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Registration for the Fall 2025 Implementing a Culturally Responsive Practice Workshop is Open!

Register During our workshop participants collaborated as a Professional Learning Community (PLC) to develop their skills as culturally responsive practitioners with the goal of increasing student achievement levels for ALL students in their classes. This three-session workshop series covers: Understanding the impact of culture on teaching and developing cultural competency. A thorough understanding of [...]

By |2025-09-21T18:47:01-04:00September 21st, 2025|Blog|0 Comments
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Fall 2023 Implementing a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Workshop

Join us for our unique culturally responsive pedagogy workshop. Participants collaborate in a professional learning community to learn and practice new strategies designed to increase student achievement. Upon successful completion of the workshop teachers earn 3 MSDE continuing education units. Dates: October 7th & 21st and November 4th & 18th Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm Location: [...]

By |2023-08-10T00:32:51-04:00August 10th, 2023|CRP, Events|0 Comments
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2021-2022 Kamau Imani Parker Morrison Teacher Scholarship Winners!

The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute is pleased to announce its winners for the 2021-22 Kamau Imani Parker Morrison Teaching Scholarship. This year's pool had two applicants with very deserving qualifications so the committee decided to award the scholarship to both recipients, Alicia Hewlett and Paiton Moloy. Alicia Hewlett is completing her training at [...]

By |2021-10-18T21:17:34-04:00October 18th, 2021|Blog, Education, KIPMTS|0 Comments
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Fall 2018 Implementing a Culturally Responsive Practice Workshop

We invite all Maryland educators to join us this fall in our Implementing a Culturally Responsive Practice professional development workshop. In this three day (Oct. 13, Nov. 10 and Dec. 8) workshop you will gain the skills and knowledge needed to implement and develop as a culturally responsive educator. Participants will: gain a thorough understanding [...]

By |2018-08-15T21:04:28-04:00August 15th, 2018|CRP, Education, Events|0 Comments
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Cultivating Culturally Responsive Practices at Southwest Academy

During the 2015-16 school year, the William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute partnered with Southwest Academy (Baltimore County, MD) to conduct our year long Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Practice teacher training. We worked with a core group of teachers from across a variety of disciplines to assist in their growth as culturally responsive practitioners. The [...]

By |2019-10-24T09:28:19-04:00July 10th, 2017|CRP|0 Comments
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Challenges of Teaching African American History in US Public Schools: Reflections on 30 Years of Teaching

This post is based on a roundtable discussion I participated in at the 2015 African Heritage Studies Association Conference in New York City, NY. My oldest son, Akil Parker, was also a member of that panel speaking on his experience as a math teacher. Introduction This paper is a reflection on my more than 30 [...]

By |2019-10-24T09:28:19-04:00June 23rd, 2017|Blog, Education|0 Comments
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“Cultivating” Culturally Responsive Teachers at Southwest Academy

Through a generous donation to The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute, Inc. we have partnered with Southwest Academy Middle School in Baltimore County to provide seven teachers with our year long "Cultivating a Culturally Responsive Practice" teacher training. Our philosophy that the most important relationship as regards student success is that between the teacher [...]

By |2015-11-14T19:36:36-05:00November 14th, 2015|Blog, Newsletter|0 Comments
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Exciting News from Chicago’s Banner Schools

In July of 2015 we visited Banner Academy in Chicago, Illinois for a site visit to observe how teachers were preparing to implement a new instructional model that The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute, Inc. is considering using in our Third Millennium Schools. The Inquiry Bridge model is an integrated approach that focuses on [...]

By |2015-11-14T19:19:35-05:00November 14th, 2015|Newsletter|0 Comments
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“Teaching the 2015 Baltimore Uprising” Partnership

When the video of Freddie Gray's arrest went viral and the news of his death reverberated throughout the streets of Baltimore in late April of 2015 it was clear that before things got better they were going to get worse. Community organizers and city officials struggled to stay on top of the growing discontent of [...]

By |2019-10-24T09:28:19-04:00November 10th, 2015|Newsletter|0 Comments
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