Cultural Responsiveness Setting Up for 2020

Cultural Responsiveness Growth for 2020

At the beginning of the year, staff gathered in the week prior to students starting to set up for a successful new year.  Part of these days was a session I held around Cultural Responsiveness.  

We had a recap of the practices we aim to embed in our school culture, shared how this links to how the planning and assessment for 2020 has been structured, participated in a survey using Padlet to reflect on our successes and next steps, created mind maps for possible opportunities for cultural learning, set personal goals and determined what questions and information we wanted to gather about our learners in order for us to provide a culturally responsive curriculum and school environment.

My next steps are to complete planning and links to resources, create opportunities for whānau hui, set dates for cultural events, experiences and celebrations and devise a plan to set up systems for supports for staff growth in confidence and capabilities.