Courageous Conversations about Race in Broward County Public Schools

Check out NPR affiliate KQED Mindshift's recent article and podcast. The article provides an in-depth look into how Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) pioneered a framework and systemwide initiative to ensure that all staff were trained in the course, Courageous Conversations about Race, PCG's online program for educators with Glenn E. Singleton. The podcast includes multiple interviews with course participants and district leadership. It also highlights the district’s increased literacy rates among third-grade students, decreased discipline disparities, and other positive equity outcomes following course completion.

Course Description

Glenn Singleton explores how race affects your students’ lives and your professional practice.

Deepen your understanding of the need for personal racial consciousness and the importance of engaging in the Protocol for Courageous Conversations about Race. Gain the knowledge and skills to understand and examine the impact of race on student achievement. Learn how to talk about race in ways that build bridges of understanding that lead to effective action.

This course includes videos of authentic classroom practice, a coach to provide personalized feedback, and flexibility to engage with the content on your schedule.

Syllabus

Courageous Conversations About Race

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Required Book

Each student will receive a copy of Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Second Edition, in the mail upon purchase of the course.

Course Presenter

Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous Conversation™, a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity™, the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Singleton is the President and Founder of Pacific Educational Group (PEG), an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, business, law enforcement, and community organizing.

Partner Profile

Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PCG has nearly 2,000 professionals in more than 50 offices around the US, in Canada and in Europe. PCG’s Education practice offers consulting services and technology solutions that help schools, school districts, and state education agencies/ministries of education to promote student success, improve programs and processes, and optimize financial resources.