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 increase student success. She will give you the tools to build a strong vibrant multicultural community, within the school walls and beyond. Learn how to build positive school culture and engage students and families of every background!
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. She is an international expert in engaging families of diverse backgrounds, a critical link to student success.
To solve the critical issues of today and tomorrow, we must break through 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
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“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 where students of every background succeed. Contact Eileen today!
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American School Boards Journal
“recommended for all parents, teachers, and professors of education…”
American Library Association
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.
Thanks for supporting our school libary in South Africa!
We did it — and I do mean WE! A shipment of 25,000 of books donated, sorted, and labeled by volunteers in the Washington, DC area will become a library for A.V. Bukani Primary School in rural South Africa this summer!
Creating this library was far more of an undertaking than my husband Larry and I ever imagined. We remained committed to the concept that no book would be included if it wasn’t good enough for our own children; and that the books needed to be library-ready or they would just sit in boxes. We could never have done that without enormous help from dedicated volunteers. Some were long-time friends. Some were new friends we met through this process, many who joined us after reading about the project in the Washington Post. We feel blessed to have worked alongside each one.
We also appreciate the extraordinary donations that supported this project, including the shipping costs. Most donors told us that they appreciated the direct connection they had to the recipients. Larry and I watched the books being boxed and shipped — and we will watch the boxes opened and the books held in the hands of the students in this community.
To learn more, visit www.KuglersInSouthAfrica.blogspot.com
This library will certainly change lives in this community for decades to come. From our volunteer visits to the school, we have come to love the students, teachers, and families. It is a community lacking in material resources, but so rich in human resources. These quality books will help the bright minds of these students bloom!