DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION CONSULTING

Educational Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

Our Educational Consulting specialties include Equity & Culturally Responsive Training and Professional Development for PK-20. B2B Strategic Solutions, Inc. strives to work towards the elimination of systems that contribute to educational and social inequity.

We take pride in our ability to create a training environment that allows participants to better understand their students and the role that culture plays inside and outside of the classroom.

Our Team

With decades of experience, the B2B team of educators, psychologists and corporate trainers focus on creating content that ensures measurable indicators of success.
Our experts will conduct an initial needs analysis to align solutions to internal outcomes that are sustainable and scalable so that systemic and long-lasting change is possible.

Strategies include:

1.) Development of internal policy documents and codes of conduct.

2.) Implicit Bias training that have been critical for educators and administrators.

3.) Classroom sessions that are proven effective in reducing disciplinary actions.

Learning Outcomes

• Discover the critical connections between student learning, culturally responsive practices and neuroscience that makes social-emotional learning (SEL) and development central to equity
• Identify the implicit biases that impact educational and institutional culture and climate and re-focus the cultural lens that influences teaching and learning
• Build understanding of social-emotional expression and create an SEL “playbook” of strategies that leverage collective impact
• Create systems that promote cultural responsiveness and culturally relevant pedagogy to increase student agency and foster academic success for all students

Who should attend?

• PK-20 Educators and Educational Stakeholders
• District & Institutional Leadership and Administration
• Community, Municipal and Business Partners

Through deep collaboration we can:

1.) Identify systems of inequality
The focus here is to help participants identify systems of deficit thinking that has been shown to have negative impact on student outcomes. Instead we want to shift the paradigm towards learning partnerships through authentic connection. In addition, we will examine how to shift instructional delivery to be more culturally responsive.

2.) Provide scalable solutions
Cultural responsiveness is more than creating multicultural content. Instead, it is a focus on developing one’s ability to process information through the lens of others in real time. We will identify the processes for this type of responsiveness and how it can be used as a tool to make content more authentically relevant. These lessons will leverage culture as a framework for processing new content.

3.) Operationalize equitable practices
By examining the connection between social-emotional well-being and performance we will explore how to create an emotionally and intellectually safe space for students and teachers. Going beyond presenting the principles of diversity to understand how we can integrate relational aspects into instruction to help students build an authentic connection that will have a positive impact on student performance.

Courses Offered