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Beyond celebrating: Debunking myth-perceptions to build strong diverse schools and communities.
Embrace Diverse Schools

STRENGTHENING OUR DIVERSE MULTICULTURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES

  • Are the demographics of your community changing?
  • Do you hear concerns that diversity lowers school achievement?
  • Are families disconnected from school and from each other?

Eileen Kugler can help you face these challenges and build a strong vibrant community, within the school walls and beyond. Eileen brings unique credentials – the savvy professional skills of an honored communications expert coupled with more than a decade as a parent leader in one of the nation’s most diverse schools.

It’s time to break through the myth-perceptions about diversity!

Students who go to school with peers from different races, cultures, and economic groups learn 21st Century Skills:

  • They think more deeply and question more.
  • They are better problem solvers.
  • They know how to work in diverse teams.
  • They recognize different strengths in their peers.

Our diverse communities are vibrant and strong

  • Diverse neighbors bring new insights and perspectives.
  • We all benefit from a broader range of skills.
  • We can grow beyond our own experiences.

Contact Eileen today for:

  • Inspiring keynotes
  • Engaging content-rich workshops
  • Comprehensive consulting

“Thank you for your passion, your commitment to kids, to schools, to partnerships, to community participation, and most importantly, to diversity. Everyone walked away from the meeting refreshed and challenged.”
-Sue Ferguson, Chair National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education.

Discover the most effective strategies for transforming your school or neighborhood into the place you want it to be! Contact Eileen today!

“eloquent and inspiring”
American School Boards Journal

Debunking the Middle-Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids is changing the dialogue about diversity. Required reading in schools, universities, and community gatherings, it earned two national Book of the Year awards – from The National Association for Multicultural Education and from Delta Kappa Gamma International, the women educators’ honor society active in 14 countries. Read excerpts and reviews.

    Eileen discusses Debunking the Middle-Class Myth on the news.

    Eileen Delivers a keynote on the benefits of diversity

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  • About Eileen

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    An Interview with Award-Winning Author Eileen Gale Kugler at Ask Wendy
    I speak and write about the unique benefits that diversity brings schools and communities, which is a topic that nearly everyone is (finally) paying attention to. I help break through society’s “myth-perceptions” about race and culture, urging people to go beyond celebrating to advocating for diversity. (more at http://askwendy.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/2580/)

    Partnering with Immigrant and Refugee Families:

    Issue Brief, Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School by Eileen Kugler. Published by the Center for Health and Heath Care in Schools.

    Supporting the academic success of immigrant and refugee students often focuses on improving their knowledge of English. Yet the immigrant and refugee experience brings challenges beyond learning a new language, with many immigrant and refugee students living through traumatic experiences. However, once in the United States, they benefit from being part of close-knit families and caring communities. If the school can build trusting partnerships with parents and extended families, helping them adjust to their new lives and strengthening them in their roles as caregivers and family leaders, students will benefit.

    Webinar led by Eileen Kugler Helping immigrant and refugee students achieve school success: Partnering with families to support student mental health needs. Sponsored by The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
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    Eileen’s Blog:
    What's the best place for your child to go to school -- one with the social lessons of a diverse multicultural school or one that is acadmically challenging? That was the question posed on Twitter Moms by a mother who, like many parents, just wants what's best for her child http://www.twittermoms.com/forum/topics/debunking-the-middleclass-myth. The answer is easy -- it's a false choice! A well-run diverse school not only has social benefits, but it has academic enrichments, too. Students learn to think more deeply, to question more, to solve problems better when they are in class with peers who've had different life experiences. I've seen it first hand, and the research backs it up. (more...)

    In the News
    Eileen's op-ed piece “Why Are We Out to Destroy Our Diversity?” in the Washington Post.

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