Open to educators and business professionals from all levels: Accredited courses that are offered for graduate, CEU and Act 48 credit toward professional and personal growth. Each of the 3-credit courses listed below is experiential, non-confrontational, fun and will allow you to leave with a greater knowledge that you will find to be relevant and useful for both your professional and personal life. These courses include:
Diversity Awareness in Education: A New Perspective for a Changing World
Being An Ally: Confronting Homophobia in the Classroom
Diversity Awareness in Communication: Healthy Dialogue & Conflict Resolution
Activating Diversity Awareness: Creating Positive Change
Course DescriptionThis course is specifically designed as a follow-up to Diversity Awareness in Education: A New Perspective for a Changing Classroom and Being an Ally: Confronting Homophobia in the Classroom. Although not required, it is highly recommended that those courses be taken first. Workshop participants should enter this course possessing a comprehensive understanding of “unearned privilege; white racial identity; and heterosexism”. Course participants will leave with the knowledge and skills necessary to create constructive educational and social change on a scale that can extend beyond the classroom as it pertains to all facets of diversity awareness.
Participants will
- Attain an expanded knowledge of racial identity in America.
- Differentiate the components of a functional vs. dysfunctional organizational system in relation to diversity initiatives.
- Develop a vision of a positive school community and society through social action.
- Design the necessary steps for creating positive social change in your educational community beyond the classroom.
- Recommend a personal plan of action for creating positive social change in your school community as it relates to diversity.
What folks say about “Activating Diversity Awareness: Creating Positive Change”
Professional Value
- “What a fantastic follow-up to the two prerequisite courses.”
- "I am amazed at how much more there was to learn that I can continue to use as an educator regarding diversity.”
- “One of the most valuable courses I have ever taken. It really helps educators realize that we make such a mark in the lives of all of our students
Personal Value
- “I feel strong, empowered and able to take something back to work and to my life.”
- “I feel like I have a great confidence in being an activist for positive change in all facets of my life as a result of this course.”
- “This course makes you feel as if you will never be alone again in what you believe about making the world a better place.”
Workshop Environment
- “Each and every moment became a teachable moment in this class!”
- “What a beautiful environment of camaraderie as so many of us from the previous courses came together and just took off!”
- “Great fun and great learning too.”
