Education Leadership Difficult Conversations: Race
Issued by
East Stroudsburg University
Earners of this badge have successfully navigated a simulation in which they played the role of principal at a suburban, racially and socioeconomically diverse high school, and had to address sensitive issues such as conversations about race with students, and how teaching professionals and district staff can support those conversations. Key stakeholders included an active community member, a young and idealistic English teacher, and an assistant superintendent who is wary of fads in education.
- Type Experience
- Level Advanced
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Addressing sensitive issues such as conversations about race within the classroom while identifying how teaching professionals and district staff can best support those conversations.
- Balancing curriculum needs with demands from students and community to go beyond the prescribed curriculum.
- How to navigate family concerns will addressing diverse identities in the school
- How to professionally respond to families and administration when there is not agreement.
Standards
Effective educational leaders cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that promotes the academic success and well-being of each student.
Effective educational leaders engage families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
Effective educational leaders strive for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
1 - Understanding and Addressing Each Child’s Developmental and Learning Needs 3 - Assessing, Planning, and Designing Contexts for Learning 5 - Developing as a Professional
Effective educational leaders develop, advocate, and enact a shared mission, vision, and core values of high-quality education and academic success and well-being of each student.
Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
Effective educational leaders develop the professional capacity and practice of school personnel to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.