Culturally-Responsive Teacher Preparation Camp Registration Open Now
May 6 - June 8, 2021
 The Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning is excited to host a six-week Culturally-Responsive Teacher Preparation Camp in partnership with Dr. Sharon Knight. This professional development series will provide early learning educators who serve children ages birth-to-five with access to 10 live and asynchronous training sessions in addition to individualized support. Registration is FREE and participants can earn up to 40 STARS/MERIT hours.
Course Description:
It is evident that during pandemics and social unrest, the learning process must continue for our children and those who care for and teach them. Imagine, when COVID-19 hit, as an educator you had the tools to do exactly what was needed to immediately support your children and families, community, and your own needs in a manner that left everyone feeling confident, hopeful, and safe. Think about it. Today, its COVID-19. Next year it might be Seattle’s BIG earthquake. Will you be prepared, based on the lessons learned from a diversity of experiences and impact, or will you find yourself floundering and reacting?
C-RTC CAMP is about supporting you as an in-service or pre-service education professional with your capacity to be proactive, not a reactionary multicultural educator. Thus, in this CAMP you are introduced to a culturally responsive framework that integrates real time events. Fittingly, this specific CAMP uses the lenses of COVID-19 and race and social justice as guides to support you in developing your capacity to steer away from crisis management, grand narrative reactions, and survival teaching. In this CAMP, you can expect to engage in cross-cultural conversations; examine personal and professional impact of COVID-19 and social unrest; and explore a practice-based, culturally responsive framework that uses best practice, multicultural education, and wellness goals for mastering the art of culturally responsive, proactive teaching.
In real time, the culturally responsive framework meets you where you are as a professional, in that it encourages you to set personal and/or professional goals that are achievable, appropriate, meaningful, practical, realistic, and relative. Your professional development goals may focus on your attitude, children and families, colleagues, community, curriculum, environment, resources, and/or yourself-needs. Whatever your focus you can anticipate developing your capacity for anyone or several of the following outcomes:
Creates age and developmentally appropriate multicultural learning curricula and environments
Reflects on instructional practices and make culturally responsive modifications to produce a climate of caring
Engages, constructively in cross-cultural relationships with children and families, colleagues, and community
Administers best practice, equity-driven, and multidimensional approaches to learning and/or resources
Teaches children from impartial and nonjudgmental perspectives about equity, diversity, inclusion, and RSJ
Executes self-care and wellness practices as an ECE professional
Draws from a diversity of current/historical events to promote meaningful learning and teachable moments
Virtual Camp Session Dates & Times:
Live Camp Sessions:
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons May 6 - June 8 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
*No meeting on May 20 and June 3
Asynchronous Independent Assignment and Observations:
Tuesdays May 18, 25, and June 1 from 9:00am - 12:00pm
About Dr. Sharon Knight:
Dr. Sharon Knight (she/her) credits her love and passion for education, people, and social justice for making her the skilled multicultural educator, servant leader, and unwavering race and social justice activist she is today.
Via lenses of spirituality, civic responsibility, and wellness, Dr. Knight engages educators in meaningful, multicultural, and multidimensional experiences to guide and support them in discovering their passions, pursuing their purpose, mastering their craft, and becoming holistic contributing multicultural beings.
Dr. Knight's Six Strategies:
Administer a “No blame, no shame,” strength-based approach
Deliver through the lens of race and social justice, data-driven and research-based practices
Support holistic (body, culture, mind, and spirit) individual and collective development
Reflect critically with a focus on systems management and with the vision, mission, goals, outcomes, and impact in mind
Apply culturally relevant, multidimensional approaches to meet multiple intelligences, learning preference and styles, and personality types of diverse learning populations
Commit to maintaining servant leadership principles and practices
We invite you to learn more about this event and register to secure your spot today. For more information and offerings by DEEL's Quality Practice & Professional Development Team, please visit us at qppdtraining.com.
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