Virtual Courses for Educators & Youth Workers

Our goal at the Center is to provide transformational learning opportunities to educators who want to build their capacity to interrupt predictable patterns of disparities. While the Center offers week-long and year-long learning for educators, we are excited to introduce topic-specific, education-focused courses in a virtual setting throughout the school year!

All courses are ideal for PreK-12 educators and youth workers. Dates and times can be found on the registration page. Descriptions and learning objectives for each VIRTUAL course are as follows (Ideal for PreK-12 educators and youth workers):

Developing Culturally Responsive Practice

Learn how to effectively incorporate impactful, cultural responsiveness into your practice.

• Learn the history of Culturally Responsiveness in education
• Clarify the need for Cultural Responsiveness in and out of the classroom
• Dissect your own cultural preferences and examine the ways in which this impacts your practice
• Unpack strategies to engage with your curriculum and students differently by interpreting the 5Rs in Cultural Responsiveness

Reimagining Family Partnership

Explore strategies for building strong, supportive relationships with families.

• Briefly unpack the role of Culturally Responsive Teaching in developing family partnerships
• Engage in an internal and external process of understanding and redesigning cultural frames around family partnership
• Identify inclusive family partnership practice
• Investigate ways of implementing policy that centers families

Asset-Based Communication

Discover techniques for powerful communication that centers students’ strengths.

• Identify the ways in which schooling has historically viewed students from a deficit perspective
• Study the power of language and the impact of cultural frames
• Learn redirection strategies that are culturally responsive and restorative
• Understand the difference between exclusionary discipline and inclusive practice

Redefining Discipline

Examine disciplinary practices and develop strategies to build inclusion and accountability.

• Analyze the urgent need to redefine discipline
• Understand the impact of current disciplinary policy
• Explore possibilities of inclusive practice that builds a culture of accountability
• Understand the difference between exclusionary discipline and inclusive practice

BIPOC Affinity

Join fellow Black, Indigenous, People of Color, antiracist educators to deepen your understanding of building community and identity through racial affinity.

• Build a collective community of BIPOC educators
• Understand the importance of BIPOC affinity
• Examine and explore the racial identity development model 
• Unpack the ways in which whiteness impacts BIPOC personally and professionally

White Affinity

Join fellow white, antiracist educators to deepen your understanding of building community and identity through racial affinity.

• Build a collective community of white, antiracist, educators 
• Understand the importance of white affinity
• Examine and explore the racial identity development model 
• Unpack the ways in which whiteness impacts white people personally and professionally

CEI will gladly issue a completion certificate that participants may use for three professional development units/credits (PDUs). Participants must work with their own certifying bodies for acceptance.

Interested in registering for multiple courses?

• Register for more than one course for an automatic 10% off a second course at checkout!
• Register for 5 courses for an automatic 15% off your total cost! (Limited time offer 12/16/24-1/17/25)