Overall Workshop Aims:
Provide DEIJ advocates with foundational understandings about:
DEIJ and the self,
DEIJ and your relationship with others, and
DEIJ and your institution.
Assist in creating shared understanding and integrated series of DEIJ-driven practices. Ignite advocacy of DEIJ through awareness, strategic development and transference into your school.
Who is this workshop for:
This workshop is for school leaders, team leaders, staff, faculty and DEIJ advocates who have the will to change and positively impact student and team experiences at school.
What will you learn about:
Workshop sessions will center developing understanding on the listed themes:
Valuing Diversity
Developing critical awareness of diverse communities.
Valuing the diversity of personal and professional identities.
Exploring ways to uncover our diverse landscapes (including stakeholder perspectives) around these issues.
2. Unconscious Bias
Understand how perception, bias and stereotypes are interlinked
Developing critical awareness of a stereotypes wheel: bias, prejudice, discrimination and how rationalisation contributes to the evolvement of systemic practices.
Mitigating bias by utilising power and interrupting decision-making.
3. Power and Behaviours
Understanding respect and dignity, the role of power, and how we can leverage power
Developing critical awareness of types of harm, negative behaviour and the role of safe-guarding.
Strengthening the intersections between DEIJ and safeguarding.
4. Equitable Cultures
Understanding that our behaviours are conditioned through rationalised, cultural norms.
Finding ways to create safe and equitable spaces.
Developing critical analysis of aspects of learning and organizational culture.
5. Knowing our Learning Community
Exploring ways to measure stakeholder perspectives in your learning community.
Determining what data tells us and steps to leverage insights.
Using a continuum on becoming a totally inclusive institution to become a more equitable, inclusive, transformed school.
6. Becoming Totally Inclusive Institutions
Using the continuum and data to plan DEIJ initiatives.
Leveraging positive cultural forces and navigating challenges.
Ongoing measurement of impact of actions.
Igniting individual and collective activism towards becoming a totally inclusive institution.
Registration
Early Bird rate €650.00 (valid until 22 October, 2023)
Standard rate €700.00 (valid until 10 January, 2024)
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Featured speaker
Angeline Aow
Angeline Aow is an international educator and consultant who has taught in schools in Sydney, Singapore, Nanjing and Berlin where she currently resides. Having undertaken multiple roles within schools, as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, accreditation coordinator and professional learning and development coordinator, Angeline has gained unique insights and understandings from multiple perspectives.
Her work as a member of the International Baccalaureate Educator Network (IBEN) and Council of International Schools (CIS) volunteer has provided opportunities for her to work across cultures, borders and languages where she brings together learning communities interested in developing shared understandings and practical steps towards sustainable school growth. Angeline is an advocate of coaching, concept-driven learning and teaching and contributes as an active citizen on social justice issues through her role as a country network leader of @WomenEdDE. She also serves on CIS' Board Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Anti-racism. Since July 2021, Angeline joined the CIS team as a part-time International Advisor focused on supporting the development of inclusion via diversity, equity and anti-racism (I-DEA) whilst continuing her part-time role as PYP coordinator (Upper Elementary) at Berlin International School.
Angeline is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and uses this tool to help individuals and educator teams with the development of intercultural learning. She is also a certified Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction trainer (CBCI) who leads pedagogy development that promotes understanding and transfer. Angeline has completed Cognitive Coaching (I & II) and supports individuals and teams to elevate their autonomy, learner agency, intentionality and impact. She enjoys amalgamating these concepts to co-construct with schools consultations that best serve their contexts and needs.
Angeline co-authored Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: a Guide for Teachers and School Leaders published by Routledge in November, 2022. A review shared by international educators outlines that “the book manages to succinctly explain the urgent need to rethink schools while providing practical first steps for institutions to engage in the necessary work ahead, regardless of their stage in the process” (Ben Thrash, 2023). Angeline believes that every educator and student has the power to impact others to create a just and equitable world.
Email Angeline: angeline.aow@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Angeline Aow
Twitter: @angeaow
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeline-aow-b0b6304/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/angeaow
By booking a registration, you accept the CDLT Terms and Conditions.