[EDEQUITY Equity Now] Resource on Equity competencies

From: Barbara A.Bitters (Barbara.Bitters@dpi.state.wi.us)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 17:21:31 EDT


Thanks (Kathy Johnson) for asking about equity competencies for educators.
My team is working on a draft of equity competencies for each of the new
teacher, administrator and counselor standards for a license in Wisconsin.
I am not ready to share that document--it is long and very drafty. I am
going to present This draft work at the AGELE conference in July.

In the late 1980's, I drafted a list of student equity competencies
(pages 33-350) and school competencies (pages 43-49) which were published
in
"Wisconsin Model for Sex Equity in Career and Technical Education revised
1993. This is the "purple book" from Wisconsin. If you would like a free
copy please send a mailing label to me by snail mail. (Barbara Bitters,
DPI,
P.O. Box 7841, Madison, WI 53707-7841)

I next ran across the concept of "cultural competence and competencies" in
the multicultural and diversity communities. The first article I read on
this is at: http://www.nysccc.org/T-Rarts/CultCompCont.html

To see some additional sites please visit,
Health Care
http://www.omhrc.gov/clas/
The National Center for Cultural Competence (in health care)
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/ncccpolicy3.html

Social Work
http://www.naswdc.org/pubs/standards/cultural.htm

Special Education
http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_integrated.htm#def

Mental Health
http://www.wiche.edu/MentalHealth/CCStandards/

"Culturally Responsive Teaching" from the New England Equity Assistance
Center (EAC)at Brown.
http://www.lab.brown.edu/tdl/tl-strategies/crt-principles.shtml

I believe that equity specialists must articulate and distribute equity and
diversity competencies related to the new state licensing structures that
are competency-based. I also know how hard this work is since "we" have
been
trying to create such a list in my team for two years!

P.S. sorry for the delay in responding, I was away from my computer for a
couple of days.

Barbara A. Bitters, Director
Equity Mission Team
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
P.O. Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
fax 608-267-0364
barbara.bitters@dpi.state.wi.us

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