Tier 1 Forum - Equity Enhancements
This three day professional development offering is designed for school teams (including equity leads, and school/division administrators) who have already participated in the PBIS New Team training and have a working understanding of tier 1 PBIS components (matrix, lesson planning, feedback, etc.). Participants will explore key understandings of educational equity such as how identity, biased based beliefs, systemic inequities and microaggressions interplay and impact students' growth, development, and outcomes.
Applying these key understandings, participants will re-examine their PBIS tier 1 systems for potential inequities and strive to ensure their systems are working for ALL students regardless of race, gender, zip code, ability, socio-economic status, and/or languages spoken at home.
Objectives:
- Explore components of cultural responsiveness.
- Analyze school and classroom data through an equity lens, focusing on potential inequities that lie at the root of the data.
- Examine school wide expectations for cultural mismatch and biases.
- Develop lesson plans that first validate and affirm students’ culture(s), and then provide them with skills that build and bridge their understanding of school expectations and how and when to apply them.
- Address how biases and behaviors such as microaggressions, deficit thinking, and colorblindness undermine student success.
- Recognize and practice ways to be a “warm demander” to help mitigate the effects of structural racism and biased based beliefs.
- Identify ways in which instruction can include and honor a student's culture to maximize learning.
Who Should Attend:
This event is for school PBIS teams (at least 2-3 members) who have already completed PBIS New Team Training. School or division equity leads, and administrators are encouraged to attend with their team.