DIVERSITY AWARENESS

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DIVERSITY AWARENESS
by Robert Robinson ILT, Barnes Education
Center
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Norms

• Paradigm Shifting
• Practice Non-Judgmental Listening
• Safe Environment/confidentiality
• Address comments to the group
• No easy answers or checklists
• Assume Good Will
• Be Professional

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What People NoticeJane Elsea The 4 Minute
Sell

• Skin Color
• Gender
• Age
• Appearance
• Facial Expressions
• Eye Contact
• Movement
• Personal Space

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What is Diversity?

• Differences and Similarities
• Brought to or developed in the workplace
• Includes everyone in the Organization
• Includes each potential student and staff member

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Practice NON-JUDGEMENTAL LISTENING

• Quiet Hands
• Quiet Feet
• Quiet, focused EYES
• NO non-verbal cueing while listening

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ONE WORD AND STORIES

• Tell someone about the first time you felt
  different.
• What is one word to describe it?

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LEARNING POINT?

• Everyone has a story to tell
• Everyone has felt different
• What we remember from 30 years ago that made a
  lasting impression,
• Students are experiencing and living NOW.
• What lesson will they remember from us 30 years
  from now?

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Primary Secondary Dimensions of Diversity
Work Background
Geographic Location
Income
Sexual Orientation
Gender
Age
Parental Status
Marital Status
Physical Qualities
Race
Ethnicity
Military Experience
Education
Religious Beliefs
Secondary
Primary
Loden Rosener, Workforce America/1991
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What is Managing Diversity?

• A managerial process for creating a school
  environment that allows each and every member to
  contribute their fullest, in pursuit of
  organizational objectives such as..

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Objectives

• No Child Left Behind
• Freedom from Harassment
• Freedom from bullying and adult bullying
• Title I
• Title II
• Other?

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Primary Secondary Dimensions of Diversity
Work Background
Geographic Location
Income
Sexual Orientation
Gender
Age
Parental Status
Marital Status
Physical Qualities
Race
Ethnicity
Military Experience
Education
Religious Beliefs
Secondary
Primary
Loden Rosener, Workforce America/1991
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What is a 3rd dimension of Diversity?

• Systems Diversity
• School climate
• Work environment
• Leadership style

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Human Diversity Characterized by
physical differences, personal preferences, or
life experiences, e.g. sex, race, and age
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Cultural Diversity Characterized by
beliefs, values, and personal characteristics,
e.g. cross-cultural relationship/communication,
workstyle, and ethics/values
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Systems Diversity Characterized by the
organizational structure and management systems,
e.g. teamwork, empowerment, school climate, and
employee work ethic
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4 Questions...

• What diversity do I see?
• How am I managing it?
• What is it costing me?
• What is it costing my students?

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Diversity

• Means welcoming all people to the workplace
  without regard to factors unrelated to job
  performance
• Welcoming all students to the school without
  regard to factors unrelated to class and
  behavioral performance
• It includes all the human characteristics that
  make us unique and valuable as individuals
• It includes everyone and excludes no one

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STAGES OF CHANGE
Long
SOCIETAL
GROUP
TIME
KNOWLEDGE
Short
DIFFICULTY
Low
High
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Which students do you welcome?

• Red Yellow Black White
• Gay Straight
• Male Female
• Cute Ugly ?

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What is your hot button?

• Gay Straight PUNK FREAK GOSSIP
• Male Female NORMAL WEIRD
• Cute Ugly Quiet Funny Silly
• Red Yellow Black White Brown

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How do you manage and resolve issues surrounding
diversity?

• handout

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Closing Thought

• O Great Spirit, teach me to never judge a man
  until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.
  -Navajo Prayer
• Closing video

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Primary Secondary Dimensions of Diversity
Work Background
Geographic Location
Income
Sexual Orientation
Gender
Age
Parental Status
Marital Status
Physical Qualities
Race
Ethnicity
Military Experience
Education
Religious Beliefs
Secondary
Primary
Loden Rosener, Workforce America/1991
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STAGES OF CHANGE
Long
SOCIETAL
GROUP
TIME
KNOWLEDGE
Short
DIFFICULTY
Low
High
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Shift in Mind-Set
Skills Competencies
Performance Results
Mind-set
Mind-set
Behaviors
Results
Cultural transformation is reflected in
organizational mind-set and behaviors.
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Robinsons client list(Robinson has delivered
workshops to the following.)

• Merck, Inc.
• IBM
• Dow
• Kellogg
• US Postal Service
• Monsanto/Solutia
• AT T
• Lucent Technologies
• Innovations International
• 21st Century Consulting

• SAPA Student Assistance Professionals
  Association
• Cobb County School System
• Kennesaw State University
• SAEE Southeastern Association for Employment in
  Education
• Southern Association for Colleges and Schools

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Diversity Websitesand Resources

• http//www.innovint.com/index.htm
• http//www.innovint.com/consultants/robert_robinso
  n.asp
• http//www.store-innovint.com/
• http//www.21cc.cc/
• Here is a good website on "R.D. Laing's
  Bi-lateral spiral" http//physinfo.ulb.ac.be/cit_
  courseware/research/theories1.htm
• http//www.thiederman.com/
• 5 Theaters of the Mind The Brains Natural
  Learning System.
• The source is Barbara K. Givens, 2002,
  Teaching to the Brains Natural Learning Systems,
  ASCD. 1-800-933-2723.
• Other sources are cited as footnotes in each
  slide.