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16th Annual Multicultural Leadership Institute
Building Relationships through Cultural Proficiency for Improving Student Achievement

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at Southwest High School
The A.M. session will be held from 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. The P.M. session will be held from 12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. There is a 550 person registration limit per session.

The 16th Annual Multicultural Leadership Institute Keynote speakers are Dr. Ray Terrell and Dr. Barbara Heuberger, educators and authors. Dr. Terrell is the Assistant Dean for Research and Diversity and a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Dr.Heuberger is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Miami University Oxford, Ohio. They will present “Building Relationships through Cultural Proficiency for Improving Student Achievement”.

Registration

Credit

3.5 Hours of flex (For district or building flex if approved by principal or district administrator)

Questions?

Please contact Lameakia Collier (lcollie@lps.org) in the LPS Multicultural Department. Her phone number is 402-436-1605.

Keynote Speakers

Raymond Terrell, Ed. D.

Raymond Terrell is the Assistant Dean for Research and Diversity and a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has previously served as an English teacher, elementary principal, and assistant superintendent in Ohio public schools. His higher education career found him serving in the department of Educational Administration at Texas A & M University and at California State University Los Angeles where he also served as Dean of the School of Education. He has over 40 years of professional experience with diversity and equity issues. He is married to Eloise Terrell and they have two grown children, William and Dina.

Barbara Heuberger, Ed.D.

Dr. Barbara Heuberger Rose is an Associate Professor at Miami University. Her background includes working with both preservice and inservice teachers on diversity related issues, such as the impact of teacher identity on students. She teaches honors and first year seminars on dominant privilege and the cultural context of integrity, as well as a senior level course for education majors. She is the author of a diversity textbook entitled Cultural Diversity: Building Skills for Awareness, Understanding and Application. She has published diversity-related work in the Journal of College Teaching, and has made numerous professional presentations at the National Association of Multicultural Education and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, among others.

Multicultural Education at LPS

Multicultural Education in Lincoln Public Schools is described in district policy as:

Multicultural education is the identification, selection and infusion of specific knowledge, skills and attitudes for the purpose of: Affirming the culture, history and contributions that shall include but not be limited to African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans; Challenging and eliminating racism, prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and stereotyping based on race; Valuing multiple cultural perspectives and Providing all students with opportunities to “see themselves” in the educational environ- ment in positive ways and on a continuing basis.

To promote and support multicultural education within Lincoln Public Schools, it shall also be the policy and practice of this district to create opportunities to achieve academically and socially in an educational environment in which all students and staff understand and respect the racial and cultural diversity and interdependence of members of our society.

Approved by the Lincoln Board of Education on April 6, 1993.

The district’s plan to implement Rule 10/LB 922 is as follows:

1. Curriculum and Instruction Infusion: This component will identify (a) the curricu- lum objectives related to African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans; (b) the curriculum objectives related to human relations; (c) the skills which staff will need to teach from multiple cultural perspectives.

2. Climate and Environment: This component will focus on assessment, improvement and maintenance of a multicultural climate and environment in each building in the district.

3. Staff Development: This component will provide support to all aspects of the multicul- tural effort, including the creation of a foundation multicultural experience which will be expected of all LPS staff. Additionally, the staff development component will create a human relations module focusing on the skills and knowledge necessary to “place special emphasis on human relations and sensitivity toward all races,” a requirement of Rule 10.

4. Assessment: This component will provide ways to review the progress toward the goals of all components of the plan by collecting, analyzing and publishing a broad variety of data.