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

Strengthening Our Diverse Schools, Workplaces and Communities

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Eileen’s new book – Innovative Voices in Education: Engaging Diverse Communities

Learn what it takes  to engage students and families from diverse cultures and  improve student success.

Brimming with insights, resources and strategies from 17 ground-breaking educators and community leaders around the world. Find out more at: InnovativeVoicesinEducation.com

What are your challenges?

  • 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?
  • Is your workplace filled with people from different cultures and backgrounds who lack the skills to collaborate and learn from each other?
  • Does your leadership need to increase its cultural competence?

Eileen Kugler can help you strategically break through these challenges, leading to increased success for all. She will give you the tools to build a strong vibrant diverse school, community, and workplace.

Eileen brings unique credentials with hands-on experience of putting research into practice. She is an international thought leader on engaging students and families of diverse backgrounds, a critical link to student success. Eileen brings a new perspective to workplace diversity and inclusion – sharing lessons learned on cultural competence and generational differences from education, the first-line of diversity.

Learn how to break through myth-perceptions, value and leverage difference!

Contact Eileen today for:

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

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“The inspirational conversation you led about cultural competency in public education was, to say the least, inspirational. While the audience was diverse in a multitude of ways, you created a safe space for an honest exchange of thoughts and ideas.”
-Joy Ford Austin, Executive Director, Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Discover innovative – and effective  - strategies to transforming your school, community or workplace. Contact Eileen today! Start the conversation right now – call 703-644-3039

“eloquent and inspiring”

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.

Supporting literacy in rural South Africa: Creating a library for a township school!

Eileen and husband Larry volunteer each summer at A.V. Bukani Primary School in rural South Africa to build literacy. Seeing only a handful of books in the school, they organized a Library Project to bring 25,000  books — donated, sorted, and labeled by volunteers in the Washington, DC area — to this school.  The excitement in the entire community was palpable as the library became a reality in August 2010.  Read more about Eileen’s work in South Africa, her home on the other side of the globe.


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    Ed Week Commentary: Families: The Key to Ending ‘College Mismatch’

    Eileen’s Blog: Acting “right” – whose culture dictates what we say and how we act
    How many times do people feel uncomfortable, feel like outsiders, because they don’t have the right words or act the right way? Sometimes they don’t know what is expected of them. Sometimes they act they way they were taught assuming that is appropriate. But the big question is who decides what is right? (more..)

    Engaging Families in School by Valuing Their Dreams

    
We do have hopes and dreams for our children. But no one ever asked us about them and we did not know how to help our children.” Those were the words of a grandmother raising her grandchildren in a rural Black township in South Africa. The group of some 50 family members came to be part of a parent engagement project I had the great fortune to lead. (more...)

    Diverse school or one with academic challenge? A false choice!

    
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. 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. (more...)

    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.

    Article: Helping immigrant and refugee students succeed: It’s not just what happens in the classroom (a version of this article appeared in the November 2009 issue of Kappan)

    
Immigrant and refugee students face challenges beyond learning a new language, with many carrying the trauma of past experiences. However, once in the US, they benefit from being part of close-knit families and caring communities. If schools can build trusting partnerships with parents and extended families students will benefit both academically and socially.

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