Refugee Educators Foundations of Practice Course & Communities of Practice
This facilitated and cohort-based online course is designed by and for educators and other education leaders using an asset-based orientation to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students of refugee backgrounds across the U.S.
Online
$350-500
45-60 hours
Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice Cohorts: Spring & Summer 2023
Early Childhood Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice
This course, designed by educators for educators, offers early childhood educators—be they teachers, caregivers, or community based program staff—resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to nurture the talent and develop the gifts of young children new to the United States and/or from refugee/immigrant families.
This course has already started, so registration is now closed.
K-12 Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice
This course, designed by educators for educators, provides K-12 classroom teachers and school support staff with the resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to cultivate academic achievement and ensure wellbeing for refugee, immigrant, multilingual learner/emergent bilingual, and newcomer students.
Refugee Educator Foundations of Practice for K-12 Instructional Coaches, Mentors, Principals, & Other Education Leadership Staff
This course, designed by educators for educators, provides essential resources, knowledge, mindsets, and skills necessary to cultivate academic achievement and ensure wellbeing for refugee, immigrant, multilingual learner/emergent bilingual, and newcomer students. As a foundations course, it allows education leaders (from instructional or academic coaches, to mentors, to principals, to district or state specialists) to review relevant fields of research and theory, revisit best practices, and develop their toolkits to support teachers and other school staff who are working directly with refugee, and other culturally and linguistically diverse, learners.