Cultural Competence and Social Justice Leadership

Overview

Compare today's educational needs for diversity and cultural awareness to historical inequality in schools. Understand how your own personal opinions can affect your leadership style and how cultural interpretation and perspectives in general integrate with social justice and action plans. Use reputable standards such as the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to assess your school's or district's status and growth.

Learn how to improve core values and responses to students' needs using the Guiding Principles of Cultural Proficiency. Prepare yourself to lead other educators into an environment designed for access and opportunity and set your students up for success with Cultural Competence and Social Justice Leadership at University of California, Riverside.

What You'll Learn

• Differences and similarities with historical inequality in schools
• Methods to examine policies and practices against the impressions and results of action plans and used approaches
• Standards to use for analysis and policy development for cultural proficiency, and equal opportunity and barrier assessment for marginalized and privileged students