Cultivating Learning Communities of Grace is a course for instructional leaders and school administrators in the consideration of both school and classroom cultures. Course content will include attention to diversity, cultural complexity and increasingly blurred markers of origin and ethnicity, racial justice, and restorative practices.
This course seeks to help students find clarity in answers to the following questions:
How do we awaken our students’ knowledge, creativity, and critical reflective capacities in our schools and classrooms?
How do racism and other forms of oppression underlie achievement gaps and alienation within our schools?
How can classroom learning be linked to larger movements seeking to effect change in community?/How can school culture be a vehicle for social change?
How do we cultivate learning communities of grace in our schools?
What is the relationship between the daily behaviour of educational leaders and the cultures of schools?
