Culture, Community, and Connection:
Building Inclusive Learning Spaces
Practical tools and lessons for promoting social awareness and honoring diversity.
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This training is for:
Education professionals serving youth in grades 6-12
Date:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Time:
3:30 – 5:30 PM Pacific
4:30 – 6:30 PM Mountain
5:30 – 7:30 PM Central
6:30 – 8:30 PM Eastern
Price
$10, $25, or $50 – Includes curriculum you can use right away.
The cost of Culture, Community, and Connection: Building Inclusive Learning Spaces for us is $50 per participant. We understand that different folks are navigating varying levels of access to funding for professional development opportunities. Our sliding scale offers you the opportunity to pay the amount that aligns with the funds that you have available to cover the cost.
Social awareness is how we understand our experiences are similar to or different from others’. Combined with diversity, social awareness is how allyship and solidarity help build community across identities. That’s why we’re offering a new training focused on social awareness and diversity.
In this session, we’ll explore culture and social-emotional learning with a focus on racial and gender equity. We’ll start with personal reflection on communication and understanding different perspectives, then dive into cultural awareness and appreciation. You’ll also practice recognizing and addressing microaggressions to better support marginalized youth and girls of color. Plus, there will be chances to engage in mindfulness and have some fun along the way!
This module’s activities and curriculum are co-designed and tested by girls and gender-expansive youth. Thirty lessons total, spanning developmental stages from grades 6 to 12.
Culture, Community, and Connection: Building Inclusive Learning Spaces Objectives
In this module, you will:
- Introduce social awareness and diversity as fundamental aspects of personal development for ourselves and for the young people we serve
- Create a personal reflection on communication and understanding different perspectives
- Connect social-emotional learning (SEL) skills to understanding the racial and gender implications of social awareness and diversity in the day-to-day experience of marginalized girls
- Practice recognizing and addressing microaggressions to better support marginalized youth and girls of color
- Receive 30 lessons to teach cultural awareness and appreciation to youth in grades 6 – 12
Culture, Community, and Connection: Building Inclusive Learning Spaces Benefits
In both small and large group discussions, we’ll practice storytelling as a tool for empowerment and self-advocacy. Our training model is for adult participants to experience activities that they can then facilitate and model for their young people in classroom and afterschool settings.
- Thirty lessons, spanning from grades 6 to 12, that you can use right away with your class, team, or group
- Practical strategies to grow a deeper understanding of how your experiences are experiences are similar to or different from others’
- Practice in modeling and facilitating activities for young people to explore how allyship and solidarity help build community across identities
- Community-and network-building with other participants exploring similar challenges and goals
Culture, Community, and Connection: Building Inclusive Learning Spaces was developed by Girls Leadership program and curriculum experts to provide SEL skills to youth-serving professionals, and tested by educators and students to ensure it meets their needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I receive credits for this professional development?
If your supervising organization approves this professional development to meet CEUs, we can approve documentation that certifies your hours of participation.
Who is the professional development for?
The sessions are designed for educators, administrators, district leaders, youth-serving professionals, counselors, and formal volunteers who work regularly with youth in grades 6–12.
I’m not sure if I’m ready to register, who can answer my questions? Thank you for your interest in this training. Please fill out this form if you have questions or need additional information to support your registration and our National Engagement Director, Amal Aziz will get in touch with you.
