Course Description

The goal of this course is to bring families, youth, and educators together from across the region to build transformative relations and engage in cross-cultural and racial equity conversations that promote capacity for actions. The 2 parts are founded in: 

- Self & Community Everyday Advocacy

- Cultural/ Identity Responsiveness & Sustainability

- Engagement, Research & Evaluation

- Systems Thinking

Part 1 Building Context: Watch a spotlighted video including an overview of our collective qualitative data of previous conference/meetings to build context and process around the guiding questions we will engage with during our part 2 in person session.
Part 2 Learning Exchange & Action: Move our learning into deep conversations about our year long advocacy/learning using identified collective learning around themes and conversations; engage in co-design workshops geared towards actionable items.  

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the 2-Part Community Conference, participants will be able to:

• Understand how collective and individual perspectives and decisions influence youth, families and communities.
• Analyze educational structures to seek understanding and transform towards inclusiveness and equity. 
• Recognize various cross-cultural and multilingual family/youth perspectives on what it means to be seen, heard and valued. 
• Evaluate how family and community can improve students' experiences and outcomes through actionable transformative items.
• Reflect on their learning process to support their individual and collective developing learning continuum. 
• Apply the co-design process to develop proposals/initiatives/community cafes that support their community needs.  

Course Details

Part 1: Prior to in-person session; Flexible (virtual 0.5 hrs)

Part 2: February 11, 2023; 9:00am - 2:30pm (in person 5.5 hrs)

Total: 6 clock hours