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Summer Symposium 2008
Culturally Responsive Leadership
Workshop facilitators
Ted Luck, Supervisor Education That Is Multicultural and
Gifted and Talented
Maria Whittemore, Minority Achievement Coordinator
EXPECTATIONS
In order to make this
session a meaningful
experience for you, please
complete the following:
•During this workshop I
expect to learn……
•Culturally responsive
leadership means…..
Objectives
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To define Culture
To analyze Culturally Responsive Leadership
To identify Cultural Competency
To provide an opportunity to self-assess
leadership related to culture
To examine the impact of developing cultural
responsive leadership skills
Surface/Deep Iceberg Model of Culture
Culture: Learned behaviors, traditions, beliefs,
and way of life created by a group of people
Elements of Culture
•Values and Beliefs
•Communication Patterns (Language/Dialect)
•Social Relationships
•Diet and Food Preparation
•Dress and Other Body Decoration
•Religion and Religious Practice
•Family (Structure)
•Traditions and Customs
•View of Time
•Recreation/Leisure
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes of
A Culturally Competent School Leader
Self-Assessment
Rate Your Leadership
(on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 as the highest / strongest)
Life is lived from the inside out
The greater clarity you have on the inside,
the more precise your actions on the outside.
Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally
Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy
ConsiderationsThe Institute for Educational Leadership
Key Points:
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School leaders need to understand and value the
demographic realities of the children they serve.
School leaders must search for ways to work more
successfully with students from diverse backgrounds
Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally
Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy
ConsiderationsThe Institute for Educational Leadership
Key Points:
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There are numerous competencies and strategies
required of school leaders to meet the needs of the
growing diversity in our schools.
Courageous conversations are required in order to
prepare school leaders to serve all of the children
enrolled in our schools
Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally
Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy
ConsiderationsThe Institute for Educational Leadership
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Key Points:
Educational leaders who are not culturally
competent cannot be fully effective.
Culturally competent leaders work to understand
their own biases as well as patterns of
discrimination.
Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally
Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy
ConsiderationsThe Institute for Educational Leadership
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Much of what culturally competent leaders must know
and be able to do is learned in relationships with
families and communities.
Culturally competent leadership develops overtime and
needs to be supported from preparation through
practice.
Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally
Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy
Considerations- The Institute for Educational Leadership
Key Points:
We need to build a sense of urgency about
preparing culturally competent leaders in order
to eliminate achievement gaps.
Definition of Cultural
Competence
Cultural
Competence” refers to a set of congruent behaviors,
attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or
among professionals that enable them to work effectively in crosscultural situations.
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word “cultural” is used because it implies the integrated
pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts,
communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions
of a racial, ethnic, religious, or social group.
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word “competence” is used because it implies having the
capacity to function effectively.
Definition of
Cultural Competence
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A culturally competent “System of Care” acknowledges
and incorporates at all levels the importance of culture,
the assessment of cross-cultural relations, vigilance towards
the dynamics that result from cultural differences and
the expansion of cultural knowledge and the adaptation of
services to meet culturally-unique needs.
“Them and Us”
produced by Learning Seed
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What did you see from a new angle?
What squared (agreed) with something you already
believed?
What did you learn that was new, that completed a
circle of knowledge?
What personal connections can you make?
Three Essential Ingredients of
Cultural Competency
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Self-Knowledge
Experience
Positive Change
Three Essential Ingredients of
Cultural Competency
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The most important
ingredient of Cultural
Competence is SelfKnowledge at “Deep
Thought” levels. “Deep
thought is similar to the
iceberg concept of deep
culture in that the thoughtful
analysis and understanding of
the idea goes beyond the
superficial level to that of
introspection and selfunderstanding”. Wade Nobles
Examining our Cultural and Class Knapsack
In Order to Be Culturally and Interculturally
Competent—Cultural Assessment or Cultural
Therapy
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Assumptions about the Self and
the “Other”
Perceptions and Predilections of
the “Other”
Images of the “Other”
Stereotyping and Beliefs of the
“Other”
Engaging in Some “Courageous
Conversations” a la Glen
Singleton and C. Linton, 2006.
Stereotyping and Cultural
Imagination
Three Essential Ingredients of
Cultural Competency—Number Two
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The second critical ingredient of cultural
competency is Experience.
Engaging in unmediated experiences with
different cultural groups.
Gathering “Insider” and “Outsider” cultural
insights.
a la James Banks
Three Essential Ingredients of
Cultural Competency—Number Three
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The third essential ingredient of
Cultural Competency is Positive
Change.
Cultural Competency does not
exist without demonstrated
positive change both in the
educational setting and the real-life
world in which the student must
function.
Cultural Competence replaces the
earlier ideas of cultural sensitivity
and awareness that were often
embraced without a corresponding
change in behavior.
The Road to
Cultural
Competency
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A Lifelong
Journey…
Cultural Competency: Developing behaviors,
attitudes, practices, and policies that reflect the
integration and transformation of cultural
knowledge, skills, and awareness about
individuals and groups of people into standards,
policies, practices to increase the quality of
interactions and outcomes
Cultural Knowledge: Familiarization with selected
cultural characteristics, histories, values, belief systems,
and behaviors of members of another cultural group
Cultural Awareness: Developing sensitivity and understanding
of another ethnic group. Awareness and sensitivity also refer to the
qualities of openness and flexibility that people develop in relation
to others.
Putting It All Together
With a Partner, Discuss the Following Questions:
 What is culture?
 What is the connection between cultural
competence and culturally responsive leadership?
 What are your next steps?
Culturally Responsive Leadership is
 Validating
 Comprehensive
 Multidimensional
 Empowering
Your Questions?
Comments?