that engage adult learners in transformational learning within educational organizations to disrupt historically entrenched inequities.

Structure of Event

I. Introductions (10 min.)

Introduce context of EARCOS Diversity Collaborative
Introduce agenda of event

II. Self-Selected Breakout Rooms (30 min.)

Culturally responsive instructional leaders share action plans
Audience gives affirming or “warm” feedback
Leaders field questions from participants

III. Mid-Session Transition (5 min.)

As a way to introduce the next breakout session, ask participants to share responses to one of the following in the chat:
- What was comforting?
- What challenged your thinking?
- What are you still wondering about/what questions do you have?
- What do you most want to bring back to your community?
- Send participants into breakout rooms to verbally respond to the above four questions.

IV. Randomized Breakout Rooms (10 min.)

What was comforting?
What challenged your thinking?
What are you still wondering about/what questions do you have?
What do you most want to bring back to your community?

V. Whole-Group Share Out & Closing (5 min.)

Make space for participants to share out to the full group
Share information about related events
Invite folks to say longer if they wish to stay longer for unstructured conversation

Moderators

Margaret Park

Margaret Park is currently serving the Seoul Foreign School community as its Elementary School Assistant Principal. She is a co- founder of Seoul of a Leader and is committed to fostering leadership development with experience in counseling, mentoring, coaching, facilitating professional development, and organizing conferences. After earning a B.A in Political Science and Sociology and M.A in Childhood Special Education in the United States, Margaret taught Special Education in New York City and obtained a school counseling license in Boston, MA. Margaret is a Fulbright Scholar and received an Education Masters and Certificate of Advanced Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also earned a M.A in Pastoral Counseling and is passionate about providing pastoral care in various settings. Margaret is particularly interested in thinking about leadership through a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice lens and is committed to building capacity in others so they can reach their fullest potential.

Linkedin: Mpark330
Twitter: Seoulofavegan

Darnell Fine

Darnell Fine is an experienced facilitator of adult learning focusing on curriculum & assessment, diversity, equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive teaching. He has led sessions for national and international conferences, numerous US public, independent and international schools, as well as the Pew Center and the US Department of Education. In addition to facilitation, he serves as a curriculum consultant, reviewing manuscripts and curricula for publishing companies, national arts organizations, and universities. After earning his Bachelor’s in Africana Studies and Education at Brown University, Darnell obtained his Teacher Support Specialist Endorsement through Georgia State University and his Master’s in Creative Writing in London. He is currently an instructional coach and chairs the faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) planning team at Singapore American School. He is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, studying educational leadership through a lens of equity and social justice. Darnell is a 2012 recipient of the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching and a former advisory board member with Teaching Tolerance.

Twitter: @de_fine

Registration

This session is already full. Please email Margaret Park at margaretleepark@gmail.com or Darnell Fine at darnellfine@gmail.com to be listed on the waiting list and get notified in case there are cancellations.

The event will take place virtually and a zoom link and password will be sent to those who register by August 18th 2021.

Please do not hesitate to e-mail Margaret Park at margaretleepark@gmail.com or Darnell Fine at darnellfine@gmail.com We look forward to learning with and from you at this exciting EARCOS sponsored event!