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FOUNDATIONS AND JUMPSTART FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Sharroky Hollie, director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CCRTL) as he presents, "Foundations and Jumpstart for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning".

In theses workshops, Dr. Hollie:

Foundations (August 21)

AM SESSION: A FOCUS ON CULTURE AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL BENEFITS

Defines, concretely, what cultural responsiveness is and why it is necessary in our schools today.
Builds knowledge and creates the context for addressing the needs of underserved students in terms of their sociopolitical and sociolinguistic relativity in the American educational system.
Promotes the focus on effective instructional strategies utilization in a way that validates and affirms underserved students across content areas and grade levels.

PM SESSION: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

In order to have a positive classroom management system, teachers have to separate cultural behaviors from disruptive behaviors. In many cases, the two are confused due to biases, misperceptions, and miscommunications. This workshop works with participants through a process of reflecting upon their unconscious biases, learning about cultural behaviors according to research, and practicing management strategies for building on the cultural behaviors.

Jumpstart (August 22)

The Jumpstart Workshop is designed to help teachers with their use of the strategies. Through modeling and immersion. Teachers will learn how to use CLR strategies by doing them. The workshop also helps teachers begin to understand the WHY of the CLR strategies and how they can be used to validate and affirm cultural behaviors.

Jumpstart is by invitation only.

DR. SHARROKY HOLLIE

Dr. Sharroky Hollie is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators in the area of cultural responsiveness. Since 2000, Dr. Hollie has trained over 150,000 educators and worked in nearly 2,000 classrooms. Going back 25 years, he has been a classroom teacher at the middle and high school levels, a central office professional development coordinator in Los Angeles Unified School District, a school founder and administrator, and university professor in teacher education at Cal State University. Sharroky has also been a visiting professor for Webster University in St. Louis and a guest lecturer at Stanford and UCLA.

In addition to his experience in education, he has authored several texts and journal articles. Most recently, he wrote Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (2015) and contributed a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of African American Language (2015). Dr. Hollie's first book, Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning: Classroom Practices for Student Success, was published in 2011, followed soon thereafter by The Skill to Lead, The Will to Teach, co-written with Dr. Anthony Muhammad. Also, Dr. Hollie has been a contributing author with Pearson publishing, in the Cornerstone and Keystone textbook series (2009), Prentice Hall Anthology (2012), and iLit e-series (2014). In 2003, he and two colleagues founded the Culture and Language Academy of Success, a laboratory school that demonstrated the principles of cultural responsiveness in an exemplary school-wide model, which operated until 2013. Watch a video on Dr. Hollie on the CCRTL Website >