Child Care Programs
Introduction to Social Justice
In this session, participants will build an understanding of what social justice and privilege are in the context of structural racism and inequality in the United States. Participants will reflect on their own experiences around privilege and structural racism, and how racial and economic inequality have affected their lives so far. Through discussion, readings, and reflection, participants will also explore the root causes and dynamics of structural racism and inequality.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving organizations
*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
The Power of Relationships
This session will explore the importance of relationship building when doing social justice, diversity and equity work with young people, communities, and other organizations alike. We will share best practices around how to most effectively build relationships when working with young people and in communities. We will also explore how our own identities show up in our relationship building with others and learn how to navigate the impact of our identities on connecting with others.
Participants will have the opportunity to share challenges they have have encountered when trying to build relationships in their own work, and get feedback on how to more effectively address those situations in the future. The goal of this workshop is to underscore the value of building authentic, genuine and strong relationships and to provide tangible strategies for how to effectively connect.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving organizations
*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Part 1: Culturally Responsive Teaching: How to Build an Inclusive Classroom and Curriculum
In this session, participants will understand concepts of cultural competency, culturally responsive teaching and multicultural education and the difference between intent and impact as it relates to their work with young people. Participants will reflect on their own personal preferences and biases, especially around issues of diversity and identity, and will build an understanding of how their personal preferences and biases affect relationship building with young people. The group will identify effective strategies for communicating both with young people who may share similar life experiences to them and who may be different than them.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving organizations
Want a customized version of this learning module? We can also offer this topic in 2-, 3-, and 4-hour versions. This session can also be bundled with Part 2 of Culturally Responsive Teaching. Just contact us!
*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Part 2: Culturally Responsive Teaching: How to Build an Inclusive Classroom and Curriculum
After completing Part 1 of this series, this second session will take participants through how to create culturally responsive lesson plan. Participants will learn best practices for how to design lesson plans, both in the way of content and process, that are inclusive, culturally relevant, and engaging for students. Participants will contribute best practices from their own experiences and will also have space to workshop challenges they’ve encountered in their work as educators to get feedback from other practitioners and work time to incorporate the strategies and lessons learned in this two part series.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving organizations
Want a customized version of this learning module? This session can be offered in 2-, 3-, and 4-hour formats. Just contact us!
*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Accessibility Awareness and Inclusion Techniques
In this workshop, participants will work with accessibility and learning advocates to address attitudinal barriers towards disability equality. Identify language and best practices within your environment that will empower your staff to activate inclusive practices and techniques and establish a framework of mutual understanding and respect for diversity and difference. This training will cover an overview of Universal Design and Universal Design Learning, disability language, and best practices for working with and being inclusive of people and learners with disabilities. Participants will gain a better overall understanding of accessibility and will leave with the tools to provide and share-out these awareness-building skills within their institution.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving non-profits
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Learning Lab: Accessible Curriculum Design and Lesson-Plans
Work with experienced accessibility educators to design curricula and specific lesson-plans for after-school and recreation programs or community-based programming that will be more universally accessible. In this workshop you will learn about best practices in the field of accessible education with a focus on sensory and multi-modal learning. This workshop will introduce current thinking and best practices within accessible education and, through a hands-on workshop, inspire and challenge your staff to augment lesson plans and teaching strategies to be inclusive a wide variety of learners.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving non-profits
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
At the Museum: Object-based learning field trip at a NYC Cultural Institution
Object-based learning encourages close-looking, critical analysis, and communication skills. In this field trip, visit a NYC cultural institution with your trainer to learn about how to best utilize the city’s cultural resources for your programs and to implement object-based teaching techniques that you can bring back to the classroom. Participants will learn strategies for a variety of object-based learning techniques practiced by professional museum educators and will engage in hands-on learning by developing on site lesson-plans and activities. Participation in this program is limited to 15 people.
*Institution and trainer will work collaboratively to identify a site based upon availability and goals.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving non-profits
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Book Club
Many educators and youth-serving professionals know CASEL as a leader in the SEL field who promotes five social and emotional competencies. Other organizations, such as Transforming Education, add to the national conversation by aggregating evidence and presenting alternative frameworks. Foundations, including the Susan Crown Exchange, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Wallace Foundation, have supported efforts to clarify the SEL field and build evidence of the impact of SEL. This offering uses readings, including reports and resources from leaders in the field, selections from the Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning, and peer review publications at the foundation of evidence-based SEL, as the basis of a book club format discussion group.
This learning module includes:
- 30-minute planning session with program leaders via videoconference
- 1-hour in-person, interactive book club style discussion for staff
- 4 additional 1-hour virtual book club sessions
- Recommended readings for the book club to continue
Audience: Staff teams at youth-serving non-profits
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Crafting a Sustainable Fundraising Pitch
As anyone in a mission-driven organization knows, fundraising is critical to sustainability and success. It’s hard to fundraise, however, without a compelling pitch. In these coaching sessions, we will work with you to understand the unique value proposition your program, school, or organization offers, and will collaborate with you to develop an effective pitch.
This learning module includes:
- 1-hour kickoff call to better understand your organization’s mission, resources, and fundraising goals
- 2-hour, interactive “What’s in a pitch?” session where we outline the elements of a fundraising pitch and collaboratively craft the key points for yours
- 1 hour of pitch refinement
- 1-hour pitch training for key stakeholders
- 30-minute follow-up coaching call
Audience: School leaders, district leaders
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Delivered by Changemaker Ashley Pinakiewicz
Understanding and Minimizing Implicit Bias
Implicit bias is a natural element of human behavior, but there is work we can do to minimize it. During this session, participants will develop a foundational understanding of implicit biases: where they come from and how they impact us. We will then identify ways to combat biases in our work and personal lives.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Supervisors and front-line staff
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Valuing and Celebrating Our Religious Diversity through Religious Literacy
Nearly 315 religions and denominations exist in the United States alone, and as a result of this increasing diversity in American public schools, the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) has long held the belief that they should be a key part of the social studies curriculum. To meet this mandate, there is a great need for teacher access to high quality religious literacy training across the US. The NCSS states that "knowledge about religion is not only a characteristic of an educated person, but necessary for effective and engaged citizenship in a diverse nation and world." Charles Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Center in Washington, rightly asserts that "millions of parents from diverse religious backgrounds entrust the education of their children to the teachers in our nation's public school" and that "teachers need to be fully informed about the constitutional and educational principles for understanding the role of religion in public education."
This workshop will train administrators, educators, guidance counselors, and youth workers how to talk and teach about religious diversity in a public school setting. The incorporation of religious literacy mitigates faith based prejudice and discrimination as well as create harmonious school communities.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: Educators, school staff, and youth workers
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.
Culturally Sensitive Up-Stander Training
With the growing tide of Islamophobia and the number of hate crime incidents in communities and school settings, this workshop aims to educate individuals on how to be Up Standers without violating religious limitations. It provides step by step strategies on how to be an Up Stander for an observant Muslim by providing cultural sensitivity tips followed by Q/A.
These techniques can be used with anyone being targeted regardless of race, religion, age, etc. The workshop presents how and when to intervene in an incident, offer techniques to distract the harasser, and offer support to the individual who is being targeted. This training incorporates non-invasive techniques and promotes a safe way to stand up to intervene, get the victim to safety, and how to discretely contact police or others to aid the victim.
This session is a 2-hour workshop. For 3 hours, the fee is $1,150, and for 5 hours, the fee is $1400. You will receive follow-up materials to support adoption of practices, and you can request further assistance after the session if needed.
Audience: School staff, students, nonprofit staff, house of worship leaders, and general public
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*Pricing is for NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. If outside of this metro area, additional travel fees may apply.