Understanding The Components Of Care

If thirty three percent of teachers are leaving the classroom within the first three years and forty six percent leave within the first five years, we must change our practices to support the teachers persistence in the field.

  • Enhance & Maintain

    Learn about the maintenance on enhancement of caring that is missing from our educational systems.

  • Leadership

    How do we as educators introduce the idea of care into the classroom being one of the most significant leader in the student's life

  • Individuality

    How can we help the students feel cared for towards their academic & future growth. Respecting them as an independent individual.

  • Communication

    How to provide redirection, encouragement, positive reinforcement and praise to students.

  • Accountability

    How to hold the students accountable with care and increased support.

  • Navigate

    How to build a culturally relevant curriculums of care for the students to navigate their own destinations and thrive.

The Full Curriculum

The components of care is one course with multiple modules addressing the need for care in our classrooms and in our schools. The modules address the nine themes identified in the scholarship by Dr. Didi Watts. The six modules are:

  • Introduction to Care

  • Themes of Care

  • Care in Educational Experiences

  • Care in the Classroom

  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Classroom

  • Bringing it All Together: Teaching as Activism