As an educator, what kinds of questions should you be asking to ensure that every person who walks onto your campus feels a sense of belonging? SmallBites LLC can help you identify why students and teachers are not getting desired teaching and learning results so that you can find and implement real solutions for real schools–one small bite at a time.
What kinds of questions should you be asking as an educator to ensure that everyone who walks onto your campus feels welcome and included? SmallBites LLC can help you move beyond diversity and equity conversations so that you can find and implement real solutions for real students–one small bite at a time.
SmallBites LLC provides engaging, non-provocative sessions that will help you effectively make strategic mindset, curriculum and protocol changes that transform student outcomes. Whether your goal is to better understand and teach students from diverse populations or just to help your students become more empathetic and respectful, SmallBites LLC has an option to meet your professional development needs.
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Born in a Negro hospital and raised in a multi-generational home on first hand stories of the ‘chitterling circuit’, lynchings and segregated restaurants and stores; Hedreich knows intimately about this country’s struggle to emerge from a “separate but equal” system. She knows what it’s like when ‘norm’ = ‘not like me’, even though in her neighborhood and in her church, everyone did look like her.
At school she was loved, but she also saw good-hearted teachers struggle to relate to her because having someone around who wasn’t White was new and different. To compensate, Hedreich grew up code switching–adjusting forms of social expression– like many students who belong to the non-dominant culture. A life balanced between two worlds was her norm well into adulthood and the lessons she’s learned in that dance have served her well.
As an educator and consultant, Hedreich has been able to use her experiences as a student from the non-dominant culture and a Black educator in often mostly White spaces to help frame and guide conversations on how we other.
Her research and her years in both homogeneous and diverse classrooms has enabled her to convert those experiences into vital lessons for today’s educator.
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