Professional Development

At Soy La Esperanza, we believe that training and professional development activities should be done over time and should be completed in tandem with other opportunities for growth (Bezrukova et al, 2016; Flores, Claeys, Gist, Clark, & Villareal, 2015). There’s no singular training that will make leaders more culturally responsive; rather, it is an experience that takes shape over time. We listen to and cater to the organizations that we work with and co-develop those experiences understanding where members of that community are at in their personal and professional journeys.

• Helping students/schools build and own their narrative

• Building a culturally responsive community for your MLLs

  • Strategic Planning based on the context of the school

• Building a culturally responsive schedule for your MLLs

  • Creating schedules for MLLs based on their language levels from an equity standpoint

• Building culturally responsive outcomes for your MLLs

  • Creating attainable goals for your MLLs

  • Creating culturally responsive classrooms through backwards planning

• Leading for justice

  • Creating a vision/mission that enables ALL students to succeed that goes beyond equity, into justice, and shatters and dismantles oppressive systems and structures (more district-oriented)