Diversity Coaching

NEW - Personalized diversity coaching is now available through DeWayne Street Consulting.

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Be a more effective leader in the face of changing demographics in the work place.

Using Moodle, Skype and email - $500 per month (30 consecutive days) package includes up to 10 hours of customized coaching to assist you with your personal and organization's diversity needs.

Contact DeWayne Street today.

Modules

Using Teams to Implement Response to Intervention (RTI):  Learn how the power of teams can assist your district in the implementation of RTI.  A focus on building collective competence and enhancing personal/professional growth is addressed.  Participants will discover the true difference between teams and groups.

Clouded Practice: The African-American Child in our Schools: This academy takes a look at some of the root causes for the current achievement gap, by examining:  societal marginalization of African-Americans, educational marginalization of African-Americans and internalization of marginalization of African-Americans.  Before solutions to contemporary problems can be effectively addressed, the problems and their causes must be identified.  This academy takes a historical approach to examining the student achievement gap.  Assigned readings prior to the academy, in conjunction with a multi-media presentation that walks through each area of concern, will culminate in small group action learning scenarios, where course participants actively engage in the problem-solving process of real life concerns in their district.

Just Another Student: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student in our Schools:  In this multi-media presentation, history is used, once again, as a foundation.  This presentation uses facts to address the issue of LGBT students in our schools.  Many educators are struggling with this new dynamic and this presentation provides some tools to assist them in their practice.

The Bi-Racial Child in our Schools:  This multi-media presentation features a historical overview of this issue.  Skin preference and colorism are the foci of this presentation.  The goal is for all educators to be aware of how skin preference and colorism may be reflected in our practice.  Once we are aware that it may exist, we can mitigate its impact. 

 The Power of Perception:  Is it Real or is it Me?   This presentation examines some of the more salient aspects of diversity issues.  It features information pertaining to racism, sexism, class, and the power of media with respect to forming our perceptions about all of these issues.  The hallmark of this presentation is that it is based on a historical foundation, which allows the participants to see the systemic patterns of discrimination.  This presentation includes some video clips, still photos, and text slides, it allows the participants to construct their own meaning regarding diversity.

Understanding the Culture of Poverty:  This is also a multi-media presentation which examines poverty and how it affects our students both in and out of school.  The foundation for this presentation is my 16 years in the classroom working mostly with economically marginalized students and their issues.  It is also based on my research trips to Brazil, where I studied at the Paulo Freire Institute while I was there.  This presentation also discusses the new poverty that is stalking our schools.

Academies, Workshops & Presentations

Keynote Presentation: ($5000.00 minimum)

All of the modules may be offered in the Administrator Academy or staff workshop format.

ISBE Approved Administrator Academy

• 6.5 hours on a Saturday or days of your choosing
• Cost: @$5500.00 (call or email for details and pricing specific to your situation)
• practical workshop for administrators (approved by the Illinois State Board of Education) that reveals the systemic patterns of bias and discrimination in our society and how these patterns affect our schools and those who work and learn in them
• format consists of a combination of multimedia presentations, as well as, hands on team learning

Staff Workshop or Presentation

• 3 hour diversity workshop for staff
• Cost: @$2750.00 (call or email for details and pricing specific to your situation)
• format consists of 1 multimedia presentation and 1 action learning session

Professional Development Book Studies

As a stand-alone opportunity or companion activity to the administrator academies, DeWayne Street Consulting will facilitate an online professional development book study with your staff, using Moodle.  Book studies are customized for each client.

• 18 week (or 1 semester) online professional development book study
• Cost: @$4000.00 (call or email for details and pricing specific to your situation)
• format: online with Moodle
• bi-weekly online discussion forums
• synchronous chats

Popular readings, as rated by DSC customers are:

Reflective Practice for Educators: Professional Development to Improve Student Learning

The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in School

Excellent Books

• A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Stephen D. Brookfield
• Crossing the Danger Water : Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing (Paperback) Deirdre Mullane
• Ethnicities, Rumbaut & Portes
• Framework for Understanding Poverty,  Ruby Payne
• Multi-America, Ismael Reed
• Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools, Tammy Turner-Vorbeck and Monica Miller Marsh
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
• Reflective Practice for Educators: Professional Development to Improve Student Learning, Karen F. Osterman & Robert B. Kottkamp
• Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon
• The Nature of Prejudice, Gordon Allport
• The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male, National Urban League
• Two Nations, Andrew Hacker
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Tatum
• Workplace Diversity, Esty, Griffin and Schorr Hirsch

Websites to Visit

Movies to See

• Invictus
• Amelia
• Crash
• Defiance
• The Game of Their Lives
• The Longshots

Newspapers to Read

• Christian Science Monitor
• New York Times
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• The Miami Herald

Actions you can take

• Challenge stereotypes.
• When a racist or misogynistic joke is told, simply do not laugh.
• When someone says, all ________ are this or that, simply say, I do not know all of them.
• See the individual person, not the stereotype.
• Appreciate America’s diversity; do not fear it.
• Create a community of learners based on respect and inclusion.
• Lead by example.