CPE Winter Institute 2021

Posted on January 22, 2021by Cate Svendsen 

Associate Kindergarten Teacher

Summary of workshop/opportunity

This years workshop was centered around moving beyond the "either/or" binary thinking that exists in today's schools. Lead my Rosetta Lee, we discussed the conflicts inside the classrooms, and walked us through a powerful tool to guide our new way of thinking, moving away from binary conversations.

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Based on what I learned…

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What are you going to START doing?

I am going to start bringing this new way of thinking into the classroom and make sure that it becomes part of the lessons. As I create lessons, I want to think through how it is either promoting non binary thinking or just perpetuating the old conversations. I liked the tool we learned, breaking down each possible approach to a problem into four different segments and brainstorming the pros and cons to each.

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What are you going to STOP doing?

I am going to stop bringing in binary thinking into the classroom, either consciously or subconsciously because that was the system I was brought up in and there are so many more conversations to be had that bring an infinite number of ways to think about a problem or approach a situation or a lesson.

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What are you going to CONTINUE doing?

I want to continue my own personal education on the best way to lead a non binary way of teaching by attending more PD opportunities, doing my own reading and through having the difficult conversations.

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Would you recommend this workshop?
Yes.

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Interested in collaborating or do you have questions about Diversity in Governance Roundtable?

Reach out to Cate directly to begin a conversation!

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PD ID# 226