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Up one levelNovember 2010 EquitEE Corner
Environmental Education & Training Partnership (EETAP) Cultural Diversity & EE Information Installment EETAP's Fall 2010 installment presents views, challenges, questions, and assessment tools for examining the long-term commitment needed to become inclusive. Please find below the links for this installment on the NAAEE website.
September 2010 EquitEE Corner
Environmental Education & Training Partnership (EETAP) Cultural Diversity & EE Information Summer 2010 installment examines the leader's role in helping organizations become more inclusive. Links of particular interest are the Vignette-"Walking the Talk," which offers reflection questions about your organization's inclusive practices, as well as the mini-lesson on leadership characteristics. Please click the webpage below to view the summer 2010 installment.
August 2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article "Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Inclusivity"by The Urban Institute and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. The article can be found at the website below. Below are discussion questions to ask yourself as you are reading and to bring up to others in your organization/networks. 1) What characteristics make communities environmentally sustainable and inclusive? What are potential synergies and conflicts between inclusivity and environmental sustainability? 2) What are some examples of connecting inclusivity to environmental sustainability you've seen in your local community? Do you have any ideas on how environmental sustainability and inclusion can be encouraged in your community?
July 2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article: "Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Five Stages Toward Cultural Competence"by Jerome H. Hanley. The article can be found at the website below. Below are discussion questions to ask yourself as you are reading and to bring up to others in your organization/networks. 1) Reflect on the "Iceberg Model". What aspects in the Deep Culture section are part of your organizational culture and work environment? Are these aspects multicultural / inclusive of many cultures or homogenous? 2) Can your organization use any of the examples in the Cultural Precompetence and Competence sections to be more inclusive? 3) Can you come up with any other ways to make your work environment inclusive?
June 2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article: “The 10 Cs: A Model of Diversity Awareness and Social Change” by Patti DeRosa and Ulric Johnson. The article can be found at the website below. Below are discussion questions to ask yourself as you are reading and to bring up to others in your organization/networks. 1) Try to do an "inventory" in these 10 areas for yourself and your organization. 2) Which areas of the 5 Cs of Change are your organization doing well? Which areas could use some improvement? 3) Reflect on the "fundamental questions about human identity and experience" on page 2.
May2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article: “"Three Paradigms for Diversity Change Leaders." The article can be found at the website below. Below are activities/discussion questions to ask yourself as you are reading and to bring up to others in your organization/networks. 1) After reading the article, fill in the reflection chart on page 3; 2) What steps can you and/or your organization take to build a diversity coalition?; 3) What are some barriers to coalition building, and how can you overcome them?
April 2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article: “A Model for Personal Change." The article can be found at the website below. Below are activities/discussion questions to ask yourself as you are reading and to bring up to others in your organization/networks. 1) What stage do you think you’re in? Can you recall being in other stages before?; 2)What steps can you and/or your organization take to progress to another level of cultural competency?
March 2010 EquitEE Corner
Please read the article: "How to diversify environmentalism? The movement’s greatest challenge is its own lack of diversity?" by Marcelo Bonta. Below are activities/discussion questions to think about as you read this article and to share with your organization/networks. The article can be found at the link below. 1)In his Strategy to Diversify, Bonta names four major areas on which we must focus in order to initiate effective change. Which of these areas is our organization doing well already? In which areas do we have room for improvement?; 2) Is diversity a priority of our organization? If not, how do we go about engaging our leader(s) in this work? If so, what steps are we taking towards the goal of organizational inclusiveness?; 3) Who are our allies in diversity work? What relationships do we have with communities and organizations of color?