Multicultural Education

Lincoln County Multicultural Education

Multicultural Plan Development Team: Dee Cockrille, Bill Elkins, Vickie Linville, Donna McComas, Rod Hoover, Sonya Dunlap, Janet Ward, Andy Banfi, Rebecca Wiley, Jill Limley, Becky Grass, John Shimp

What is Multicultural Education?

Multicultural education is a transformative movement in education that produces critically thinking and socially active members of society. It is not simply a change of curriculum or the addition of an activity. It is a movement that calls for new attitudes, new approaches, and a new dedication to laying the foundation for the transformation of society.

Philosophy & Vision

Philosophy Statement
Lincoln County School's multicultural education program promotes a learning community with democratic values and beliefs that create an environment of mutual respect in an ever changing intercultural society.

Vision Statement for Teaching
The Lincoln County Board of Education's multicultural education philosophy promotes a comprehensive approach for presenting a global understanding of the world. The entire educational community will promote democratic values and beliefs that affirm the experiences and histories of diverse groups and exemplify social justice, equality and the human dignity of each student.

Curriculum Goals

Lincoln County Schools
Multicultural Education Goals
PK-12

Goal 1: Provide an instructional climate that manifests the ideals and practices of social justice.

Objective:

Strategies to Achieve Objective

  • Responsibility

  • Time Frame

  • Accountability

  • To increase awareness of diversity and multicultural education issues.

  • Develop philosophy and overarching goals to guide county multicultural education plan and create teaching opportunities to examine the issues of harassment, intimidation, sexual violence, bullying and violence.

County Multicultural Education Curriculum Team

2012, ongoing

Multicultural Education County Plan Approval by Administration.

  • Encourage zero tolerance for racial, sexual, religious, ethnic harassment or violence.

Central Office Administrators/Teachers/Counselors/Support Staff

  • Conduct interviews/review lesson plans/observe classrooms by principals throughout 2012, ongoing.

  • Foster attitudes of understanding, acceptance, and respect.

  • Provide professional development to all staff during one non-instructional day and/or during continuing education days. All faculties will receive a minimum of two hours of multicultural education training each year.

Administration/RESA/ LSIC Partners

Assessment of efforts will occur yearly. At the end of 2012, a review of the multicultural education plan will occur.

  • Develop sample multicultural lessons and units for PK-12 content areas and grade levels.

  • Multicultural Education Curriculum Team

  • Share current multicultural education efforts with parents and community.

  • All members of the educational community.

  • Promote self-examination of cross-cultural attitudes.

  • Examine institutional climate issues for transformational practices that support an inclusive environment.

  • Understand the diverse cultural influences impacting school, community, state, county, world, etc.

  • Familiarize all county personnel with the WVDE’s policy on Multicultural Education.

Goal 2: Promote the inclusion of multicultural education and diversity issues in the curriculum.

Objective:

  • Strategies to Achieve Objective

  • Responsibility

  • Time Frame

  • Accountability

  • Staff will infuse multicultural elements into curriculum efforts to create an inclusive, active, safe and caring environment.

  • West Virginia Department of Education content standards will be used in all curriculum efforts to create an inclusive, active, safe and caring instructional environment.

Central Office Administrators/Teachers/Counselors/Support Staff

  • Staff will meet to discuss multicultural education issues in C&I and enrichment activities for systematic renewal of current efforts.

  • Develop multicultural curriculum activities for programmatic levels: PK-4, 5-8 and 9-12.

Administration/RESA/LSIC Partners

  • Develop faculty awareness of their own efforts toward promoting multicultural education through continuous curriculum evaluation.

Multicultural Education Curriculum Team

  • Review by designated school teams of the scope and impact of curriculum efforts in multicultural education.

  • Provide multicultural education resources for the staff to increase efforts toward social justice including a county multicultural website.

Professional Development Team members.

  • Create lessons and activities to assist students in developing positive attitudes towards differences, commonalities, and prejudice reduction.

All members of the educational community.

  • Review efforts through Classroom Walkthrough process already designed by Lincoln County Schools.

  • Facilitate opportunities to examine the attitudes, beliefs, values, and practices shared by the classroom and community of learners.

  • Create classroom lessons that raise awareness of harassment, violence, intimidation, bullying, discrimination and other inappropriate forms of conduct.

Goal 3: Utilize teaching strategies to promote equity oriented teaching.

Objective:

  • Strategies to Achieve Objective

  • Responsibility

  • Time Frame

  • Accountability

  • Teaching strategies will include the voices and experiences of all students to prepare them for an intercultural society and workplace.

  • Create opportunities to utilize project- based learning.

Multicultural Education Curriculum Team

2012, ongoing

  • Conduct interviews/review lesson plans/observe classroom by principal.

  • Emphasize the integration of learning skills and multicultural education which expose biases, stereotypes, inaccuracies and marginalization of underrepresented groups.

Classroom teacher

  • Yearly assessment by staff.

  • Include a contemporary context for teaching through the incorporation of relevant examples.

All members of the education community.

  • Draw on students’ cultural experiences and knowledge.

Administration

  • Create instructional interactions that facilitate dialogue based upon student- constructed knowledge which exemplifies the democratic ideal of social justice, equality and human dignity of all students and prepares them to work toward these ideals.

Professional Development Team

  • Provide opportunities for teacher and student reflection and collaboration about equity and social justice issues.

  • Integrate multicultural education instructional tools into classroom pedagogical strategies to involve students in thinking critically, solving problems, questioning the status quo, creating increased sensitivity to and awareness of different cultures.

Goal 4: Provide ongoing professional development to support multicultural education goals and objectives.

Objective:

  • Strategies to Achieve Objective

  • Responsibility

  • Time Frame

  • Accountability

  • Include the integration of multicultural education as part of the overall vision for student achievement.

  • Initiate assessment of the scope and impact of current efforts toward implementation of Policy 2410 and Policy 2421 in order to determine professional development needs.

County Administration/RESA II

Multicultural Curriculum Planning Team

2012

  • Evaluation forms

  • Create an oversight committee charged with introducing, implementing and monitoring the multicultural curriculum plan at each school site.

Designated Focus Team

  • Designated by school

  • Introduce multicultural education plan to all members of the Lincoln County educational community.

Multicultural Education Curriculum Team/County Administration

September 28, 2012
County

  • Provide professional development to all staff during the non-instructional day and/or during continuing education days. All faculties will receive a minimum of two hours of multicultural education training.

Professional Development Team

Fall 2012
County

  • Offer online professional development in the area of multicultural education with graduate credit and noncredit options.

RESA II/MU

2012
RESA II

Goal 2004:

  • Service Personnel - Refresher and introduction to multicultural education plan.

  • Awareness/Accountability - School designate a focus team to verify implementation.

  • Professional Development - Provide professional development for all teachers and administrators to

  • introduce the multicultural education curriculum and provide professional congruent explanation of what multicultural education is including the components of content integration, teaching respect and active learning strategies.

  • Continuing Education could follow on ISE days through 2012-2013.

Professional Development

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
PROPOSED TRAINING & OVERSIGHT

MCE training schedule to insure that all employees understand the adopted MCE program and their role in delivering instruction and the establishment of an oversight team. 

Date

Time

Personnel

Trainers

MCE School Contact and Oversight Suggested Members

(Responsibilities To Follow).

  • Harts PK-8

  • Principal, Kimberly Blair

  • Ranger Elementary

  • Principal, Christina Napier

  • Guyan Valley Middle

  • Principal, Brittany Porter

  • West Hamlin Elementary

  • Principal, Rodney Hoover

  • LCHS

  • Principal, Polly Smith

  • Hamlin PK-8

  • Principal, Lori Huffman

  • Duval PK-8

  • Principal, Mary Ann Patton

  • Midway Elementary

  • Principal, Sue McComas