This workshop will provide attendees with the awareness, knowledge, and skills to become “Culturally Competent” educators. First attendees will examine the rationale and benefits of cultural competency and the barriers to cultural competency. Second, attendees will learn about the components of student diversity, including race, economic status, ethnicity, religion, language, and sexual orientation. Third, attendees will explore how their values, norms, and traditions affect how they perceiv

This workshop will provide attendees with the awareness, knowledge, and skills to become “Culturally Competent” educators. First attendees will examine the rationale and benefits of cultural competency and the barriers to cultural competency. Second, attendees will learn about the components of student diversity, including race, economic status, ethnicity, religion, language, and sexual orientation. Third, attendees will explore how their values, norms, and traditions affect how they perceive, think, interact and make judgements about their world. Finally, attendees will learn how to integrate cultural competency principles into education to impact students’ inner wealth and academic achievement positively. This workshop meets the cultural competency requirements for social workers (LSW or LCSW).

Cost Information: Participation fees are waived for NSSED employees and Member District employees. For individual participants who are not NSSED employees or Member District employees the course participation fee is $75.00. All fees will be billed directly to the school district that employs the participant after the session is complete or the first session in a series is complete. Individuals are asked to not bring payment to the session.
Cancellations: There is no cancellation fee, though we ask for advanced notice to open the spot for another person. NSSED reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to low enrollment.
Refunds: NSSED does not charge prior to the start of the course. If an individual attends the first day of a learning series but is unable to attend the remaining sessions, the school district that employs the participant is able to designate an alternate person. It is up the individual no longer attending the program to give their replacement the information learned in the first session.
*Member Districts include: Northbrook 27, Northbrook 28, Sunset Ridge 29, Glenview/Northbrook 30, West Northfield 31, Glenview 34, Glencoe 35, Winnetka 36, Kenilworth 38, Lake Bluff 65, Lake Forest 67, Bannockburn 106, Deerfield 109, North Shore 112, Township HS 113, Lake Forest 115, New Trier 203, Glenbrook 225.
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