There are multiple generations in the workforce today, each with its own strengths and perspectives. Understanding individuals in each generation, particularly the new entrants into the workforce, requires digging deeper than simplistic labels.
Understand the basic perspectives, skills, and knowledge of different generations in the workforce.
Explore diversity within the generations.
Develop strategies to end finger-pointing and instead leverage the strengths of each generation.
Research shows that family engagement is a powerful factor in student success. Yet many families remain disconnected from school. New strategies based on the needs and concerns of today’s diverse families help foster that vital connection.
Recognize why a family’s distance from school doesn’t mean disrespect or lack of interest.
Understand obstacles to parent partnerships based on culture, language, socio-economic group, and past experience.
Develop targeted engagement strategies that value parents’ dreams and insights, creating authentic two-way partnerships.
Each one of us carries assumptions from our own culture and life experience. These can limit the value we place on “the other,” limiting their growth as well as our own.
Recognize the lessons we can learn from unlikely sources if we are open to them.
Learn how we limit others’ growth, as well as our own, through hidden assumptions.
Diversity has been a fact of life in schools in the U.S. and other countries for decades. Research reveals that students in diverse schools think more deeply, collaborate more effectively, and are better problem solvers - but only in an environment that authentically values diverse perspectives.
A school with a mix of races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups can provide extraordinary enrichment – both academic and social. But it requires a courageous commitment to equity from every stakeholder to identify and overcome the inherent challenges.
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