***CANCELLED*** Washburn Academy: Journey to Responsiveness

Dr. Sharroky Hollie will present a concrete definition of culturally responsiveness and why it is necessary in our schools today. Discussion will include addressing the needs of underserved students within sociopolitical context of the American education system, effective instructional strategies, building academic vocabulary, affirming cultural vocabularies, and use of slang in youth culture.  In addition, team and individual work time will be provided to develop strategic plans to share and implement in the classroom and share with staff.

Professor Sharroky Hollie is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators in the area of cultural responsiveness. Since 2000, Dr. Hollie has trained over 150,000 educators and worked in nearly 2000 classrooms. Going back 25 years, he has been a classroom teacher at the middle and high school levels, a central office professional development coordinator in Los Angeles Unified School District, a school founder and administrator, and university professor in teacher education at the Cal State University. Sharroky has also been a visiting professor for Webster University in St. Louis and a guest lecturer at Stanford and UCLA.

In addition to his experience in education, he has authored several texts and journal articles. Most recently, he wrote Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (2015) and contributed a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of African American Language (2015). Dr. Hollie's first book, Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning: Classroom Practices for Student Success was published in 2011, followed soon thereafter by The Skill to Lead, The Will to Teach, co-written with Dr. Anthony Muhammad. Also, Dr. Hollie has been a contributing author with Pearson publishing in the Cornerstone and Keystone textbook series (2009), Prentice Hall Anthology (2012), and iLit e-series (2014). In 2003, he and two colleagues founded the Culture and Language Academy of Success, a laboratory school that demonstrated the principles of cultural responsiveness in an exemplary school wide model, which operated until 2013.

• Cost: $300.00
• Granola bars will be provided for breakfast.
• Lunch will be served each day.
• Water, coffee, and tea provided. There will be no soda provided.

Early registration is imperative! Register by May 4, 2018 to secure your seat. 

If participation requirements are met by the above date, registration will remain open until capacity is met or 7 days prior to the first date of the event. 

All Washburn Academy course will be offered for graduate credit exclusively through UW-La Crosse. Up to three (3) graduate credits can be earned through participation, attendance, personal reflections, and written assignments. Please note that each credit costs $130.00. This fee is separate than the workshop fee and is made payable to UW-La Crosse. A UW-L representative will be on site the first day of each workshop to answer questions and assist with the registration process. The cost breakdown is below.

• 1 credit = $130-----Total Workshop Cost*: $430.00
• 2 credits = $260---Total Workshop Cost*: $560.00
• 3 credits = $390---Total Workshop Cost*: $690.00

*Total workshop cost reflects workshop fee and credit fee combined. The workhshop fee is paid to CESA #4 and the graduate credit fee is paid to UW-La Crosse. Graduate credits are optional. However, all participants will be charged the workshop fee.  

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