Culture & Equity Project Summer Institute 2022

Days 1-3: Reciprocal Learning Partnerships for Equity (RLP)

• RLP is a new equity-centered framework for coaching that focuses on relationships and reciprocity in discourse.
• This framework is grounded in developing relational trust, reciprocity, examining identity and positionality, and constructing equity actions.
• RLP takes an explicit stance on the need to address equity in all coaching conversations and centers a partnership where each person brings equal knowledge and skills to disrupt inequitable practices in classrooms.

Day 4: Depowering the Deficit View Through Responsive Social Emotional Learning and Teaching

• Participants will learn how to identify deficit thinking and how to deactivate its power in the classroom, and how personal triggers and implicit biases affect promoting a growth mindset.
• Participants will learn strategies that positively impact students and actively draw upon and explicitly support (sustaining) students’ diverse backgrounds, identities, strengths, and challenges.

Day 5: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

• Culturally responsive pedagogy is an approach that centers students who are typically marginalized in classrooms
• Participants will analyze how the dominant gaze is prevalent throughout educational policies and practices and learn how to center non-dominant cultural behaviors, norms, beliefs and languages.