Culturally, Responsive, Sustaining and Humanizing Education Services

AEP CRSH Curriculum and Instruction Institutes

Are you searching for a new direction in curriculum and instruction that will empower students to find their academic identity and voice?

Our CRSH Institute is intentionally focused upon modeling teaching practices and methods that teachers can use the very next day of class and throughout the entire school year. The two-day intensive emphasizes the following: 

1. Creating authentic caring relationships with youth from community & cultural wealth of students and families
2. Cultivating student identity/identities and voice through emancipating teaching practices
3. Humanizing teaching practices and methods rooted in Indigenous epistemologies
4. Implementing CRSH practices in academic content, school climate, and policies

AEP CRSH Administrative and Counseling Track: 

Are you striving to create a humanizing school climate that ensures equity for all students?

School leaders who are looking for ways to develop a sustaining school culture that is grounded in culturally responsive, sustaining, and humanizing practices will find our CRSH Administrative and Counseling Track a powerful experience. This track is a year long commitment that includes the following: 

1. Administration and Counseling CRSH Institute which focuses upon innovative theoretical and applied research in culturally responsive, sustaining, and humanizing education practices. Themes such as implementing CRSH practices in academic content, school climate, and policies. 
   
2. Learning Walks - Multiple diagnostic visits to school sites with site/district administrators and AEP Associates to observe the implementation of CRSH planning.
   
3. Quarterly professional development and planning with AEP associates - Throughout the year AEP associates will work closely with site administrators and counselors in developing, evaluating and revising plans, benchmarks, and diagnostic tools. AEP will continue to develop the CRSH acumen of teachers and build sustainable education practices.
4. All evaluations, plans, benchmarks and diagnostic tools are authentically designed and generated together with faculties, administrative teams, and communities for school site personalization.

AEP Ethnic Studies Professional Development: 

Are you planning to implement Ethnic Studies classes at your school district or looking for ways to support your current Ethnic Studies teachers and programs?

Our AEP Ethnic Studies PD will help develop teacher capacity for the implementation of Ethnic Studies in your school district through custom educator training experiences, as well as help your current Ethnic Studies program reach even higher academic outcomes for your students.  AEP Associates are some of the leading K-16 Ethnic Studies educators in the nation who have experience in program and curriculum design, and creating Ethnic Studies programs that have eliminated the achievement gap. Custom services include, but are not limited to: 

1. CRSH Ethnic Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy Institutes
2. Collaborative Curriculum Construction
3. Observations, Debriefs, and Coaching with Ethnic Studies Teachers
4. Consultation for Ethnic Studies Program Development 

AEP CRSH Teaching Laboratory: 

Are you interested in an innovative professional development program where your educators  co-construct curriculum unit plans, provide case studies from their classrooms, and model CRSH teaching practices with AEP teaching experts?

The Teaching Lab approach is an effort to begin shifting the focus of the training from AEP associates to a shared approach with the teachers from your district or school through CRSH case study presentations or teaching demonstrations. 

Building upon the collaborative learning from our CRSH Institutes, AEP provides quarterly Teaching Laboratory days throughout the school year. The protocol in the Teaching Lab include the continued facilitation of CRSH themes, presentations of educator case studies focusing on the implementation of CRSH practices in the classroom or school, and sample teaching models for potential unit/lesson plans or policies. Examples of these themes: 

1. Cultivating Identity and Voice through Self-Reflection and Critical Consciousness
2. Authentic Community Engagement through Academic Content
3. Co-constructing CRSH Educational Practices with Youth and Communities
4. Introduction to Youth Participatory Action Research

The Lab space is also a fertile area where we invite youth and community members to help co-construct curriculum and/or policy changes based in CRSH practices with our partner school districts.