Blumberg Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education
Project for responsive educational systems
online professional development
Cultural Responsivity
Collaborative Leadership Teams
This series
of academies promotes inclusive systems and schools by coaching
Collaborative Leadership Team members in both leadership skills and team
collaboration. Titles
include the following: Fostering
Team Leadership in Culturally Responsive Systems, Engaging Stakeholders
in Culturally Responsive Systems, and
Creating Culturally Responsive Systems.
Each academy includes a facilitator manual, PowerPoint
presentation, and printable materials.
Cultural and Linguistic Differences: What Teachers Should Know
This module
focuses on ways in which culture influence interactions in all
classrooms and provides practice for enhancing culturally responsive
teaching.
This series
of academies examines the purposes of literacy in students' lives,
methods of designing and implementing culturally responsive literacy
instruction, and the use of many forms of literacy as powerful tools for
student engagement in school and social change.
Titles include the following:
Literacy for What?, Culturally
Responsive Literacy Instruction - What does it Look Like in the
Classroom?, and Boundary
Crossings - Creating Language Experiences in the Classroom for ALL
Students. Each academy
includes a facilitator manual, PowerPoint presentation, and printable
materials.
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice
This series
of academies facilitates and supports the achievement of all students.
Titles include the following:
Understanding Cultural
Responsiveness, Culturally Responsive Classrooms and
Culturally Responsive Curriculum.
Each academy includes a facilitator manual, PowerPoint
presentation, and printable materials.
Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention
This series
of academies includes the basic structures and features of culturally
responsive RTI with a focus on ensuring that general education provides
robust, high quality opportunities to learn for all students. It also
identifies traditional attitudes related to what counts as evidence in
research and practice and strategies for designing interventions that
take into account the role of culture in teaching and learning.
Titles include the following:
Culturally Responsive Response to
Intervention Models, Using Data to Assess Student Progress and Inform
Educational Decisions in Culturally Responsive RTI Models, and
Ensuring Culturally Responsive
Student Supports. Each
academy includes a facilitator manual, PowerPoint presentation, and
printable materials.
English Language Learners (ELLs) and RTI Webinar
This
webinar discusses the educational needs of English Language Learners
(ELLs) and how best to meet those needs in an RTI framework. The webinar
also highlighted examples from schools who are successfully meeting the
needs of English Language Learners.
It includes the PowerPoint presentation, webinar recording, and
follow-up Q&A.
Teaching and Learning in New Mexico: Considerations for Diverse Student
Populations
This module
includes an overview of how diversity (i.e., culture, language,
exceptionality, gender, socioeconomic status, and learning styles)
affects student learning and how better to meet the needs of all
students in a classroom.
Understanding Culture and Cultural Responsiveness
This series of academies explores culture and diversity as it applies to
educators and education by exploring the influence of culture on
everyday activity, on individual identity development, and as it relates
to systems of power and privilege in our education systems.
Titles include the following:
Fostering Appreciating Culture and
Cultural Responsiveness, Uncovering Diversity, and
Power, Privilege, and Change.
Each academy includes a facilitator manual,
PowerPoint presentation, and
printable materials.