WEA Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Course Offerings
Culturally Responsive Classroom Management (CRCM) is a professional development series for educators wishing to develop their awareness, knowledge, skills, and advocacy through the lens of CCDEI (Cultural Competencies, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) in school cultures and classrooms.
General Information:
- Courses are offered free of charge to all WEA Members.
- Trainings will be held via Zoom.
- Clock Hours will be provided free for WEA Members.
For any questions regarding these courses, including general information and registration issues, please contact: Ben Ibale at bibale@washingtonea.org or Lama Chikh at lchikh@washingtonea.org.
Course information shared from WEA website. Click here for the Course Catalog or visit the Professional Growth page on the WEA website at https://www.washingtonea.org/events-training/pd/ for more information.
CRCM Modules 1A and 1B: Classroom Communities (TPEP) (5 clock hours)
Thursday, December 7, 2023 and Thursday, December 14, 2023
5:00pm-7:00pm
(2 hours each session plus 1 hour of homework)
This online training series helps educators develop culturally responsive classroom management practices to ensure that students experience a positive, consistent, safe and equitable classroom.Participants learn strategies to appreciate and appropriately integrate their students’ culture and family backgrounds into the classroom culture as a tier one strategy that cultivates connections before applying appropriate classroom management strategies.
Register: 12/7 & 12/14/23
CRCM Modules 2A and 2B: Classroom Relations (TPEP) (5 clock hours)
Thursday, January 4, 2024 and Tuesday, January 16, 2024
5:00pm-7:00pm
(2 hours each session plus 1 hour of homework)
Participants will understand core practices for developing culturally responsive classroom management, and learn how to begin building social relationships, communicating in culturally responsive ways, cultivating a safe and inclusive environment and engaging with families and communities. Participants will also discuss cultural assumptions, views, and beliefs to help reflect on how their own cultural histories and biases may affect their work with students from culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse backgrounds, and receive resources and materials to support their culturally responsive classroom.
Register: 1/4 & 1/16/24
CRCM Modules 3A and 3B: Classroom Interactions (TPEP) (5 clock hours)
Thursday, February 1, 2024 and Thursday, February 8, 2024
5:00pm-7:00pm
(2 hours each session plus 1 hour of homework)
Participants will examine racial justice and the four types of racism as it applies in the public school system, identify Implicit Bias and Microagressions and use strategies to prevent and eliminate in schools and classroom, and identify strategies for building social relationships between students and families. Participants will also develop ideas for communicating in culturally responsive ways, find ways to respond to student needs through facilitating student focus groups, and investigate cultural assumptions, views, and beliefs to understand how one’s own cultural histories and biases may affect work with students from culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse backgrounds.
Register: 2/1 and 2/8/24
CRCM Modules 4A and 4B: Behavior Interventions (TPEP) (5 clock hours)
Thursday, February 15, 2024 and Thursday, February 22, 2024
5:00pm-7:00pm
(2 hours each session plus 1 hour of homework)
Participants will investigate ways to promote positive classroom and social behavior development, identify strategies for implementing culturally responsive behavior interventions that address the underlying causes and functions of behavior, and adapt core principles of culturally responsive behavior intervention to meet the specific the needs of students.
Register: 2/15 & 2/22/24
CRCM Modules 5A and 5B: Responding to Intensive Behaviors
Thursday, March 7, 2024 and Thursday, March 14, 2024
5:00pm-7:00pm
(2 hours each session plus 1 hour of homework)
Module 5 focuses on Tier 2 strategies to reduce our reliance on exclusionary practices to manage student behavior.
Participants will identify school and classroom choices and actions that lead to same outcomes of inequity, exclusion and racism, and execute new school and classroom choices that lead to equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
Register: 3/7 & 3/14/24 (Registration link coming soon.)