cultural competency training for faculty and staff ......dr. diana artis, ed.d. chair of the...

Dr. Diana Artis, Ed.D.Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Department,

Assistant Director of Admission

Mrs. Eva Ostrowsky, LSWSchool Counselor, Assistant to the Chair of the

Diversity & Inclusion Department

Cultural Competency Training for Faculty and Staff: Starting Courageous Conversations at Your School

1. What are Courageous Conversations?

2. What makes Courageous Conversations work?

3. What does a Courageous Conversation look like?

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Dr. Diana Artis, Ed.D. [email protected]

What are Courageous Conversations?

Opportunities to:- engage in difficult conversations

around the 8 cultural identifiers, as well as power and privilege

- ask questions and learn more about how we can combat harmful patterns at our school

- practice vulnerability that’s essential to the work

Two Tracks:- Faculty and Staff- Administrator

- What is Cultural Competency? An Overview of Identifiers (Beginner)- The Danger of a Single Story (Beginner)- Exploring Identities (Beginner)- Identifier Deep Dive (Intermediate)- Language (Intermediate)- Microaggressions (Intermediate/Advanced)- Unconscious Bias (Intermediate/Advanced)- Privilege (Intermediate/Advanced)- What Do I Do if my Child and/or Student Comes out to Me?

(Intermediate)- Heteronormativity: What is it and how does it Impact the Pingry

Community?

Courageous Conversation Topics: Year 1


- Raising Race Conscious Children, Part I (Beginner)- Raising Race Conscious Children, Part II (Intermediate)- Allyship (Intermediate)- What is Racial Identity Development and How does it Impact the Way

I Move through the World? (Advanced)- Practical Ways to Apply our Cultural Competency to Student and

Parent Interactions (Advanced)- Practicing our Cultural Competency Skills: Role Plays (Advanced)- Safe Space- End-of-Year Debrief

Topics Added in Year 2


- Doing the Work: What Am I Afraid Of? (Open to All Levels)- Cultural Appropriation 101 (Open to All Levels)- What’s in a Name? (Open to All Levels)- Gender 101 (Open to All Levels)- Moving from Theory to Practice: Getting Out of My Head

(Intermediate)- Whiteness: I’m not Caucasian, I’m White (Intermediate)- Unpacking Queerness (Intermediate/Advanced)- Unpacking Ethnicity (Intermediate/Advanced)

Topics Added in Year 3


Administrator Courageous Conversations

What Might Work for your School?


How does what we’ve shared thus far feel for you as you think about your community?

- What might work? - What might be challenging? - How would you recreate this model for your school?

What Works for Us- Voluntary- One-hour- Catered lunch provided- Open to all faculty and staff- Advertise at start of the year

with reminders throughout the year

- Reminder emails prior to lunch

- Discussion-based, small groups with larger group shout-outs, use of video clips

- Feedback survey immediately afterDr. Diana Artis, Ed.D. [email protected]

A taste of one our Courageous Conversations...

Doing the Work: What am I Afraid of?

Doing the Work: What am I Afraid Of?

Courageous Conversation

Norms• Be fully present• Speak from the “I” Perspective• Be self-responsible and

self-challenging• Listen, Listen, Listen and

Process• Lean into discomfort• Experiment with new

behaviors• Suspend judgment of yourself

and others

• Make mistakes and then “let go!”

• Accept conflict and resolution as a necessary catalyst for change

• Be comfortable with silence• Be crisp and say what is core• Treat the candidness of others

as gift – respect confidentiality

Things that worry me about this work...

Write your answer to this on a notecard.

Vulnerability is….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO6n9HmG0qM

Think of a time when you have made yourself vulnerable. What happened? What was the outcome?

Look at your notecard. Think about what Brene Brown talked about.

- Is there anything about what you saw that challenges what you wrote?

- Is there anything that makes you think differently about what you wrote?

- Does this video help you worry less about the things that you wrote?

Some fears about doing the work...● Sharing is difficult.● Others won’t understand.● I don’t want to put myself out there.● I don’t like feeling or appearing incompetent. ● I don’t want to make a mistake, or say something wrong

and intentionally harm someone.● I don’t want to attend the conversation and be passive.

I’m not sure how to participate.● I hide behind scholarly engagement, so I don’t have to

connect personally with the work.● I don’t want to be vulnerable in front of my colleagues. I

worry about how I will be perceived. ● Why do my colleagues need to know this about me?

Think of tasks that you’ve experienced as challenging (e.g.: teaching in a new school, preparing a new class, etc.). What are the steps you took to tackle that challenge?

- Arm myself with knowledge- Learn from others- Be okay with making mistakes- Changing the self-talk to handle difficult emotions- Continual reflection

Now that we’ve addressed some of your fears, what’s your next step in terms of doing the work?

How might these conversations impact the culture at your school?


Thank you for coming!

Dr. Diana Artis, [email protected]

Mrs. Eva Ostrowsky, [email protected]

The Pingry School131 Martinsville RdBasking Ridge, NJ 07920
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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