SUPPORTING NEW AMERICANS: WELCOMING + TRANSITION + INTEGRATION
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: WORKPLACE
Featured Training
All Sectors: Business, non-profit, healthcare, resettlement, education, URM foster care
Establish a baseline understanding of the language, pathways, and policies relative to the experience of US immigration (including immigrants, migrants, asylum seekers + asylees, refugees, SIVs, URMs, and Humanitarian Parolees).
Root down into the theme of identity to gain a clear understanding of culturally relevant and sustaining practice (CRSP).
Employ culturally-responsive and linguistically affirmative approaches to messaging/communication, education, healthcare, employment onboarding, and wrap-around integration support
Establish a foundation and common language around trauma in working with CLDE/dynamic populations.
Understand how significant trauma shapes learning (including language development and language acquisition), social integration, and friend-making.
Recognize, honor, practice, and advocate for culturally + linguistically dynamic approaches to mental health, including trauma-informed practice.
Develop an awareness of Risk Factors that many New Americans face- and gain confidence in facilitating Protective Factors to counter them.
Have the tools to create/refine safe, cooperative spaces for newcomer client groups (and all populations).
Workshop dozens of practical, evidence-based tools and strategies to meet newcomer clients where they are.
Throughout, we’ll center the voices and experiences of refugee and immigrant newcomers in our learning communities.
Business + NP Enterprise Trainings
FOSTERING AUTHENTIC INCLUSIVENESS
Growing an understanding of personal identity, including elements of race, ethnicity, nationality, heritage, and culture.
Interactive biases workshop and antiracist workshopping (race, religion, gender equality, gender orientation, ability/disability, and economic/status identification)
Intensive examinations of key cultural value systems, customs, norms and expectations
Mitigating adverse implications of contrasting cultural norms in order to support employee cooperation and high-level productivity.
Discovering value in individual skills and perspectives
Building and maintaining a workplace culture that celebrates, nourishes, and benefits from diversity
CULTURAL COMPETENCY: BEST PRACTICES
MEETING THE NEEDS OF YOUR WORKFORCE AND TARGET SERVICE POPULATION
Creating a foundation and common language around personal identity, including elements of race, ethnicity, nationality, heritage, and culture.
Exploration of critical culturally-driven disparities
Introduction to a framework for cultural competency
Strengthening the ability to effectively communicate from a culturally-responsive lens
Building a tool box for best practices that supports participants in developing and expanding cultural agility
CUSTOM OFFERINGS
ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTING
INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING / IMPLEMENTATION
PD WORKSHOP 1
CDE EL CREDIT ALIGNMENT: 5.12(1) ELEMENT A
PD WORKSHOP 2
CDE EL CREDIT ALIGNMENT: 5.12(1) ELEMENT A, 5.12(2) ELEMENT B, 5.13(1) ELEMENT A:, 5.13(2) ELEMENT B, 5.14(1) ELEMENT A, 5.14(2) ELEMENT B 5.15(1) ELEMENT A, 5.15(2) ELEMENT B
PD WORKSHOP 3
CDE EL CREDIT ALIGNMENT: 5.12(1) ELEMENT A, 5.15(1) ELEMENT A
PD WORKSHOP 4
CDE EL CREDIT ALIGNMENT: 5.12(1) ELEMENT A, 5.15(1) ELEMENT A
PD WORKSHOP 5
CDE EL CREDIT ALIGNMENT: 5.12(1) ELEMENT A, 5.13(2) ELEMENT B
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Culturally responsive program design
Culturally responsive print materials
Facilitated community partnerships that engage refugee and immigrant populations
Community outreach for culturally/linguistically diverse populations
Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Resolutions
Education Space Services + Trainings
Multilingual PROGRAM AUDIT & FACILITATED DESIGN SERVICES
Survey and detailed analysis of current programming
Recommendations for defining and refining services
Essential tools and resources for EL intake, placement, assessment, curriculum, teacher evaluation, parent engagement and community resources
Creation/review of NC Policy and Procedures Handbook
Tailored to meet the needs of each individual district and/or school population
SPECIFIC TO SITE PROGRESS PLAN AND GOALS
Recommended in conjunction with audit, in which ELD needs and goals are established
EL data analysis, goal-setting and plan-of-action workshop
Semester, year or multi-year service increments
One-on-one blocks of time with teachers and/or ELD site leads
Includes observations, feedback cycles, instructional tools, cohort collaboration and classroom modeling of strategies.
Embedded Google classroom to house resources and facilitate communication
Online and phone support for teachers/administrators outside of coaching sessions
Assistive progress monitoring toward school/district goals and/or EL compliance
THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE: UNDERSTANDING [REFUGEE, ASYLEE & SIV] POPULATIONS, POLICY, & BEST PRACTICES FOR POSITIVE INTEGRATION OUTCOMES
Refugee, asylum seeker, SIV, immigrant, and migrant distinctions
Refugee resettlement processes
A brief history of English language learning pedagogy in the United States
A highlight of norms, values, and culturally responsive practices specific to demographics in an organization’s geographical region.
Local and national resources available to Newcomer students and their families
Overview of rights guaranteed to refugee and immigrant students
Mechanisms for involvement and advocacy on behalf of multi-cultural learners
ML/newcomer INSTRUCTIONal Best Practices & UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNiNG (UDL) FOR MLS
Essential elements of UDL and their relationship to EL success
Key strategies for sheltered instruction and their relationship to UDL
Facilitative classroom design
Crafting Content-Language Objectives
Language rich / balanced stimuli learning environments
Oral production and co-operative learning structures
21st century learning infusions for ELLs
Multicultural classroom resources
Lesson planning through the SIOP framework (optional)
MITIGATING CULTURALLY SENSITIVE TRAUMA
Naming trauma as a form of transition shock
Classroom indicators for transition stress and extreme grief
Transition shock & the learning brain
Transition shock and language acquisition
Cultural implications for mitigating transition shock
Teacher tools & strategies for diffusing the effects of trauma
In-school and off-campus resources for care related to trauma, stress, grief and transition
Exploring IDENTITY + CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING & LEARNING
Growing an understanding of student identity, including elements of race, ethnicity, nationality, heritage, and culture.
Interactive biases workshop
/introduction to culturally responsive pedagogy
Intensive examinations of key cultural value systems, customs, norms and expectations- specific to your unique student demographics
Mitigating adverse implications of contrasting cultural norms in order to support students’ socio-academic success.
Building and maintaining a school culture that celebrates and nourishes diversity
Classroom best practices that are culturally inclusive and spur student investment
ML/newcomer PARENT ENGAGEMENT
Applying an asset-based lens to EL family engagement
Opening lines of school-to-home communication
Creating authentic opportunities for exchange
Recognizing and harnessing families' funds of knowledge
Building capacity for increased ESL parent voice and leadership
Taking part in meaningful teacher home visits
Facilitating positive perceptions from school-home and home-school.
Building capacity for teachers as community ambassadors
Fostering a community-wide culture of respect, inclusion & understanding