Identifying and Removing Obstacles for Black Students with Special Needs

Course Description Are you ready to make a difference in the lives of underserved Black Students with Special Needs? Change agency begins with awareness, knowledge, and skill. In this self-paced course, teachers and school staff will recognize personal and professional biases, relationships between structures of racism and special education, relate empathy for ignorance to strategies for equity, and relegate evidence-based and privileged best practices to the most marginalized students with special needs: Black students. Objectives Teachers will be able to: Analyze data and recognize disparities and challenges among boys and girls across all special education boys and girls, specifically, Black, White, Latinx and Native American Indian. Apply the idea of best teaching and advocate practices to their classrooms to better support struggling students to reach their potential. Begin to assess/unpack/reflect on their own individual identities and cultures, including influences on teaching