In this C.A.R.E. module—Culturally Responsive—educators will explore how opportunity gaps fuel achievement gaps. Students from diverse backgrounds bring their varied cultural, racial, and socio-economic characteristics and experiences to school. Participants will explore the role that educators and the community stakeholders can play while identifying concrete strategies for increasing student engagement to create opportunities and valuable learning experiences for diverse learners.

Part 2 deals with the maximizing the broad range of student abilities and fostering student resilience. Participants will examine their own practice and apply new strategies for developing student abilities and resilience in their own work.

Based on the NEA C.A.R.E. Curriculum and broken down into three separate workshops, C.A.R.E. strategies prepare educators to implement research-based approaches that maximize the value that diverse groups of students bring with them to school. Part 3 focuses on the role of effort in learning and how educators can use a systems-based approach to implementing a culturally competent learning environment. Participants will apply learnings from all three modules of the C.A.R.E. curriculum to create a capstone project demonstrating how they will implement what they’ve learned to create practices that are culturally competent. This workshop is free to MSEA members and will [...]

Join us on Saturday, March 18 for the 2023 IPD Conference. This year’s theme is Moving Forward Together in a Dynamic World. When you reflect on what you have learned as an educator in 2022, how do you reimagine professional learning? Come inspire and empower fellow educators at MSEA’s IPD Conference. Conference Strands 1) New Educator Survival 101 2) School Engagement Reinvented 3) Elevating Our Diverse Communities 4) Collaboration within School Communities Schedule Welcome: 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Keynote/Session 1: 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session 1/Keynote: 10:35 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Lunch: 11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. Session 2: [...]