EDL 604 Fostering Cultural Proficiency, Opportunity and Equity

In this course, candidates will learn skills and guiding principles that foster their cultural proficiency to lead diverse schools and districts, including race, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status. Coursework requires candidates to engage in self-assessment, reflection, understanding of the historical context, and goal-setting around their cultural proficiency. Candidates will also analyze diversity within the school/district setting, examine structures that promote or hinder equitable educational practice, and evaluate policy, curriculum, instruction, assessments, relationships, and opportunity gaps from a cultural proficiency lens. Candidates will learn how to create learning communities where stakeholders feel safe, welcome, and invited, free from bullying, harassment, and discrimination.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to an NLU doctoral program or permission of the EDL Doctoral Program Chair

Corequisite

None