Your Brain on Culture
June 2, 2022 @ ESU 9
🧠Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning
Last summer, ESU 9 offered "Culture & the Brain" utilizing the work of Zaretta Hammond. There is still so much to learn! Join us again or for the first time to engage in practices that support, engage, and empower the learning of all students. If you were present in 2021, note that we will continue the learning journey. If this is your first time, you will fit right in and engage in the following:
- Explore the Academic Mindset Cycle
- Investigate the Culturally Responsive Brain Rules
- Practice strategies embedded in the READY for RIGOR Framework: Awareness, Learning Partnerships, Information Processing, and Community of Learners and Learning Environment
- Learn about the Habits of Mind by Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed
Resources
- Costa, L., A, Ed, Kallick, Bena, & Ed. Discovering & Exploring Habits of Mind. A Developmental Series, Book 1., 2000. Retrieved January 06, 2022 from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED439101
- Nebraska Education Profile - Nebraska Dept of Education. (n.d.). https://nep.education.ne.gov/
- The Opportunity Myth: What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down—and How to Fix It. (2018) https://tntp.org/assets/documents/TNTP_The-Opportunity-Myth_Web.pdf
Workshop Information
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: ESU 9 @ 5807 Osborne Drive West, Hastings, NE
Facilitator: Kristen Slechta
Cost:
$20 per person for Title II-A Consortium Members
$80 per person for non-Title II-A Consortium Members
$100 per person outside of the ESU#9 region
Title II-A Consortium Member Schools: Adams Central, Blue Hill, Doniphan-Trumbull, Giltner, Kenesaw, Red Cloud, Silver Lake, and Sutton.
Possible Optional College Credit: 1 credit hour available through Hastings College - $225