Professional Learning
Professional Learning
The professional learning offered by Dr. Howard is designed to equip individuals and organizations with the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work environments, schools, or communities. The experiences are customized trainings aimed at recognizing inequities, fostering culturally responsive practices, and promoting shifts in pedagogy, practice and procedure. Key elements of the professional learning experiences offered by Howard include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cultural Competency Training
- Implicit Bias Awareness
- Equity-Centered Practices
- Generational Responsiveness
- Equity-Centered Leadership Development
- Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice
Reaching and Teaching Black Boys
Reaching and Teaching Black Boys is a professional development seminar catered to the needs of those who have interest in improving outcomes for their African-American male students. As an academic and author, from schoolhouse to summer camps, Dr. Howard has countless experiences that are used as the foundation for his professional development and programming around young men. These seminars are designed to teach educators and guardians of black boys how to best instruct and engage this particular demographic.
The learning experience will allow participants to consider new ways of engaging black boys and strategizing for success, explore the stages of development, brain differences, and cultural patterns of African-American male students, and examine the societal bias in the perceptions of black boys that impact their outcomes.
Engaging Race and Culture
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are the new buzzwords in every organization and workplace across the country. It appears that many professions have recognized that now is the time to promote awareness and pursue a better understanding of the impact of culture on employees and how they engage with those they serve. Is your organization ready for an introduction to conversations about race and culture? Dr. Howard facilitates workshops and seminars that equip individuals to interact, engage, and understand the lived experiences of people of different races and cultures. Exploration of content can range from implicit bias and cultural competency to antiracism and social justice. These sessions are ideal for educators, youth workers, and change agents, or can be tailored for your professional environment.
Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning
As a former counselor educator, Dr. Howard has a professional identity that is rooted in prioritizing students’ personal development. Social emotional learning (SEL) is a means of providing learners with experiences related to self and social awareness, emotion management, relationship building, and responsible decision making. This training supports educators and leaders to recognize SEL as a vital student development approach and how to ensure the inclusion of a cultural and contextual lens. This learning experience will explore how SEL can be aligned with cultural awareness to honor students’ diverse backgrounds and identities, leverage their cultural assets to build stronger relationships, and ensure a student-centered focus that supports all in feeling a sense of belonging in schools.
